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Adventures at Dry Creek

Author/Source: UC Museum of Paleontology
Overview:In this interactive web-based module students conduct a simulated field study at a fossil dig in Montana.
Concepts:This lesson covers the following concepts:
  • Fossils provide evidence of past life.
  • Scientists pose, test, and revise hypotheses based on research outcomes.
  • Scientific ideas are developed through reasoning.
  • Scientists use multiple lines of evidence to study life over time.
  • Scientists use fossils to learn about past life.
Grade Level:6-8
Time:Three to four class periods.
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