Students determine what a fossil is and distinguish between body fossils and trace fossils. They examine pictures of fossils and determine which represents a trace or body fossil.

Students participate in a simulation in which they discover the threats to sea turtles throughout the world. In groups, they act out the life cycle of a sea turtle and describe the stresses that threaten their survival. As a class,...

In this pronoun cases worksheet, students read the sentences and determine which pronoun case completes the sentence. Students write in the option of I, me, my, mine, or myself for each sentence.

Follow the steps of paleontologists as they excavate Tyrannosaurus bones. This project took place in 2004 but there is plenty of useful information on the website for learning more about the T. Rex. Such as, how do you tell a male from a...

Teachers can download this teaching package that introduces students to the science of paleontology. Fossil formulation and details about the work of paleontologists are discussed. Find out how paleontologists discover, stabilize, and...

Hadrosaurus foulkii was the very first dinosaur skeleton ever found. It was excavated in 1858 from a field in New Jersey. The story of the discovery, the excavation and the huge impact this had on the scientific world are described in...

The Struthiomimus was a fast moving North American dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period. It belonged to the Ornithomimosaur group of dinosaurs. A good description of the Struthiomimus is found on this page, as well as a slideshow...

Stan T. Rex is the name given to a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton that was excavated and reconstructed by the Black Hills Institute. Stan is sixty-five percent bone and among the most complete T. Rex skeletons in the world that scientists...

Sue T. Rex is the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton to date. Its discovery and excavation by the Black Hills Institute is described in these pages. Sue now resides at the Field Museum in Chicago. What's unique about Sue...

Sue T. Rex is the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton to date. It was discovered and excavated by the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research in South Dakota. The U.S. Government seized Sue from the Institute in 1992...

A how-to science project with instructions to make a complete dinosaur bone dig site burying chicken bones in plaster of Paris. Click on the starred words to learn more about the topic.

The Acrocanthosaurus lived 50 million years before Tyrannosaurus Rex did and was almost as immense. The discovery and excavation of an Acrocanthosaurus skeleton is detailed accompanied by a slide show of scientists preparing the skeleton...