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Activity
Other

Denver Museum of Nature and Science: Ice Age Giants Coloring Pages [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Printable coloring sheets of Ice Age animals, such as the dire wolf, the giant beaver, the American mastodon, and the saber-toothed cat.
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EL Education

El Education: Pre Historic Mammal Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students study prehistoric people and animals and create trading cards with an original illustration of an animal on one side and facts about that animal on the other.
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Handout
Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Dinosaurs: Archaeopteryx Lithographica

For Students 3rd - 8th
Is it a feathered dinosaur, or the ancestor of birds? Find out about the Archaeopteryx lithographica whose fossil remains show feathers similar to that of a bird, and whose skeleton resembles that of a dinosaur.
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Handout
Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Lions (Prehistoric)

For Students 3rd - 8th
Lions were among the largest predators during the ice age. Get other interesting facts about this ancestor of the American Lion.
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Website
PBS

Nova: The Extinction Enigma

For Students 9th - 10th
45,000 - 50,000 years ago the megafauna of Australia became extinct. This interview investigates several possible causes such as, continental drift, human impact, and climate change.
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Handout
Other

Buzzle.com: Animal Sake: Triassic Period Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief descriptions of the climate of the Triassic Period and of the plants and animals. Includes a lengthy list of the animals that lived during that time.
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Handout
Other

Buzzle.com: Animal Sake: Precambrian Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes several types of organisms that lived in the Precambrian Era and provides a list of others. Some of these still exist today.
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Interactive
Math Science Nucleus

Math/science Nucleus: Mammoth Mary Animation

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This animation, in a storybook format, discusses a wide variety of prehistoric animals from the mammoth to the mastodon.