Objectives: 1.) Students will gain knowledge of early paleontologists.

2.) Students will learn how the Scientific Method was used to arrive at present day ideas.

3.) Students will learn how to apply the Scientific Method to their own dinosaur studies.

Materials: 1.) Pen and Paper.

2.) Wrinkly brain to store information in and think up new thoughts with.

NSESs Met (gr. 5-8): 1.) History of Science: "Many individuals have contributed to the traditions of science. Studying some of these individuals provides further understanding of scientific inquiry, science as a human endeavor, the nature of science, and the relationships between science and society." (http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/html/6d.html#csb58...a NSES website).

2.) Nature of Science: "Scientists formulate and test their explanations of nature using observation, experiments, and theoretical and mathematical models. Although all
scientific ideas are tentative and subject to change and improvement in principle, for most major ideas in science, there is much experimental and
observational confirmation. Those ideas are not likely to change greatly in the future. Scientists do and have changed their ideas about nature when
they encounter new experimental evidence that does not match their existing explanations." (http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/html/6d.html#csb58....a NSES website).

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