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- 3rd - 12th
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Students experience how difficult it is to interpret a paleontological discovery while being in a classroom environment. They use wooden models of selected dinosaurs to demonstrate a procedure a field paleontologist may use. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students have probably already studied dinosaurs in school, but they may not have learned much about the process by which paleontologists locate, excavate, and study dinosaurs. They write journal entries pretending they are on a dinosaur dig. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 12th
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Students demonstrate understanding of a model building. They demonstrate use of the problem solving process of putting unknown entities together in a sequential manner. They demonstrate how to answer questions related to an organism's structural a Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students act as paleontologists and carefully dig up dinosaurs that have been buried in a sand box or sand table. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 12th
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Students simulate a paleontological dig and construct a dinosaur. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students role play paleontologists and dig for dinosaur bones in a sand table. They complete their investigation booklets and discuss what body part their bone belongs to. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students are introduced to the type of evidence that is found at a typical dinosaur dig. They create rubbing casts of bone impressions on paper and, using bones, identify dinosaurs. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students explore dinosaurs that lived on earth millions of years ago. They analyze their many different characteristics. Students experience the different types of dinosaurs, the information they left behind, and their habitats. Students investigate how animals become extinct and compare dinosaurs to animals living today. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students engage in a role-play of a dinosaur excavation dig. They dig through sand to locate buried bones and then discuss the ethics of destroying buildings and other property to get at the fossil remains. 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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