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• In this classroom activity, created to complement the Museum's Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries exhibit, young students investigate what paleontologists can tell from a dinosaur's teeth.

  • The activity opens with background information for teachers about dinosaur teeth.
  • Students begin by looking at animal photos and describing each creature's teeth.
  • They then conduct an experiment that helps them differentiate between the teeth of meat-eaters and plant-eaters .
  • The activity concludes with a student worksheet that challenges them to identify meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs.

• Completion Time

  Approximately 1 period

• Topic

  Paleontology

• Subtopic

  Fossil Dinosaurs and Birds