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Suggested lesson topics and resources to align with Dino Dig 2001

  • Sedimentary Rocks
  • Fossils and the Fossil Record
  • "An Indoor Fossil/Archeological Dig"
  • "Learning From the Fossil Record"
  • Mass Extinctions
  • Earth History and Geologic Time
  • "Time and Change/ Using Radioactive Decay to Determine Geologic Age" (for grades 7 - 12)
  • Paleontology


    Try some of these additional links for more information...

  • Smithsonian National Museum Of Natural History
  • Scientific American. Dino-ROAR. (A computer simulation gives voice to a long-extinct dinosaur). Available:
  • Patterns of Extinction. Available:
  • Possible Theories. Available:
  • USGS publication, "Geologic Time Online Edition"
  • Making the Geological Time Scale Real. Available:
  • Sedimentary Rock - Paleontology and Geology Glossary
  • Stegosaurus Skeleton Restored, 1891