Animals: Mammoths

The animal population of Arkansas has changed dramatically over the past 10,000 years due to climate change, and human interaction/interruption of animal environments. Upper graders and middle schoolers do a study of how animals...

Instructions for two terrific ancient history lessons for your primary paleontologists are provided in this resource. The first involves the creation of fossil cast replicas using plaster of Paris. The directions are detailed, but the...

If you could bring back one extinct animal, what would it be? That is the question your class will ponder. Your budding scientists read a passage, follow a cloning timeline, and review a diagram about the process of reviving a woolly...

Geologists are gneiss, tuff, and a little bit wacke. The fifth chapter of seven includes ten activities at four different levels. The hands-on activities cover fossils including how they are formed, vertebrates, invertebrates,...

Young paleontologists roll up their sleeves and get a little dirty in this hands-on unit on dinosaurs. Over the course of these seven lessons young scientists learn about these giant reptiles while excavating and assembling a T-rex...

Learners measure how big dinosaurs were and make models out of clay or dough. In this past animals and plants lesson plan, students write about the measuring process in their science journals.

Continue trekking alongside the mammoth and meet other members of the Pleistocene landscape. Woolly rhinos, Neanderthals, large cats, and reindeer are introduced along with the adaptations that help them survive extreme temperatures and...

Follow a herd of mammoths as they travel through the harsh Pleistocene grass lands. Well composed and straight-forward enough for third or fourth graders, this clip explains why these animals where so large, how they survived, and how...

Learners study about animals that have lived in Nebraska in the past, and animals that currently live in Nebraska. They examine how animal life changed since the early beginnings and what has caused these changes?

Students develop an understanding of the evolution of species in the context of the woolly mammoth. They examine the fossil record to explain natural selection.