Educator Resources: Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs

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Plan your class field trip to the exhibition with these free resources. 
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Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs Educator's Guide

Get an advance look at the exhibition’s major themes and what your class will encounter. This seven-page guide for K–12 educators includes a Map of the Exhibition, Essential Questions (important background content), Teaching in the Exhibition (self-guided explorations), a Come Prepared Checklist, Correlation to Standards, and a Glossary.

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Activities and Materials

Grades K–2

Students observe a natural phenomenon—animals, including dinosaurs and mammals, have different kinds of specialized body parts—to investigate how animals use their body parts to live in their environments. 

Grades 3–12

Students observe a natural phenomenon—animals, including dinosaurs and mammals, have different kinds of specialized body parts that help them adapt to their environments—to investigate the traits that help animals adapt to their environments and what happens when the environmental conditions change. 

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