Kallie Moore manages the paleontology collection at the University of Montana and co-host the YouTube channel PBS Eons. She has also consulted for Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park on renovations to the DINOSAUR ride, as well as hosted a livestream for the newly opened Deep Time Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Kallie's debut nonfiction book, Tales of the Prehistoric World: Adventures from the Land of the Dinosaurs, releases this fall from Neon Squid books.
Travel back to the land before time to discover real dinosaur stories from the world of paleontology—featuring T. rex, Stegosaurus, and Triceratops.
Young children will enjoy thrilling tales of intrepid paleontologists discovering jaw-dropping fossils in the first book by Kallie Moore – fossil expert and host of PBS Eons on YouTube. Kids will come face-to-face with incredible prehistoric beasts including the dinosaurs that fossilized into gemstones, the shark with a saw in its mouth, and the pterosaur the size of an airplane!
As well as stories from the Jurassic era, beautifully brought to life by illustrator Becky Thorns, Tales of the Prehistoric World also whizzes back in time even further to meet the first walking fish, before speeding forwards to hang out with mammoths and saber-toothed cats.
Along the way young readers will discover what it takes to be a paleontologist!
I worked with some incredible PBS Digital All- Star Educators a few years back who created is unit called Understanding Plant and Animal Adaptations: Analysis & Media-Making if you wanted to dive deeper into this work and spend more time on how plants and animals adapt.
This unit uses Eons and other resources to explore adaptations which is part of survival. The lessons plans are off to the right side or you can access here with the project media files here
You may access and download the following video files, without sound, to share with your students for their final project.