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]

Hi from California!  My students did the lesson this week and studied the ancestral whale bones, put them in order and started learning about the evolution of the whale.  We are in the middle of research and building our presentations.  We should be finished next week before they are out of school.  Not sure if I can actually do the extension pie…[Read more]

We completed the post survey yesterday. Implementation of my lesson on the bathymetry of Monterey Canyon did not happen due to multiple technical difficulties with the STL I had for the canyon- it was too big; with tinkering and help from our IT guy the file was sliced and worked. Next mishap was with the printer and software; our IT guy updated…[Read more]

I have finished my reflection and am emailing it to Claudia, Pasha and Michael this evening. All of my students have now taken the post survey. I have just a few minor edits still to make on my unit. I am very glad to have participated in this project, and learned so much!

I finished up my unit this week, and have one more group of students to complete the post-survey tomorrow. I will tweak my initial plans this weekend and post them, along with my reflection. Last week was amazing with Michael Ziegler co-teaching all four of my classes with me! The kids were disappointed this week to learn that Mr. Ziegler had gone…[Read more]

I started my lesson on Monday the 26th. We took the pretest on Monday as well. I had planned on doing the printing Friday, but things are moving slower that I had expected. We will print either Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. I have also contacted a couple of paleontologist friends about a fossil hunt but I don’t have anything confirmed.

Pavlo,

I am pushing my lesson back as I am trying to locate 3D files.  I am going to try and complete the lesson December 13th & 14th

Is anybody working with whales? If so, email me! cgrant@flmnh.ufl.edu

Good Morning,
Below is my update: 
My reflection document, photos, and an excel document of some pre and post assessments were sent to Pasha this morning.  Students have completed both the pre and post surveys and my final version of my lesson plan was uploaded onto Myfossil earlier this week.  I also have student assent forms ready for pickup or…[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]

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