Earth Science
These individual objects are also available:
- Dinosaur Floor Puzzle
- Polar Dinosaurs 2008 Lecture DVD
- Tracking Alaska’s Jurassic Dinosaurs DVD
Fossils & Dinos Kit
Look at different types of fossils, learn how they are formed and make some of your own!
Touch a real Alaskan hadrosaur bone, learn about the work of a museum paleontologist, and use the timeline cord to grasp the scale of geologic time.
What’s in the Kit?
Timeline cord activity
Sedimentator activity (with teacher’s guide)
Fossilization Collection object & activity
Fossil rubbing plates activity
Fossil stamps and “fossil dough” recipe activity
Plastic dinos and plants to use in creating “fossils” activity
Fossil, ammonite object
Fossil, bivalve (clam-like) object
Plaster jacketed dinosaur bone object
5 Fossilized hadrosaur bones object
Dino track mold and cast object
Edmontosaurus fact sheet and coloring sheet activity
The Dinosaurs of Darkness book
Prehistoric Alaska book
Recommended Grade Levels: preK-12
Key word: Fossil; Dinosaur; Geologic time
Rocks & Minerals Kit
Using their observation skills and small tools, students will learn to describe and sort rocks and minerals.
This kit is an introduction to the rock cycle and the science of geology. Specimens represent major mineral categories.
What’s in the Kit?
75 rocks and minerals specimens
Magnet, penny, magnifier, streak plate objects
Describe and Sort activity
Student Observation sheet
Study guide
Recommended Grade Levels: 2-8
Key words: Rock and mineral identification; Rock cycle; Earth Science; Geology
