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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: The Voyage of the Beagle
In this activity, you'll learn how to interpret images and maps in order to extract information about Darwin's trip to the Galapagos Islands. Links provided for a gallery of images and a worksheet.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Prehistoric Climate Change and Why It Matters Today
In a lesson plan 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 of tree...
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...
University of Florida
Florida Museum of Natural History: Prehistoric Life
The focus of this guide is on exploring the massive ancient creatures that roamed the Earth millions of years ago.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Dinosphere
Learners will learn how dinosaurs were classified, compare shapes and sizes, and explore how paleontologists make discoveries. They'll analyze how dinosaurs interacted back in the day, and make their own dinosaur drawings and a fossil cast.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Mold and Cast
Learners will define the term fossil, identify the difference between a mold and a cast fossil, and understand how scientists use models to learn about the physical structure of something in the natural world.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Measuring a Dino
Young scholars will begin exploring dinosaur' bodies by measuring them and comparing dinosaur size to their own size.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Dinosaur Train
Dinosaur Train sparks children's interest in life science and natural history. As they explore a variety of animals, children develop the inquiry skills and knowledge needed to help them think, talk and act like paleontologists. Choose...
BBC
Bbc: Conditions for Fossil Formation
This interactive animation allows you to try different areas to see how suitable they are for fossil formation.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Fossils in Time Unit
For this lesson, students learn about the earth's past by studying clues that have been left behind, such as fossils and rocks. Students will find the answers to many questions: What is paleontology?, What is geological time?, What can...
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Fossil Distribution
One of the first lines of evidence suggesting the existence of plate tectonics was the discovery of very similar fossils in rock masses separated by vast distances and by ocean expanses. It suggested that those land areas had in the past...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Finding Fossils
Guidelines for investigating fossils in the field include specimen-finding strategies, dos and don'ts, examples of the kinds of fossils you may see, and other helpful information, such as how to record your observations and finds in a...
University of Nebraska
University of Nebraska State Museum: Ashfall Fossil Beds Resources
The Ashfall Fossil Beds are located in Nebraska, and this page highlights information about the fossil beds and some of the research being undertaken there.
University of California
Ucmp: Introducing Crinoids
This site from University of California is an introduction to crinoids with pictures. Click on another link to learn about the history and ecology, fossils, or morphology.
University of California
Ucmp: Georges Cuvier
This site from the University of California, Berkeley offers a biography of George Cuvier. Scientific ideas of George Cuvier are presented, such as those related to comparative anatomy, fossils, the idea of extinction, and others....
University of California
Ucmp: Learning From the Fossil Record
Fossils provide scientists with clues about Earth's past. This site from the University of California's Museum of Paleontology is great for exploring lots of information on fossils.