The Dinosaur Museum Field Trip

After studying about D the Dinosaur, our classes visited the Brigham Young University Museum of Paleontology (formerly The Earth Science Museum).

Dimetrodon

We learned about fossils: the remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock.

The children enjoyed feeding money to the Dinosaur skull which roared when the coins passed through.

The students are sitting on a replica of a Brontosaurus femur bone.

Preston brought a Stegosaurus and was happy to find a mini replica like his next to some bones.

"Ohh! Ahh!"

Feeling petrified plants.

Some dinosaurs were small/tiny.

Armored dinosaurs had protective scales.

Behind the glass, preschoolers can watch paleontology students
remove bone from plaster blocks.

Dinosaur heads versus preschooler heads.

Carnivors (meat eaters) had sharp teeth and herbivores had dull, more square teeth.

Flying Dinosaurs wide wingspan.
We also had an opportunity to see minerals, fossils of plants and trees.
We enjoyed a small picnic snack of fruit sacks, pretzels, and mini water bottles outside the museum on the grass. After, we came back to the classroom and played with the student's choice of favorite toys.