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Geologist Elizabeth Cottrell gestures with her hands while sitting at a table talking to two students.

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A rock with yellow and white crystals
Natural History Learning Lab Collections
A large poster coming out of a printer being grabbed by two hands
Do-It-Yourself Exhibits: Free, Print-On-Demand Exhibition Toolkits
Drawing of skeleton of Megatherium cuvieri
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Explore more than 300 resources! Science resources in this library align with Disciplinary Core Ideas and Crosscutting Concepts from the Next Generation Science Standards and social studies resources support the themes in the National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies. 

 

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Illustration of a crossection of a hillside showing horizontal geological layers, some of which have fossils in them.

It's a Date

A Deep Time Lineages Activity
Hands-On Activities
Video still with three images: A person holding up a drawing of a crocodile-like creature with a really long tail; a man with a beard standing next to an easel with a similar drawing on it; and a person signing in American Sign Language.

Webinar: Natural History at Home – Paleo Portraits

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Grey stone with brown leaf imprint

Reading Climate Change from Fossil Leaves

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Small shells of various sizes and shapes.

Tracking Global Change Through Ocean Fossils

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Overhead view of a long, triangular fossil skull

Triassic Life, Extinction, and Recovery

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An insect with large wings on the branch of a plant

Plant-Insect Relationships Through Time

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A bearded man wearing a brown fedora, standing behind a table with two large, gray fossils on it. One fossil is roughly triangular in shape, while the other is long and thin and arches upward at one end.

Fossil Whales and Whale Evolution

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Scientist cleaning bones in dinosaur. He is wearing a respirator mask, earphones, and glasses to protect himself from the dust and noise that this process generates

Fossil Preparation from Field to Museum

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Natural objects, including whitish piece of bone and brown rocks, on cracked, gray substrate.

Fossilization - How Fossils Form

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Video screenshot showing a presentation slide with six numbered objects on it; one looks like a large tooth.

Webinar: Natural History at Home – What Is a Fossil?

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Asian elephant illustration

Elephant Evolution

A Deep Time Lineages Activity
Hands-On Activities
Paleoartists Bob Walters standing next to an easel with a drawing of a dinosaur on it.

Webinar: Natural History at Home – Dinosaur Drawings

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