Curriculum Content

Planning your field trip to TMM

• Guide for Teachers and Chaperones

Hall of Geology and Paleontology

• Background Information for Educators
• Educator Guide, Grades 3–5
• Educator Guide, Grades 6–8
• Fossil Quest (grades 5-7)
• Fossil Storybook (grades K-4)
• Is It a Dinosaur? (grades K-8)
• Meet the Proboscideans (grade 5)
• The Story of a Fossil - Cretaceous (grades K-4)
• The Story of a Fossil - Ice Age (grades K-4)

Hall of Texas Wildlife

• Hide and Beak (grades 3-5)
• Puma Case Species Interactions (grades 1-5)
• Name the Snake (grades 5-7)

Hall of Biodiversity

Activities for Exploring the Whole Museum

• My Visit to the Museum (grades K-5)
• Scavenger Hunt
• Scavenger Hunt – Bilingual (English/Spanish)

Activities for Home or the Classroom

• Create an Amber Fossil (grades 3-5)
• Create a Fossil Cast / Mold (grades 3-5)
• Fossil Pasta Skeletons (grades preK-2)
• Modeling Petrified Wood (grades 4-8)
• Landforms & Natural Resources (grades 3-5)
• Sidewalk Dinosaur Trackway Activity (grades 4 and up)
• Modeling Mammal Scat (grades K-5)
• Extinct Animal Skeleton Diagrams