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What Do You Know About PaleontOLogy?

For Students 6th - 12th
Believe it or not, some dinosaurs are not extinct. Discover this and other interesting facts about dinosaurs in a 10-question online quiz. As individuals answer questions, the resource provides them with feedback and additional facts...
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The Coelacanth aka 'The Living Fossil Fish'

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this online quiz worksheet, learners answer a set of multiple choice questions about the Coelacanth, or Living Fossil Fish. Page has a link to answers.
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Cave Art

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore cave art. In this Neolithic Age lesson, students get into groups and research a given topic. Students create a poster with information and visual aids. Students then look a pictures and watch a DVD about artifacts found...
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Mapping Los Angeles over Time

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read maps for chronological information in Los Angeles. They develop a multicultural chronology of Los Angeles.
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2 Digit Subtraction Worksheets with Regrouping

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these subtraction worksheets, students will subtract single and double digit subtrahends from double digit minuends. Students will need to regroup to solve.
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Rock Cycle: The Story of a Rock

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils examine the rock cycle by watching videos and then use creative storytelling techniques to tell the story of a rock as it undergoes geologic changes.
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Back to the Past

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils label fossil imprints. In this Geology lesson, students view fossil imprints of several items. Pupils explain what a fossil is.
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America's Stone Age Explorers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students watch a Nova program examining the earliest in habitants of the Americas. In groups. they take notes on various topics covered in the program. Among the topics covered are: the Clovis people, Solutrean culture, migration...
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Inference By Analogy

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students infer the use or meaning of items recovered from a North Carolina Native American site based on 17th-century European settlers' accounts and illustration.
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Fossils: Clues to Ancient Life

For Teachers 4th - 8th
You can make your students amateur paleontologists with great fossil lesson plans.
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Living Fossils

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the term living fossil and examine why some of the reasons they survived.  For this fossils lesson students form a hypothesis and use data to see if it is accurate. 
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Dinosaurs

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this dinosaur worksheet, students focus on the myths associated with dinosaurs. Students complete 4 fill in the blank questions using the interactive drop down menu for each and a word search.    
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Designasaurus: Modeling Activity for a Paleoartist

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create and draw fictional dinosaurs. They write a description of their dinosaur.
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Ecoregions of Texas

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders discuss why hunter-gatherers might have favored certain areas in which to live. In pairs, they research specific regions to examine in depth. Students present their eco-region vegetation findings (in this case Central...
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Fossil Fuels-Importance and Formation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Student is introduced to the concept of energy as a common factor among all things. They list three fossil fuels and describe how fossil fuels were formed. They then tell how much plant debris it took to form one foot of coal.
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Scheduled Events: indicating planned activities and events

For Students 4th - 6th
In this activities and events worksheet, students choose the correct words to complete the sentences about planned activities and events. Students complete 12 sentences total.
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Jewel of the Earth

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Pupils investigate several organisms, set sticky traps to collect them, and attempt to identify and classify them using a variety of sources. The origins of the organisms are traced and their adaptive features examined.
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Archeological Finds

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners explore archeology and it contributions to human history. They write a magazine article describing the discovery of a dig.
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Archery

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students are shown proper stance, nocking, targeting, and release techniques of archery. They follow basic safety procedures involved in handling and using archery equipment. Students practice shooting aluminum or fiberglass shaft arrows.
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A PRICELESS Collection

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read a story about the life of Russian plant breeder Nikolai I and Vavilov and the national seed bank he established. They research the Irish Potato Famine of the late 1840s and identify the cause for this famine and make...
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Horses

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students discuss the importance of the horse as a "beast of burden" animal in Japanese culture and create a legend, myth or tall tale set in Japan with a horse as the central character.
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Seeing Ancient Worlds

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students view the images from the Nature Images Photo Gallery and identify various elements of nature. They then group the elements into categories and discuss what these images tell about the worlds of ancient Native Americans.
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Geology

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders devise a workable inch-to-inch scale for a geologic timeline sequencing the eras covered in the unit. They hypothesize from descriptions of dinosaur fossil evidence.
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Breaking News English: Woolly Mammoths Extinct Due to Lack of Grass

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, learners read "Woolly Mammoths Extinct Due to Lack of Grass," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.

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