Exploring Extinction Discovery Tour
Overview
Travel back in time at the Delaware Museum of Nature and Science. Students will explore dinosaurs, fossils, and especially extinction through hands-on activities as well as inquiry-based learning. Meet an animal and figure out how they are related to prehistoric creatures.
Stations
- ancestor scavenger hunt
- fossil dig
- what is extinction?
- Meet a dinosaur
Standards
| NGSS: 1-LS3-1, 2PS1-1, 2-ESS1-1, 2-LS4-1 |
Details
- Live Animals: Yes
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Minimum number of students: 15
- Maximum number of students*: 125 students at the Museum, 25 per small group with Museum Educator
- Intended Grade Level: 1-2nd grade
- Location: at DelMNS
Discovery Tours
- Dino Descendants (Birds): PreK-K
- Home Sweet Habitat: PreK-K
- SENSE-ational Animals: PreK-1st
- Environments & Survival: K-4
- Exploring Extinction: Grades 1-2
- Cycle of Life: Grades 1-3
- Stones & Bones: Grades 4-8
- Delaware & Beyond: All Ages
- Self-Guided: All Ages
Mobile Museum Outreaches
- How to Museum: All Ages
- Dinos, Dinos, Dinos: PreK-K, 1-2, 3-5
- Amazing Animal Adaptations: PreK-K
- Buggin’ Out: PreK-K
- Looking Out My Backdoor: PreK-K
- Forces in Motion: PreK-1
- Earth’s Place in Space: K-2
- How It’s Made: 1-2
- Trait-astic!: 1-3
- Most Extreme Animals: 5-6
- Motions of the Ocean: K-2
- Pollinators Party: PreK-1