BONE-voyage! A Fossil's Journey from the Field to the Lab

by Museum of the Rockies

How do you find a fossil? From spotting a fossil in the ground to seeing it on display in a museum, paleontology is exciting and hands-on science. In this program, students will discover how paleontologists find fossils, carefully dig them up, protect and transport them, and prepare them in the lab for research and display. You’ll learn that discovering a dinosaur is just the start of its amazing journey!

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About This Program

Cost

By Request: $50.00
By Request Premium: $40.00

Length

45 minutes with time for questions. Can be made shorter if need be.

Target Audience

Education: Grade(s) 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Teacher(s)/Educator(s), Parent, Adult Learners, Homeschool/Family , Learning PodPublic Library: Library Patrons, Library Staff

Minimum participants:

1,000

Maximum participants:

No minimum

Primary Disciplines

Science, STEM

Program Delivery Mode

Zoom

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About This Provider

Museum of the Rockies

BOZEMAN, MT
United States

Museum of the Rockies (MOR) is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, a college-level division of Montana State University, a Smithsonian Affiliate, and a repository for state and federal fossils. MOR is recognized as a world-class cultural and natural history museum and research facility. It is renowned for displaying an extensive collection of dinosaur fossils, including the fully-mounted Montana's T. rex skeleton!

MOR delights members and visitors with changing exhibits from around the world, cultural and natural history exhibits, planetarium shows, educational programs and camps, insightful lectures, benefit events, and a museum store.

Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, MOR is one of 1,096 museums to hold this distinction from the more than 33,000 museums nationwide. The museum is also a member of The Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) Travel Passport Program and the Montana Dinosaur Trail.

The museum is proud to have sister-museum relationships with the Carter County Museum, Mifune Dinosaur Museum, Aso Volcano Museum, Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, and the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

Contact:
Ashley Hall
moroutreach@montana.edu
406-994-6591

Program Details

Format

Videoconference – Webcam/desktop (Zoom, Google Meet, Cisco WebEx, etc.)

Objectives

1. Welcome and introduction to Museum of the Rockies
2. What is paleontology?
3. Where do we find dinosaurs?
4. What do we need to do before we dig?
5. The discovery and excavation of a fossil
6. How do we get fossils back to the museum?
7. Fossil prep work and cleaning
8. Display and research
9. Questions

Standards Alignment

State Standards

2nd Grade
Life Science: Make observations of plants and animals to compare and contrast the diversity of life in different habitats.

3rd Grade
Life Science: Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.

4th Grade
Earth & Space Science: Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time.

5th Grade
Earth & Space Science: Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, or atmosphere interact.?

6th- 8th Grade
Earth & Space Science: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth’s 4.6 billon-year-old history.

Life Science: Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past.