In 2001, the Geology Museum organized and hosted Paleontological Experiences, a unique program with funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. This course gave Wisconsin K-12 teachers an opportunity to learn about vertebrate paleontology through field and laboratory experiences. Together, these teachers and museum staff assembled lesson plans on various geology and paleontology topics. Please feel free to download these for classroom use.

Elementary School
Insects Preserved in Amber (pre K - 3rd)
Dinosaur Prints (K - 1st)
Teeth (1st - 3rd)
Footprint Detectives (1st - 2nd)
Area and Scale Excercise (3rd - 6th)
Mapping and Scaling Comparison (3rd - 6th)
Footprints and Estimation (3rd - 6th)
Dig It! (4th-6th)
Comparison of Walking and Running
Trackways (4th - 8th)
Making a Scale Drawing of Dinosaurs (4th - 8th)
No Bones About It: Reconstructing a
Mosasaur (3rd - 10th)

Middle School
No Bones About It: Reconstructing a Mosasaur (3rd - 10th)
Paleontology: A Simulated Field Experience (5th - 7th)
Designasaurus: Modeling Activity of a Paleoartist (5th - 8th)
Weighing a Dinosaur (6th - 8th)
Dino Long Legs (6th - 8th)
Can You Dig It? Mapping the Squirrelosaur Site (7th - 8th)
Geology Time Scale I (7th - 8th)
Geology Time Scale II (7th - 8th)
Looking at Blood Vessels in Dino Bone (7th - 12th)
Timeline Reporters (8th - 9th)
Rocks of Ages: A Half-Life Analog (6th - 12th)

High School
A Phylogenetic Perspective for the Cladistically Challenged (9th - 12th)
Rocks of Ages: A Half-like Analog (6th - 12th)

Classroom Resources
Elephant Tracks
Dinosaur Tracks