Natural Trap Cave

PBS Learning Media
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PBS Learning Media
Resource Type
Classroom Material
Keywords
excavate extinct fossil paleontologist Natural Trap Cave cave Wyoming Our Wyoming WyomingPBS Wyoming PBS Wyoming history Wyoming geology Wyoming geography Big Horn Mountains pit caves fossil pits scientific methods paleontology Late Pleistocene Pleistocene
Subjects
English-Language Arts Science
Grade Levels
Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8
Audience
Classroom Teacher / Educator
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Natural Trap Cave

Follow paleontologists as they explore an ancient cave that holds clues to what Wyoming looked like during the last ice age. They have to employ everything from single-rope caving techniques to ancient DNA analysis and radiocarbon dating to get as much data as they can during their three-year expedition.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: 

  • Students will be able to identify and use vocabulary words.
  • Students will explain how the fossil record indicates chronolgy.
  • Students will explain how the fossil record indicated change over time.
  • Students will examine real fossils or images of fossils and make hypotheses about what the fossils can tell scientists.
  • Students will explain why paleontologists study fossils
  • Students will explain how fossils provide evidence that environments change over time.
Publisher
PBS Learning Media

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