Fossil Safari 2.0

FOSSIL SAFARI 2.0

Back by popular demand – Fossil Safari 2.0! Embark on our Great Plains Fossil Safari with our Research Paleontologists.

PROGRAM DURATION

Thursday, November 7, 2024
45 minutes
Programs are held at 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. CT on each noted day.

Audience

Grades K-5

SPECIAL EXPERT GUESTS:

• UNSM Vertebrate Paleontological Team

STANDARDS SUPPORTED

• SC.K.7 Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems: Animals, Plants, and Their Environment
• SC.1.6.2 Gather, analyze, and communicate evidence to show the relationship between structure and function in living things.
• SC.2.7 Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
• SC.3.7.2.B Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and environments in which they lived long ago.
• SC.4.6.3 Gather and analyze data to communicate an understanding of structure, function, and information processing of living things.
• SC.4.6.3.B Construct an argument that plants, and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
• SC.5.13.4 Gather and analyze data to communicate understanding of Earth’s systems.

COST

Free to Nebraska schools.
$125 outside of Nebraska.

Science Chat Specials are free of charge to Nebraska schools thanks to generous gifts from the Rogers Foundation, and Friends of the University of Nebraska State Museum.