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American Museum of Natural History: Pterosaurs O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
OLogy cards are like virtual baseball cards about all kinds of science topics. This one is about ancient flying reptiles called pterosaurs. See if you can answer a few questions when you're done reading.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Face to Fossil: Protoceratops

For Students 3rd - 8th
Questions and answers about Protoceratops andrewsi, presented as an "interview" with a museum's fossil. Learn about the dinosaur, the age of the fossil, and how the museum had it transported.
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American Museum of Natural History: Tornadoes O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip this interactive card to start learning about tornadoes, nature's most powerful storms. Answer multiple-choice and fact-or-fiction questions and review some fast facts about tornadoes.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Paleontology: The Big Dig

For Students 3rd - 8th
On this site, you will learn all about Paleontology, the study of ancient life. It defines paleontology and provides links to games, stories, videos, and hands-on activities.
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American Museum of Natural History: Resources for Learning: The Path to El Nino

For Students 3rd - 8th
Through this resource, students explore the history, causes, effects, and patterns of El Nino.
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American Museum of Natural History: Inca Investigation

For Students 3rd - 5th
Be an archaeologist and examine maps and ancient artifacts relating to the Inca empire.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Dive Into Worlds Within the Sea

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about three different marine ecosystems: coral reefs, the continental shelf, and the deep sea. Interactive game included, which will help players chart the interrelationships among organisms that live in each ecosystem.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: The Tree of Life

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the diversity of species on Earth by exploring a cladogram, a graph-like tree of life that illustrates relatedness among species. Includes instructions for reading cladograms and a pie chart that summarizes the percentages of...
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American Museum of Natural History: Ology: The Butterfly Kingdom

For Students 3rd - 7th
Learn about Taiwan's amazing wealth of butterflies, many of which can be found nowhere else in the world. See how butterflies have influenced Taiwanese culture, how some people have made a business from butterflies, and about efforts...
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What Do You Know? Archaeology

For Students 3rd - 8th
A ten question quiz on the study of archaeology.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What Do You Know? Dinosaurs

For Students 3rd - 6th
Test knowledge about dinosaurs with this ten question quiz.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What Do You Know? Climate Change

For Students 3rd - 8th
Test your knowledge on climate change with this short quiz.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Layers of Time: Fossil Game

For Students 3rd - 8th
Game through which students order layers of sedimentary rock, from oldest to newest, based on the type of fossils they contain.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Create a Coral Reef

For Students 3rd - 8th
Detailed instructions, with photographs for every step, for how to build a coral reef diorama.
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American Museum of Natural History: Oology: Expeditions

For Students 3rd - 8th
This student module includes short, informational text, images, interactive games, and quizzes about ocean exploration.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Welcome to the Dzanga Sangha

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explore the Dzanga Sangha rain forest, located in the Central African Republic. Learn what researchers who have traveled there have to say about the habitat. Also play a connect-the-dots game that lets players see how different organisms...
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Scholastic: Writing With Scientists With the American Museum of Natural History

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Follow this six-step method and you'll have a good understanding of what a good scientific research paper involves and how it is organized. There are plenty of samples for you to look at. This explanation is also very helpful for...
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American Museum of Natural History: Ology: See the Light

For Students 3rd - 8th
Reflection, refraction, and the colors that make up white light is explored through lab activities after reading a brief background about light energy.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What's the Big Idea? Climate Change

For Students 3rd - 8th
What do people around the world need to do in order to slow the process of climate change? This resource dives into the dangers of change and proposes solutions.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Marine Biology: The Living Oceans

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource is a place for exploring, asking questions, finding information, meeting scientists, and learning about marine ecosystems.
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American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Paleontology: The Big Dig

For Students 3rd - 7th
A collection of online games, virtual puzzles, experiments, and interviews with experts to immerse students into the world of paleontology.
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American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What Do You Know? Earth Science

For Students 2nd - 6th
Take a ten question quiz on the Earth's surface.
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American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Rising Co2! What Can We Do?

For Students 3rd - 5th
With this resource, students learn how much fossil fuel emissions have increased since 1600 by exploring a graph showing carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Then answer questions and read facts about climate change over the centuries....
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American Museum of Natural History: Make Your Own Mythic Mask or Puppet

For Students 3rd - 8th
Create your own masks and puppets and bring the mythic creatures to life.