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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students trace dinosaur stencils on drawing paper, then make dinosaur rubbings using stencils, crayons and paper. They write the names of the dinosaurs they draw. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 4th
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Students identify dinosaurs and their babies. They learn what a fossil is and make their own fossils. Full Review »
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- 1st - 2nd
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Students investigate how fossils help us discover the Earth's past. They explain what a fossil is. They explain how we use fossils to study the past. They draw a picture of a paleontologist finding a fossil. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 12th
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Students play the roles of paleontologists on a dig. They unearth a few fossils at a time and attempt to reconstruct the animal the fossils represent. Life forms of the past were in some ways very similar to life forms of today. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students work together to research dinosaur bones that were found in Oklahoma. They gather information and organize their data. They share their information with the class. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to cladistics, which organizes living things by common ancestry and evolutionary relationships. They see the similarities among existing organisms which provide evidence for evolution. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students search for fossils in a simulated archeology site and explore how paleontologists mark out a dig site. Full Review »
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- 5th - 10th
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Students define and investigate paleontology, research geological history of the Chesapeake Bay, review geological time line, and identify fossils of the Chesapeake Bay. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students see what paleontologists are and what their job is. They explain what fossils are and say names of different dinosaurs. They color in pictures that are tools of the paleontologist. Full Review »
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- 1st - 2nd
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Students discuss the work of a paleontologist and examine several fossils and books on paleontology. They use clay and Plaster of Paris to create a cast of an object and compare this activity to the formation of fossils in nature. Full Review »
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