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002-Petrified Wood, Grades 1-5
Sample: Petrified wood that shows bark, growth rings, branches, or other structures easily identified as wood. Teaching Objectives: To show that petrified wood has been turned to stone (petr ...
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009-Brachiopod + Articulated Bivalve Grades 6-12
SAMPLE: - Brachiopod that clearly shows both valves - One articulated simple modern mollusk like a clamTEACHING OBJECTIVES: -To introduce the fossil Brachiopod -To show that some fossils are related ...
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010-Articulated Bivalve Grades 5-8
SAMPLE: — An articulated bivalve fossil (any fossil mollusk or brachiopod in which both shells of one individual are together)Teaching Objectives: — To introduce an articulated bivalve &m ...
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015-Diatomite Grades 4-10
SAMPLE: - A piece of diatomiteTeaching Objectives: - To introduce diatomite, diatoms, and the concept of a rock made of diatom shells or tests - To introduce the idea that a rock can be made of lit ...
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018-Shells, Modern & Fossil -- Grades 6-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: — Modern shell(s) — Fossil shell(s) identified by paleontologistsTeaching Obje ...
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024-Fossil Vertebra, Tertiary, Porpoise Grades 1-6
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - A large fossil vertebra from a marine animal like a porpoise, or a whale - A diagram of ...
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025-Fossil Vertebra, Tertiary, Whale Grades 1-6
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - A large fossil vertebra from a marine animal like a porpoise, or a whale - A diagram of ...
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026-Trace Fossils Grades 3-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- Shale (i.e., Devonian, from the Fingerlakes Region of New York State) showing the track ...
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029-Cobbles, Quartzite w/ Scolithus linearis Grades 6-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- A rounded stream cobble from the Potomac Conglomerate (Cretaceous, Eastern Maryland and ...
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030-Coal, Bituminus Grades 1-9
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - One or more pieces of coalTEACHING OBJECTIVES: - To introduce the shape and texture of ...
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032-Petrified Wood and Fossil Bone Grades 2-8
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: - A piece of petrified wood that shows bark or other structure easily identified as wood - ...
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038-Fossil-bearing Rock Grades 2-6
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - A rock sample packed with familiar-looking fossils (clams, snails, brachiopods, etc.)TEAC ...
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039-Shale with + Shale without Fossils Grades 6-9
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: - One piece of shale showing fossil shells - A piece of shale (or metamorphosed shale, cal ...
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042-Fossil limestone Grades 2-6
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- A piece of fossiliferous shale or limestone containing evidence for fossils such as crin ...
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046-Exogyra Grades 3-10
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: -- A nearly complete specimen of Exogyra (Cretaceous) showing thick shellTEACHING OBJECTIVE ...
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047-Gryphaea Grades 3-10
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: -- A nearly complete specimen of Gryphaea (Cretaceous) showing thick shellTEACHING OBJECTI ...
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055-Trilobite Grades 3-8
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions.SAMPLES: -- A well-preserved trilobite, preferably one still in the rock matrix.TEACHING OBJECTIVES: ...
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056-Horn Coral Grades 1-5
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions.SAMPLES: -- A well-preserved horn coralTEACHING OBJECTIVES: -- To introduce horn corals -- To show th ...
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057-Brachiopod Grades 3-5
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions.SAMPLE -- A piece of rock clearly showing brachiopods, or a single brachiopod -- TEACHER PROVIDED: A ...
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058-Toredo Grades 3-8 Worm, Tertiary, FL
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: -Tubes lived in by Toredo Mollusks.TEACHING OBJECTIVES: -To introduce the concept of boring ...
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066-Echinoderm Grades 1-4
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - A fossil echinoderm showing the five-arm star on its shellTEACHING OBJECTIVES: - T ...
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069-Fossils, Paleozoic, Indiana Grades 3-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: An assemblage of Ordovician age fossils from the Brookville, Indiana area Mystery inclu ...
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075-Fossil Leaves, Black Shale, Pennsylvanian Grades 2-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- A piece of black shale or mudstone clearly showing imprint of fossil leavesTEACHING OBJE ...
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079-Trace Fossil, Snail Trail Grades 2-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: Sandy mudstone showing clear trace of an animal, like a snail making a track across the b ...
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082-Shale w/ Leaf Fossils Grades 3-6
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- Shale with pieces of fossil leaves and stemsTEACHING OBJECTIVES: -- To encourage use of ...
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084-Coprolite Grades 2-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- Coprolite (kop-row-lite) samplesTEACHING OBJECTIVES: -- To show a very exciting TRACE ...
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087-Brain Coral Grades 3-6
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - A sample of brain coralTEACHING OBJECTIVES: - To introduce the coral type, Meandrina - To s ...
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103-Dentalia Grades 3-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - Several Dentalia shellsTEACHING OBJECTIVES: - To introduce the Mollusk called Dentalia - To ...
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110-Turritella Grades 1-4
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - Turritella fossilTEACHING OBJECTIVES: - To show that fossil snails (Turritella) grow in a ...
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111-Fossil Barnacles Grades 4-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - BARNACLE SHELLS (either modern, or fossil)TEACHING OBJECTIVES: - To introduce barnacles ...
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114-Coral,Miocene Age Grades 1-4
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - A typical Miocene coralTEACHING OBJECTIVES: - To introduce the concept of GEOLOGIC TIME - T ...
