K12 Teachers

The Wenas Mammoth Foundation is offering three Paleontology and Archaeology Summer Day Camps in 2019.  A Youth Camp on June 18-20th, a Family Camp on May 4th & 5th, and a Teacher Camp on June 1st & 2nd (teachers can earn STEM clock hours).  If you are interested in any of these camps, contact [email protected].  We also have a fe…[Read more]

Sizing Up Turkeys

This is a middle school math lesson about proportions.  It might be a fun activity the week of Halloween or Thanksgiving.  Students use 3D fossil turkey leg bones to hypothesize what future turkeys could fictionally look like if the growth rate were to remain constant.  Although with that scenario we may want to call it “…[Read more]

2018 Wenas Mammoth Foundation’s Paleontology Youth Summer Day Camp:  This was our first camp and it was a big success.  We had sixteen 4th through 9th graders who were full of excitement as they learned methods of paleontology and archaeology, the history of the dig site, and how to accurately record layers and depth of artifacts and fossils.   T…[Read more]

2nd WMF Mural Project at the Wenas Mammoth Foundation’s dig site was completed by the La Salle High School Art students.  They spent the past school year researching and practicing how they were going to do the Winter Scene of the Wenas Valley 17,000 years ago.  They had 2 days in May to paint the mural.  The students did a wonderful job!  It was…[Read more]

Hello K-12!  I am with the Wenas Mammoth Foundation in Selah, WA.  We are utilizing the Wenas Creek Mammoth dig site to bring local natural earth science to our schools and communities.  We have partnered with ESD105 (Educational Service District for our region) to align our curriculum with the Next Generation Science Standards.  If you would lik…[Read more]

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Hello Teachers!

We have a new paleo dig opportunity for K-12 educators here in Gainesville, Fl on April 6-9, 2017.  Please follow the link to apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BuPoCNkNR1ah5hY5XaHgMMvebVkDgrmYE0LKxqapkWk/edit?usp=forms_home&ths=true

Applications are due by February 3rd, 2017! Please let me know if you have any questions!

I’m hoping that our group will provide a place to share our ideas about fossil and paleontology in K-12. In addition, we also have a forum on K-12, which if interested, you should check out.