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| Type of Product: | Book Chapter |
| Average Rating: | 
based on 2 reviews |
| Publication Title: | Adventures in Paleontology: 36 Classroom Fossil Activities |
| Publication Date: | 1/1/2006 |
| Pages: | 35 |
| Grade Level: | Elementary School, Middle School |
| See Also: | View all available chapters for this book
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Description
At one point or another, it seems like all students are interested in paleontology. Wonderful extinct animals like dinosaurs excite the imagination like almost nothing else. Once you have the students' interest, you will find that a study of paleontology provides avenues of exploration into a wide variety of foundational sciences such as biology, geology, chemistry, physics, and astronomy. The purpose of this set of activities is to enable students to engage in the same kind of investigative study as do paleontologists. Included in this free selection from Adventures in Paleontology: 36 Classroom Fossil Activities are nine lessons and corresponding activities. You will also find included, a Table of Contents, Introduction, and Index.
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Science Discipline:
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Dinosaurs
Asking questions
Collecting data
Experimenting
Measuring
Scientific habits of mind
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| Intended User Role: | Elementary-Level Educator, Middle-Level Educator, Teacher |
| Educational Issues: | Achievement, Assessment of students, Classroom management, Educational research, Informal education, Inquiry learning, Instructional materials, Learning theory, Teacher content knowledge, Teacher preparation, Teaching strategies |
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| Resource Format: | application/pdf |
| Size: | 212 KB |
| Requirements: | Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader |
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- Life Science
- Diversity and adaptations of organisms
- Fossils indicate that many organisms that lived long ago are extinct. (5-8)
- Earth Science
- Properties of earth materials
- Fossils provide evidence about the plants and animals that lived long ago and the nature of the environment at that time.
- Science as Inquiry
- Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
- Ask a question about objects, organisms, and events in the environment. (K-4)
- Plan and conduct a simple investigation. (K-4)
- Identify questions that can be answered through scientific investigations.
- Design and conduct a scientific investigation.
- Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models using evidence.
- Think critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations.
Customer Reviews
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Fossil Discoveries |
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Reviewed by: Alyce D (Peyton, CO) on January 12, 2012 |
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This downloadable chapter has an excellent and detailed explanations of scientific theory, law, and inquiry and the importance of correctly stating a hypothesis. Even if you don't specifically teach fossils in your curriculum, the innovative inquiry activities could be implemented during beginning year activities when "Inferencing Skills" are explored. Scale models and the calculation of scale is explained and taught in a manner that engaged my least motivated and learning disabled student. |
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Using Process Skill Techniques to Dig Fossils |
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Reviewed by: Carolyn Mohr (Buffalo Grove, IL) on April 26, 2011 |
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This is an excellent resource for teachers looking for ways to incorporate process skills with a study of fossils. The free second chapter of this book highlights the wealth of information available to incorporate measuring, observing, inferring, hypothesizing, analyzing…the list goes on…into the learning of fossils. There are 36 activities designed for grades 5 – 8. Students will be motivated to learn about paleontology with hands-on, minds-on activities. Chapter 2 provides the first 9 activities free! |
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