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Fossils in Time
Instructional Resources
National
Park Service
Tour of Fossil Parks:
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/tour/fossil.htm
Teaching Paleontology in the National Parks, a curriculum for second
and third grade teachers:
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/education/teaching_paleo_unit1.pdf
NPS
Paleontology Homepage http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/paleontology/index.htm
NPS Paleontology Newsletters
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/paleontology/news/newsletter.htm
Park Geology Education links:
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/education/
includes links to Intro to Fossils slide shows for second and
third grades.
US
Geologic Survey
USGS Geologic Glossary (simplified definitions for technical terms)
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/misc/glossaryAtoC.html
Geologic Time (online edition)
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/
Major Divisions of Geologic Time:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/divisions.html
Index Fossils:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/fossils.html
Fossils, Rocks, and Time
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/fossils/
Dinosaurs: Facts and Fiction
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dinosaurs/
Paleogeography: http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/continents/
Vertebrates - describes the evolutionary progression of vertebrates
through geologic time, and how paleontologists infer past environments
from the vertebrate fossils:
http://geology.er.usgs.gov/paleo/vertebra.shtml
Alaska
Museum of Natural History
Alaska Dinosaurs and Marine Reptiles: includes information on fossils,
dinosaurs in Alaska, and several activities.
http://www.alaskamuseum.org/2004/education/dinosaurs/index.html
University
of California, Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/index.html
Geologic Time Scale graphic – very nice and detailed :
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/geotime/guide/
Geological Time Machine - describes each geologic era and period.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html
What killed the dinosaurs? - includes discussion on extinction,
invalid hypotheses and current arguments.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/extinction.html
Teaching Evolution - information on teaching evolution and the fossil
record, with lesson plans and activities.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/
Smithsonian
Museum
Department of Paleobiology
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/paleo/
Bureau
of Land Management, Alaska
Dinosaurs on the North Slope of Alaska: includes information about
fossil finds in northern Alaska, as well as rules for collecting
fossils on public lands.
http://www.ak.blm.gov/ak930/akdino.html
Field
Museum of Natural History¸Chicago Illinois
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/
See
Sue, the world's largest, most complete and most famous
T. rex. http://www.fieldmuseum.org/sue/default.htm
Explore expeditions@fieldmuseum™
and join the hunt for fossils in Wyoming. Sign up to receive emails
from scientists in the field! http://www.fmnh.org/expeditions
Denver Museum
of Nature and Science
Follow a fossil – describes the process of fossil hunting from prospecting,
excavation, preparation, curation, research, and exhibiting.
http://www.dmns.org/main/minisites/fossil/whatfossil.html
Palaeontologia
Electronica
Go
to the Teacher Resources section for a variety of teach tools and
links.
http://www.omnh.ou.edu/paleo/toc.htm
Zoom
Dinosaurs
a
comprehensive on-line hypertext book about dinosaurs of the Enchanted
Learning Company.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/
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