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Welcome to Funny Bones! This is an interactive curriculum web for those of you who are paleontologists at heart!
Or, maybe your Geology crazed Earth Science teacher made you come here but, nonetheless, I think you will enjoy
this introduction to paleontology..designed exclusively for student scientists!
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Introduction
“Funny Bones” is an interactive curriculum web
that is intended to familiarize sixth grade scientists with Earth’s expansive geologic history and the use of the fossil
record in creating the Geologic Time Scale. This website will provide information that make classroom fossil
studies interesting and fun. It includes links, labs, and EXTRA EXTRA! assignments. All students are expected
to work with their lab partner through the entire website and make sure they complete the following 4 requirements:
1. Fossil worksheet
2. Fossil lab
3. Timeline of Earth's history (15 events needed)
4. PowerPoint Project
Announcements
Updated 8/22/08
Search your houses tonight! You must bring in an egg carton and 5 objects
that are smaller than a quarter to complete your fossil lab on Thursday. Each student must bring in thier own supplies
in order to participate in the fossil making.
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The study of the forms of life existing in prehistoric or geologic times, as
represented by the fossils of plants, animals, and other organisms.
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