Your students work for an organization that is studying how environments change when the climate gets warmer. The organization has found a collection of fossils. Their job is to look at these fossils and see what they can figure out about the living things they came from, and what their environment was like.
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Try it out!
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Use this guide to help your students explore their paleobiologist research project.
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Provide this lab notebook for students to record their observations and reflections during their science explorations.
Materials needed
- Theropod footprint replica (grallator)
- 3D printed small mammal skulls
- Leaf fossil photo, printed & laminated
- Rulers
- Portable whiteboard & marker
Additional resources
Use the career card as a visual facilitation aid, so students can see what a Paleobiologist might look like. Use the below 3D models as a supplement to or replacement for the 3D printed skulls in the materials list.
