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- 9th - 12th
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Students combine their knowledge of evolution, geologic time, and dinosaurs into a discussion of how these three topics overlap with regard to dinosaur evolution in the Cretaceous period. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore the American-Mongolian paleontology expedition of Cretaceous fossil beds at Ukhaa Tolgod in the Gobi Desert. They present information about the life forms, tectonics, climate and geology of this time. Full Review »
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- 1st - 3rd
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Students make their own tooth impressions of a sharp and a flat tooth and compare the differences. They make impression of fossil teeth from dinosaurs comparing the sharp and flat teeth and learning about their uses. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students take a pre-test to show their prior knowledge of dinosaurs. Using the internet, they reasearch the time period in which they roamed the Earth. Focusing on the area of Connecticut, they compare and contrast the large and small dinosaurs in which bones were found. To end the lesson, they make dinosaur footprints out of clay or plaster. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students stud the concept of Pangaea by using Wegener's clues to construct a map of the continents joined together. They determine how fossil distribution can be used to enhance the study of continental drift. They locate the following and mark them on a world outline map; Urals, Alps, Iceland, San Andreas fault, Andes mountains, volcanoes in Italy. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students demonstrate how scientists use evidence to formulate hypotheses. They write an essay describing the Cretaceous and Paleocene time periods from the point of view of someone living in that time. In addition, they formulate hypotheses on the causes of the extinction of the dinosaur. Full Review »
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- 4th - 10th
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Students create a simple tool to visualize geologic time. They create knots to represent the K/T, P/T and Precambrian boundaries in a 4.6 meter string with each millimeter representing one million years. They then refer back to this tool often during a unit on geologic time. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 4th
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Students draw names of dinosaurs out of a hat and write a report about the one they picked. Students write a riddle about their favorite prehistoric animal, post it on a bulletin board, and have other guess which animal it is about. Students define the unknown words in the story. Students create time lines of when different types of dinosaurs lived. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students create a "TV" film about the geologic time line of the Earth including illustrations representing the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era as well as the four types of fossils. They draw conclusions about "What happened before," using fossils or charts and tables. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students create a classroom mural of the dinosaurs living in the Mesozoic era. They choose from a Triassic, Jurassic, or Cretaceous species to depict in the three panel mural. Each student researches and draws a different dinosaur species to scale. Full Review »
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