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117-Graptolites Grades 1-6
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - A piece of shale clearly showing one or more Graptolites TEACHING OBJECTIVES: - To introd ...
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121-Rock with Trilobite Pieces Grades 3-8
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - Several slabs of rock showing clearly pieces of Trilobites. - A good illustration of a ...
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123-Fossils,ID to species +location Grades 5-8
SAMPLES: A fossil identified to species with location where found and geologic ageTEACHING OBJECTIVES: To introduce fossil families, i.e. genus and species To strengthen the concept of geologic ...
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124-Fossil Sand Dollar Grades 5-8
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: One or two Pliocene-age sand dollars TEACHING OBJECTIVES: To introduce fossil sand doll ...
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125-Fossil Assemblage Grades 5-8
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: An assemblage of fossils TEACHING OBJECTIVES: To introduce the concept of fossil assembla ...
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127-Crinoid-bearing Rock Grades 1-6
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- A piece of limestone, or limey mudstone that clearly shows pieces of crinoidTEACHING OBJ ...
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129-Fossils, Pliocene Grades 3-6
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- A group of fossils that are representative of life on Pliocene-age, off-shore shoals nea ...
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130-Bryozoans, Tertiary Grades 5-8
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- A sample of Tertiary Age bryozoan clearly showing the fine network pattern.TEACHING OBJ ...
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134-Oyster, Ostrea Sinuosa Grades 6-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: A large, heavy valve (shell) from Ostrea sinuosa, the Paleocene oyster that was common alo ...
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138-Crinoids, loose pieces Grades 1-5
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- A piece or pieces of crinoid stemTEACHING OBJECTIVES: -- To introduce the important Paleo ...
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139-Ammonites, Germany Grades 7-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: A specimen of ammonite from the lower Jurassic age (Lias) in Germany. The shell must show ...
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140-Fossil Fish, Eocene Grades 4-10
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: A fossil fish in Eocene Age lake sediments of the Green River Formation, Wyoming, USA TEAC ...
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142-Large Mollusk Shell, Cretaceous Grades 3-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: A large fossil mollusk with both shells, or valves intact TEACHING OBJECTIVES: -- To introd ...
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059-Worm Burrows in Sedimentary Rock Grades 4-10
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. MYSTERY SAMPLE: A piece of drill core, or other rock that clearly shows burrows OBJECTIVES: To i ...
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146-Scleractinian Coral Identification Grades 11-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions.Sample: -- A piece of a colonial coral that shows several well preserved corallites (door to one cora ...
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147-Fossil Leaves and Stems Grades 1-4
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- A piece of mudstone or shale THAT IS NOT BLACK clearly showing leaves and/or stemsTEACHIN ...
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170-Fossil Trailways, Crawling Organism Grades 3-8
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- Silty or sandy shale showing the tracks of animals imprinted on bedding plane surface .T ...
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171-Ammonite Grades 7-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: An ammonite fossil shellTEACHING OBJECTIVES: -- To practice the taxonomic system of class ...
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186-Fossil Assemblage,Pliocene, Chuckatuck,VA Grades 3-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: An assemblage of fossils from Pliocene age sedimentary rocks near Portsmouth, Virginia ...
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187-Oyster, Ostrea sp. Grades 3-8
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: A large, heavy valve (shell) from Ostrea sp., the Tertiary oyster that was common along t ...
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188-Shell Hash Grades 1-6
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- Pieces of broken shell, etc. from an ocean beach or near shore environmentTEACHING OBJEC ...
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189-Fossil Assemblage, Ordovician Grades 4-10
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: An assemblage of Ordovician age fossils from the Cincinnati Group, Ohio/Kentucky/Indiana, U ...
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193-Fossil Assemblage, Cincinnati Group Grades 5-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: An assemblage of Ordovician age fossils from the Cincinnati Group, Ohio/Kentucky/Indiana, ...
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195-Graptolites Grades 7-9
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - A piece of shale clearly showing one or more Graptolites TEACHING OBJECTIVES: - To introd ...
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201-Ammonites, Jurassic, England Grades 7-12
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: A specimen of ammonite from the lower Jurassic age (Lias) in England. The shell must show ...
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206-Fossil Sea Urchin Grades 1-4
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: -- A fossil sea urchin showing some shell designTEACHING OBJECTIVES: -- To introduce the p ...
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226-Fish Vertebrae, Miocene Grades 4-8
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- Miocene fish vertebra from east coast, USATEACHING OBJECTIVES: -- To introduce fossil f ...
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050-Bryozoan,Stony,Ordovician Grades 2-5
Mystery includes rock, fossil, or mineral sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: - A sample of either loose pieces of stony bryozoans (the branched type common in the earl ...
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244-Trace Fossil in Limestone Grades 3-5
Mystery includes fossil sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLE: -- A slab of limestone showing the tracks of animals imprinted on a bedding plane surfaceTEACHING OBJECTIVES: ...
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247-Shale with & without fossils (any type) Grades 3-8
Mystery includes fossil sample and Mystery questions with teaching instructions. SAMPLES: - A piece of shale showing fossils; for example, leaf pieces (pictured), shell bits, or molds of snail-like ...
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003-Fossil Shark's Teeth, Grades 1-12
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