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The Museo de la Ciencia in Valladolid has a new exhibition: Huellas, rastros y señales de la fauna salvaje de Castilla y León. Visitors will learn all about a part of the language used by nature to communicate with human beings.

Wildlife leave tracks and traces in nature that can give us lots of important information about the animals: they can tell us where and how an animal lives, what it eats, how it moves, about its habits and how it protects itself.

The exhibition aims to present and decode the traces that animals leave when interacting with their environments. Visitors will learn about mammals and how to obtain information from tracks, excrements, food waste, skins, skeleton, skulls and more. There will also be exhibits dedicated to birds, such as abandoned nests, replica eggs and wings, and colourful feathers. And finally, there will be a chance to make tracks in a sand bank and play a game using the sense of touch.

Huellas, rastros y señales de la fauna salvaje de Castilla y León will be open to the public until 21 June 2015. You can find more information here on the museum’s web page.

Use this video from the the Virtual Choir to celebrate the International Day of Music (01 October) with your learners.  The virtual, international choir is the creation of Eric Whitacre and this song, ‘Sleep’, includes the voices of 1999 singers from 58 countries.  All the members of the choir recorded themselves in their own homes.  Can your learners guess how the recording was created and where the singers came from? (Image taken from the Virtual Choir website)

Use these guidelines from the wikihow website to help your learners understand the process of becoming a musician, be it classical, pop or punk.  They will learn how to get started, see the importance of practice, understand the need to know about different types of music, find out how to learn to compose and even discover how to join a band.(Image taken from the wikihow website)