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Make Your Own Liaoning Diorama

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Re-create the 130-million-year-old forest in what is now China to understand why this fossil site is of such vast scientific importance.


Make Your own Liaoning Diorama


  • More About This Resource...

    • This classroom activity was designed to complement Dinosaurs Alive! � an IMAX film that follows AMNH paleontologists around the globe as they uncover some of the greatest dinosaur finds in history. It includes:

      • A step-by-step lesson plan, in which students create a diorama or mural of the Liaoning forest and speculate about how the ecosystem functioned
      • A reproducible illustration of a Liaoning forest for students in grades K-2
      • A reproducible of a Liaoning forest diorama background with animal cutouts for students in grades 3-8

    • Completion Time

      Less than a week

    • Topic

      Paleontology

    • Subtopic

      General

    • Subtopic

      National Science Education Standards
      Grades K-4:

      • Life Science CONTENT STANDARD C:• Earth and Space Science CONTENT STANDARD D:• Science and Technology CONTENT STANDARD E:• Science in Personal and Social Perspectives CONTENT STANDARD F:• History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G:

      Grades 5-8:

      • Life Science CONTENT STANDARD C:• Earth and Space Science CONTENT STANDARD D:• Science and Technology CONTENT STANDARD E:• Science in Personal and Social Perspectives CONTENT STANDARD F:• History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G:

      Grades 9-12:

      • Life Science CONTENT STANDARD C:• Earth and Space Science CONTENT STANDARD D:• Science and Technology CONTENT STANDARD E:• Science in Personal and Social Perspectives CONTENT STANDARD F:• History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G:

    • Learning Standard

      National Science Education Standards
      Grades K-4:

      • Life Science CONTENT STANDARD C:• Earth and Space Science CONTENT STANDARD D:• Science and Technology CONTENT STANDARD E:• Science in Personal and Social Perspectives CONTENT STANDARD F:• History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G:

      Grades 5-8:

      • Life Science CONTENT STANDARD C:• Earth and Space Science CONTENT STANDARD D:• Science and Technology CONTENT STANDARD E:• Science in Personal and Social Perspectives CONTENT STANDARD F:• History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G:

      Grades 9-12:

      • Life Science CONTENT STANDARD C:• Earth and Space Science CONTENT STANDARD D:• Science and Technology CONTENT STANDARD E:• Science in Personal and Social Perspectives CONTENT STANDARD F:• History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G: