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Teacher Paleontology Resources on the Internet

1. Learning from the Fossil Record
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/fosrec.html
is a large collection of teacher-tested lesson plans and classroom activities. Many of these lessons use model building and problem solving to teach geological lessons about process and interactions.

2. Paleontology Resources for K-12
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/paleontology.htm
is an exhaustive meta-list of web sites of museums, geologic time periods, fossils, virtual exhibits, radiocarbon dating and the Ice Age.

3. WDC Educational Links for Paleontology Education
http://server1.wyodino.org/l_education.html
provides links to teacher resources at natural history museums and the Paleontological Society.

4. The Jobaria Home Page
http://jobaria.org/jobaria/JobariaHome.html
provides background information about Dr. Paul Sereno's 1997 expedition to Africa where the new dinosaur Jobaria was discovered. Learn how an elephant was used to determine how Jobaria moved. Teacher Tracks is a collection of classroom activities for grades K-12.

5. K12: Paleontology for Busy Teachers' Web Site
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/paleo.html
provides classroom lessons; some of which are classroom ready. The list includes sites about dinosaurs, dino eggs, dino cladograms, a tour through the Smithsonian, the origin of birds and the rise and fall of mammoths.

6. Set in Stone from the BLM
http://www.blm.gov/education/paleo/index.html
has a few interesting classroom activities. One explores how a dinosaur "chewed" its food; another uses model building to examine how these large animals maintained their balance.

7. Internet Resources for Science and Mathematics Education
Http://www.inform.umd.edu/UMS+State/UMD-Projects/MCTP/Technology/MCTP_WWW_Bookmarks.html
has an Earth Science and Paleontology section with many good educational links. PaleoRing, Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette and Dinosauria On-line and Virtual Dating, an interactive exercise about geologic time, are listed.

8. Newton's Apple
http://ericir.syr.edu/Projects/Newton/12/Lessons/dinoextn.html

9. New York Times Learning Network
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/000104tuesday.html
produced a lesson titled No Bones About It: Connecting Dinosaur Features and their Daily Survival for grades 6-12. Many good links are within the lesson.

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