The Fossil Factory: A Kid's Guide to Digging Up Dinosaurs, Exploring Evolution, and Finding Fossils

by Niles Eldredge, Douglas Eldredge, Gregory Eldredge

Overview

A fun and fact-filled activity book about discovering and collecting, about the history of the Earth, and the record of life we find on its surface, children will revel in this guide to over 50 sites where they can find something Paleozoic. Also included are a dozen amazing science activities and a complete guide to fossil hunting.

Ages 5-8

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570984174
Publisher:	Rinehart, Roberts Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	07/23/2002
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Niles Eldredge is curator of invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History. Douglas and Gregory Eldredge are his two sons.

Table of Contents

	Dig In!	8
	How Animals Disappear	10
	A Grave Matter	10
	Hard Rock, Soft Rock	11
	Making a Good Impression	12
	Cast Party	13
	Out in the Field	14
	Collecting Dos and Don'ts	16
	Bumper Outcrops	18
	Bubble, Bubble, Soil and Rubble	18
	Fossil Spotting	19
	Digging Up More Facts	19
	Taking Care of Your Fossils	20
	The Elusive Dinosaur	21
	A Lucky Trip	21
	Once Upon a Time	22
	Here, Dino!	22
	Right from the Start	24
	Fossil Riddles (As Old as the Hills)	26
	Gondwana What?	28
	Bump and Grind	30
	Which Came First?	31
	Carbon Dating	31
	A Sedimental Journey	34
	Make Your Own Grand Canyon	35
	Cool Times	36
	The Continental	38
	Dinosaur Hunting	40
	Living Fossils	41
	Double Treat on the Beach	42
	Caught in the Act	43
	What, No Fossils Near You?	44
	Assembly Required	45
	In the Living World	46
	Skin and Bones	47
	Dinosaur Detectives	48
	Iggy Pop	49
	Stuck on Fossils	50
	The World's Biggest Model Airplane	51
	The First Fossils	52
	Climbing Our Family Tree	53
	Pure Shellfishness	54
	A Squirt of a Squid	55
	Trilobites	56
	Ex-animals	57
	Danger!	57
	It's Easy Being Green	58
	Green Slime	60
	Something Fishy	61
	Amphibious Landings	62
	Frog Babies	63
	Thick-skinned	64
	The Naked Egg	65
	The Oldest Trees	66
	The Age of Reptiles	67
	The Great	68
	The Terrible	69
	Neither Fish nor Fowl	70
	Meet the Duckbills	72
	Walking Tanks	73
	Say It with Flowers	74
	Were Dinosaurs Dumb?	76
	Gone!	78
	Meteors and Meat-eaters	79
	Going, Going ...	80
	What If?	81
	Mammal Time	82
	Our Nearest Relatives	84
	Lucy and the Fossil People	85
	Thrice the Rice	85
	Standing Tall	86
	Land of the Giants	88
	The First Americans	90
	Future Humans	92
Appendix 1	Time Line	94
Appendix 2	Hunting on Holiday	100
	Index	109