This week we’re digging deeper for fossils!
Your kit has materials for making 3 different types of fossils:
1. Fossil Dough Mold Fossil
Watch this! “How Are Dinosaur Fossils Formed?” The Natural History Museum (London, UK)
2. Plaster Fossil Cast
Watch this! “Seeing Double: How The Field Museum Makes Fossil Casts” The Field Museum (Chicago, Illinois)
3. Amber Fossil Lollipops
Watch this! “Can We Get DNA From Fossils?” PBS Eons
Take a virtual museum tour and see awesome fossils!
David H. Koch Hall of Fossils – Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (D.C.) (One of many tours!)
Behind the Scenes with Paleontologists – Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology (Alberta, Canada)
Hall of Footprints & Hall of Life – Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology (Claremont, California)
Exhibits & Investigations – University of California Museum of Paleontology (Berkeley, California)
Interested in learning more about something? Email me (ehartman@carbondale.lib.il.us) and I’ll find resources for you!