Dino Bones

Scott showed us fossils that he found in the Badlands of Alberta.

I couldn't resist this shot of Shayla as Scott talks about coprolite.  You'll have to ask your child what coprolite is in order to understand Shayla's perfect expression.

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We used fossil moulds and plaster to create our own plaster fossil casts .  This is similar to the technique that a paleontologist would use to replicate a fossil.

While we wait for our fossil casts to dry, we excavate a dig site.

Scott shows us a real fossil cast.

We carefully try to put the discovered bones back together using clues at the dig site.

Here are a few of the fossils we made.  I kept a list of each students fossil.  Contact me if you have forgotten what your fossil is.  

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