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  Grades 2-4    $10 per student     45 minutes     Capacity: 15-80 students

Please note: minimum program fees will be charged for groups of fewer than 15 students.


Program Description: Students make their own replica fossil to keep as a souvenir! During this interactive program students learn what are molds, what are casts and what are fossils? They will learn what happens to a fossil from its discovery at a fossil site to its star appearance in the museum exhibit.

This program suits Grades 2-4 Curriculum, but it is suitable for Grades 2-12.


CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS

Grades 2 Science: Matter – Natural materials are those that come from plants, animals, the land, or the sky. Processed materials are made by humans. 

Grades 3-4 Science: Earth Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened by investigating natural systems and their interactions, including carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.   

 


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