For this lesson, students embark on an adventure to find out what life was like in Montana 60-70 million years ago. Students "join" a research lab to collect fossils from Montana and analyze them to find direct and indirect evidence of the past. At the end of the lesson, students are asked to come up with hypotheses about life in Montana 60-70 million ago based on their research.

Concepts

data analysis

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Additional Tags

earth's history, geological history, scientific method, university of california museum of paleontology, fossil record

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)