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Dino-Data
Author/Source: UC Museum of Paleontology |
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| Overview: | Students are presented with a set of data about dinosaurs and are asked to make hypotheses about what the data can tell us. |
| Concepts: | This lesson covers the following concepts:- Fossils provide evidence of past life.
- Scientists pose, test, and revise hypotheses based on research outcomes.
- Science explains the natural world using evidence from the natural world.
- We can learn about the natural world using our senses and extensions of our senses.
- Scientific ideas are developed through reasoning.
- Science does not prove or conclude; science is always a work in progress.
- Science corrects itself.
- The story of the evolution of living things is always being refined as we gather more evidence.
- Scientists use multiple lines of evidence to study life over time.
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| Grade Level: | 6-8 |
| Time: | Two class periods |
| Teacher Background: | Explore these links for additional information on the topics covered in this lesson: |
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