Paleontologist Starter Kit

Paleontologist Starter Kit

• Grades: K-2
• Number of Students: 1

Highlights:

Discover the ins-and-outs of a career in paleontology! Use tools to excavate bones, then assemble them into a dinosaur skeleton display. Make amazingly detailed fossil impressions with a set of mini dinosaurs, modeling clay, and plaster. Read about the geologic timescale, how fossils are formed, and the on-the-job adventures of a real paleontologist. Then hang up a poster featuring colossal fossil facts and some of the most dazzling dinosaurs of prehistory. Ready to dig in to all things dino?

Curriculum or Lesson Topics:

• Prehistoric creatures
• Fossil information
• STEM professions

What’s Included:

• Materials required to learn basic paleontology subjects.
• excavation block (with bones inside)
• mallet
• chisel
• brush
• mess mat
• air-dry clay 1 oz (28 g)
• 3 modeling clay packs, each 3 oz (85g)
• 3 plaster of Paris packs, each 2 oz (56g)
• bone identification sheet
• support piece
• 6 paper cups
• 5 stir sticks
• 3 mini dinosaurs
• brown paint 1 fl oz (30 mL)
• scoop
• poster
• Step-by-step instructions to aid in the use of the kit
• folder of paleontologist information