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Download this presentation to prepare students for an upcoming field trip and help create an unforgettable museum experience. Available in English and Spanish.

Download and print a scavenger hunt (in English and Spanish) prior to your visit or field trip! Recommended for fourth grade and above.

Download and print a scavenger hunt (in English and Spanish) prior to your visit or field trip! Recommended for fourth grade and above.

This activity addresses a common misconception young students have: that most fossils displayed in science museums belong to dinosaurs! Students will distinguish fossils as dinosaurs or non-dinosaurs using visible traits, drawings and information from museum labels.

In this activity, students will describe the relationship between a bird’s anatomy, particularly its beak size and shape, and its feeding behavior and diet. This is an excellent example of the principle of “form fits function” observed in biology.

Download a visual scavenger hunt, appropriate for preK-3rd graders. English and Spanish versions available.

Students will compare extinct mammoths and modern-day elephants by listing the differences and similarities between their appearances, diets, habitats, ranges and behaviors. They will closely observe the teeth of a mammoth, mastodon and gomphothere and relate their structure to the animals’ diets.

Students will observe an ecosystem on display, identify the predator/prey relationships among species, categorize animals as producers, consumers, carnivores, herbivores or omnivores, create a food web for the ecosystem and predict the effects of changes in the environment caused by living organisms, including humans.

In this activity packet students will describe how snakes use their senses, venom, colors, and other features to interact with their environment and protect themselves from prey. Students match snakes’ common and scientific names. They creatively color a snake to camouflage it and come up with a new name for their imagined new snake species.

In this activity packet, students will use bar graphs to count animals in communities. They will measure the length of a 𝘋𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘴 femur on exhibit and use fractions to model how paleontologists estimate an animal’s true size.

This packet is packed with fun activities and eye-opening facts that highlight the importance of sustainability. Students explore how the fashion industry and our daily choices impact the environment, learn how people from various careers have come together to tackle environmental challenges, and find out why recycling is just one piece of the puzzle.

In this mini-lesson presentation students will define a fossil and explain the differences between body fossils and trace fossils using a variety of Texas fossils.

With this mini-lesson help students explain the differences between meteoroids, meteors meteorites, and asteroids and describe the mass extinction caused by an asteroid 66 million years ago.

This mini lesson gives students the opportunity to define natural, human-made, renewable and non-renewable resources and distinguish between biotic and abiotic factors.