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Curriculum Materials

Middle School Curriculum
A Carbon Cycle That Rocks (2.83mb PDF file)
Geology, Relatives, and Time (502kb PDF file)
Radiometric Dating Game (602kb PDF file)
Seeing the Third Dimension (5.98mb PDF file)
Modeling Fossil Butte (1.24mb PDF file)

research quarry raw data through 2011 (919kb MS Excel file)

This middle school curriculum is very new. Please send comments and/or suggestions to our Lead Interpreter. Thanks!

 
Educational Fun
 
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This 11" x 17" poster invites students to learn what fossils are, how they form and what happens to them by following the "Road to Fossilization".
 
Road to Fossilization (1.9mb PDF file)

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