PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fossilized Dinosaur Bones
This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features a variety of images of fossilized dinosaur bones, which provide evidence for the existence of these fascinating reptiles.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Geologic Time
A discussion of geologic time, how scientists use the concept, and how they have determined its span.
Other
Black Hills Institute of Geological Research: All About Fossils
The Black Hills Institute of Geological Research is a world-renowned center for paleontology. Here they describe in clear language how fossils are formed and preserved, and what information they give us about the past, particularly in...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Layers of Time: Fossil Game
Game through which students order layers of sedimentary rock, from oldest to newest, based on the type of fossils they contain.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Stickleback Evolution Virtual Lab
This virtual lab uses stickleback fish and fossil specimens to study evolutionary processes and teaches students skills of data collection and analysis.
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: Fossil Formation
As part of a larger online exhibit on fossils and what fossils are, this site specifically deals with the formation of fossils. A six-step, detailed chart is provided with specific information explaining each step.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Fun Facts About Wooly Mammoths
This site will explain how the Woolly Mammoth evolved, where it migrated and what is now being done to try and clone it.
Other
The Academy of Natural Sciences
This site describes the museum. It shows the viewer what is currently on exhibit, interesting facts, and many links to other exhibits.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: David H. Koch Hall of Fossils: Deep Time
The Smithsonian Institution provides a virtual tour of the new "Deep Time" exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History.
Indiana University
Indiana University Bloomington: Identifying 3 D Fossil Prints [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, young scholars will identify three-dimensional (3-D) prints of common Indiana fossils to the kingdom, phylum, or class level. Students will observe and record the morphology of specimens and classify...
Indiana University
Indiana University Bloomington: Fossil Identification Chart [Pdf]
A flowchart students can use as a tool to identify fossils based on their physical characteristics, e.g., segmentation, symmetry, lack of a skeleton, etc.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: The Fossil Mind Map Unfolds
Students develop an organized mind map of facts they have learned about fossils from reading and visual content.
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: 3 Ls4 1: Fossil Evidence of Past Environments
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard 3-LS4-1: fossil evidence of past environments.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Fossils
Fourth graders act as paleontologists to figure out the environment where various fossils would have existed.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Fossil Formation Fun
In this lesson plan, 4th graders will compare and understand the three types of fossils.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Fossil Inferences
Arrange fossil pictures in sequence from oldest to youngest.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Dino Detectives
Fourth graders will learn about prehistoric life in Utah.
Utah Education Network
Uen: What Did You Find?
Use a k-w-l chart to learn about dinosaurs or fossils.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How a Dinosaur Became a Fossil
This interactive resource adapted from the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley shows how a dinosaur can be buried under sediment after it dies, become a fossil, and then become exposed and discovered by...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:4 Investigation 1 Identify & Compare Fossils
Fourth graders will look at different items to see if they can recognize fossils.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:4 Investigation 3 Examining Your Fossil
Investigation allows students to draw conclusions about the environment of fossils made previously.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Nhmu: Our Ancient Earth the Stratigraphy Cup
Activity provides students an opportunity to make a stratigraphy cup.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Prehistoric Climate Change and Why It Matters Today
In a instructional activity in this issue of Smithsonian in Your Classroom, students do the work of a team of paleontologists studying a time of rising carbon dioxide and rapid global warming during the Eocene epoch. By examining fossils...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Living Large
This engaging game about dinosaurs allows students to analyze and interpret fossil data, as well as engage in argument from evidence. The game helps students to understand that fossils provide evidence about the types of organisms that...