Grades K-4, 7, 11 
$10 per student 
1 hour 
Capacity: 15-80 students
Please note: minimum program fees will be charged for groups of fewer than 15 students.
Program description: During this very hands-on program, students examine real 73-million year old fossils and extraordinary replicas from Alberta and beyond. Students will also learn about the different types of fossils found and how fossils records can teach us about life millions of years ago.
CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
K-2 Science: Earth Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened by investigating natural systems and their interactions
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.
Grade 7 (Science) Unit E: Planet Earth Describe the role of fossil evidence, identify the portions of living things most likely to be preserved, identify possible means of preservation, examine real fossils and casts.
Grade 11 (Science) Unit C: The Changing Earth Analyze and assess the evidence provided by the fossil record, identify life forms of past eras, fossilization, mass extinction. Describe common types of fossilization, actual remains, molds, imprints, tracks, trails, burrows. Explain how fossils can provide evidence of chronology, palaeoclimate, evolution and mass extinction.
Grade 11 (Science) Unit D: Changing in Living Systems Describe evidence for evolution by natural selection e.g. fossils, describe how palaeontology has provided invaluable data in the attempt to explain observable variations in organisms.
This program is available as an in-school program
