Cretaceous Crime Scene

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Grades 6 – 11
$6 per student
1 hour
Capacity: 15 – 30 students

Challenge your students' investigative skills as they uncover forensic clues in a palaeontological mystery. By pursuing leads such as scarred bone, footprints, and weapons, students learn how palaeontologists and geologists use scientific evidence to reconstruct the past. This program now has two different crime scene scenarios to investigate.


Please Note:

Minimum program fees will be charged for groups of fewer than 15 students.



Curriculum Connections

Grade 6: Science – Climate Change; Ecosystems; Scientific Explanations

Grade 7: Science – Interactions and Ecosystems; Planet Earth

Grade 8: Science – Freshwater and Saltwater Systems

Grade 9: Science – Biological Diversity

Grade 11: Biology 20 – Ecosystems and Population Change, Science 20 – Changes in Living Systems


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