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Pterosaurs: The Card Game InteractivePterosaurs: The Card Game Interactive
Publisher
American Museum of Natural History
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Grade
6th - 12th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Types
Interactives
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Duration
45 mins
Instructional Strategy
Inquiry-Based Learning
Technology
Video
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Year
2014
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Pterosaurs: The Card Game

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Piecing together the past is a challenging endeavor. Learners get a taste of that challenge as they play a game that incorporates several components such as trophic levels, geological time periods, and catastrophic events. Pairs work to create a food chains based on all of these criteria while collecting points.

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Concepts

dinosaurs, reptiles, birds, trophic levels, food chains

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • Laminate cards for use during multiple periods
  • Hold a tournament to encourage using the cards as a learning strategy

Classroom Considerations

  • Allow time to prepare materials prior to the lesson
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Pros

  • Uses a game to motivate learners
  • Provides instructions with both text and video

Cons

  • None

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