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Learn About the Adventure
Learn About the Adventure
Current requirements can be seen HERE as well as found in your rank manual - along with great ideas for completion. We guide you through the completion of the requirements in bold below.
Complete the following Requirements.
Play a game that demonstrates your knowledge of dinosaurs, such as a dinosaur match game.
Create an imaginary dinosaur. Share with your den its name, what it eats, and where it lives.
Complete one of the following:
(a) Make a fossil cast.
(b) Make a dinosaur dig. Be a paleontologist, and dig through a dinosaur dig made by another member of your den. Show and explain the ways a paleontologist works carefully during a dig.
Make edible fossil layers. Explain how this snack is a good model for the formation of fossils.
Office/ School Supplies
Office/ School Supplies
Household
Household
Item to fossilize (a small toy)
heavy books
Kitchen
Kitchen
Water
3 slices of bread
Art Supplies
Art Supplies
#1 | Dinosaur Game
#1 | Dinosaur Game
#2 | Imaginosaurus
#2 | Imaginosaurus
Create an imaginary dinosaur!
Materials: ☐ Dice cube, ☐ paper, ☐ pencil/ crayons/ markers etc.,
Activity: Free draw to create a dinosaur of your own creation. Stumped? Use our Roll-A Dinosaur Guide for some inspiration. Feeling inspired? Dig through the recycling and go 3-D!
Roll-A Dinosaur Guide
Directions: Use a die from a game and roll to determine the characteristics of your dinosaur. Circle each characteristic as you roll then design your dino!
#3 | Make A Fossil Cast
#3 | Make A Fossil Cast
Fossils are the remains or impression of a prehistoric organism, or living thing, preserved in earth or rock. Examples of fossils include skeletons, leaf prints, or footprints embedded in the earth’s crust. The only known Tyrannosaurus rex tracks in the world were discovered at Philmont Scout Ranch, the first in 1983 and the second in 2009. Philmont is located in the Rocky Mountains, near Cimarron, New Mexico. You might have a chance to see it in person if you take a backpacking trip to Philmont when you become a Boy Scout or Venturer.
Some fossils, like the T. rex footprint at Philmont Scout Ranch, formed when a dinosaur stepped onto soft ground and left a print. When the ground hardened, a fossil formed. Today, you will have the chance to make your own fossil!
CAST A FOSSIL
Materials:
☐ Model Magic and
☐ your fossil (a leaf, a toy - dinosaur, bug, etc., sticks, rocks)
Instead of soft ground, you will use model magic.
Roll your clay into a ball in your hand. Press it out to at least ½ inch thick. It is OK if it looks a little bit lumpy. The ground is lumpy too.
Press a leaf, toy dinosaur, plastic bug, spider, or another object into the clay. You can even use sticks and rocks to form a dinosaur foot!
Carefully remove the object. The impression (the dent left behind by your object) is just like the impressions left behind by dinosaurs!
Leave it alone for a few days to let the fossil set.
#4 | Edible Fossil Layers Model
#4 | Edible Fossil Layers Model
Different types of soil, rock, and weather affected the way fossils formed. Sometimes an object was encased, or completely covered, sometimes it became soft and dissolved, and sometimes rock formed around it. To show fossil layers, we are going to make a display that you can eat!
Materials:
☐ Paper towels or plastic wrap,
☐ 3 slices of bread (3 different types is best - white, wheat, rye),
☐ gummy candy,
☐ heavy books,
☐ clear straw
Directions:
The Ocean floor: Remove the crust from the slice of white bread. Place it on a paper towel. This is the sandy ocean floor. Put a few gummies on the bread to represent dead marine life.
Sediment: Place the rye bread on top to represent ocean currents depositing sediments on top of the dead marine life and it all settling.
Put more gummies on top then add the last slice of bread. This represents more sand and sediments naturally settling over millions of years.
Fold the paper towel over the bread fossil.
Pressure: Place the heavy books on top of the bread to simulate the natural process of pressure.
Leave it alone for a while to simulate millions of years passing. At least eight hours, but no more than two days.
Eat the leftover gummies.
Core Sample: Use a straw to collect a “core” sample and observe the layers.
Try to separate the layers and identify the fossil molds
Residue: You might notice colors that have transferred from the gummies to the bread. Remains of plants and animals seep into the rocks and leave deposits that will become oil and natural gas.
Activity Source: https://www.earthsciweek.org/classroom-activities/fossil-formation from the Society of Petroleum Engineers
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