pink palace museumTeacher’s Program GuideTeacher’s Program Guide

Presented in a

Pink Palace Classroom

For Grades Pre-K - 3

15-32 students

Available August - May

Monday-Fridayat 9:30 & 11 am 45-60 Minutes

Program SummaryBe a young paleontologist. Students are guided on an adventurous journey to discover how these scientists unearth and study dinosaur fossils. They explore a backpack full of fossil hunting tools and work as young paleontologists to excavate fossils in our indoor dig pits. At our Investigation Stations, students use magnifying lenses, tape measures and small brushes to examine dinosaur skin impressions, claws, teeth and eggs. We match the fossils to the dinos and compare teeth and skulls. Students experience just how big a T. Rex was as we dramatically reveal its length inside our classroom. After identifying dinosaur diets, students examine coprolite (fossilized dinosaur poop). We use Museum artifacts and everyone gets to touch real dinosaur bones millions of years old.

Curriculum Standards Tennessee Science Kindergarten: K.1.1, K.1.2, K.5.2 1st Grade: 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.3.1, 1.5.1, 1.5.2 2nd Grade: 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.2.1-3, 2.3.1, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.6.13rd Grade: 3.1.spi.1-3, 3.2.spi.1, 3.3.spi.1, 3.3.spi.2, 3.5.spi.1-3, 3.6.spi.1-3

Mississippi Science Kindergarten: K.11st Grade: 1.22nd Grade: 2.23rd Grade: 3.1, 3.4 Arkansas Science Kindergarten: NS.1.K.2, NS.1.K.7, LS.2.K.1, LS.4.K.1 1st Grade: NS.1.1.2, NS.1.1.7, LS 2.1.22nd Grade: NS.1.2.2, NS.1.2.7, LS.2.2.2, LS.4.2.13rd Grade: NS.1.3.2, NS.1.3.8, ESS.8.3.1

Catholic Diocese of Memphis Science

Pre-K: I.3, I.4, II.1-3, II.5, V.5-7, VI.1, VI.3 Kindergarten: I.2, I.3, II.1, II.2, II.4, II.5, V.7, V.8, VI.4 1st Grade: I.3, II.1, II.3, II.4, V.4, V.6. V.9, VI.3 2nd Grade: II.1-5, V.5, V.7, V.8, VI.43rd Grade: I.4, II.2-6, VI.4, VI.5

Objectives1. Explain what paleontologists study, how they work, and the tools they use.2. Understand how fossils are formed and why scientists study them. 3. Recognize that non-avian dinosaurs are now extinct.4. Know the di�erence between a carnivore and a herbivore.5. Realize examination of teeth provides information about the daily life of dinosaurs.

Vocabularydinosaurextinct

paleontologistfossil

carnivoreherbivorecoprolite gastrolithAllosaurus

CamarasaurusIguanodon MaiasauraTriceratops

Tyrannosaurus rex

901.636.23623050 central Avenue • MEMPHIS, TN 38111WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG

PINK PALACE MUSEUM • 3050 CENTRAL AVE. • MEMPHIS, TN 38111WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG

RESERVATIONS: 901.636.2362

Book our traveling Pink Palace Museum Suitcase Exhibits. Check out Dinosaurs featuring lessons for grades K-5 with posters, books, teeth, claws, and lots of prehistoric models. Fossils has object-based learning for grades 3-8 that includes sifting through a bucket of Bone Valley ore. Magni�ers presents hands-on specimens for examination by grades K-2.

1. List animals that eat plants and animals that eat meat. Discuss kinds of teeth and the teeth of animals that are “Choppers, Strippers, Grinders, and Rippers”. Distribute carrots to students. Ask them to use their teeth to rake o� the outer layer, bite, and grind to eat like dinosaurs. http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/exhibitions/dinosaurs/fossil_basics.php2. Each Investigation Station has magnifying lenses. Practice observation skills by looking closely at objects. http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/inchsquare/index.html 3. Create impressions of leaves, feathers, twigs, and shells using salt dough, clay, Play-Doh, or polymer clay. Make crayon rubbings. http://onramp.nsdl.org/eserv/onramp:331/apr08_impression.pdf

1. Students construct a paleontologist’s notebook to record their observations.2. Using broken dog biscuits, students match up the pieces to re-assemble a bone just like paleontologists.3. Simulate a fossil dig by burying shells, rocks and bones in a shallow pan covered with sand. Using small paintbrushes, students gently excavate their fossils. They record observations in their notebooks.

Visit our Natural History Exhibits on the ground �oor. Examine a Triceratops skull, a Camarasaurus leg bone, and Mid-South marine fossils in our Walk Through Time gallery. Make your own dinosaur comparison to birds in the colorful Birds gallery.

Check your library for Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones by Byron Barton.Zoom Dinosaurs http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/Dinosphere – Indianapolis Children’s Museum http://www.childrensmuseum.org/themuseum/dinosphere/resources/bone_prep/index.htmTeachers Network http://www.teachnet-lab.org/glasgold/lesson_3.htmKids Know It Network http://www.kidsdinos.com/Internet4Classrooms http://www.internet4classrooms.com/earthspace.htm

Some scientists believe birds are relatives of dinosaurs. That would

mean our national symbol is a dinosaur (bald eagle).

Five dinosaur bones have been found in Tennessee. Marine

fossils are more common in our Mississippi Valley.

Even though T. rex was over 40 feet long, his brain

was just one foot.