UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Dinosaur Tracking
Science activities for the understanding and interpretation
of dinosaur tracks.
By Terence & Cathy Cavanaugh
Dinosaur Tracking is a student and teacher resource, written by
classroom science teachers. The electronic (eBook) version of the book contains
information, illustrations, and activities for learning about dinosaurs through
their tracks. Activities include making fossil tracks, studying trackway
diagrams to determine size and speed of dinosaurs, making scale models of
dinosaurs, studying human tracks on the moon, and using the computer to study
dinosaurs.
Table of Contents
FOSSILS
FOSSILS AND FOSSIL TYPES
DINOSAUR DEFINITION
FOSSIL TRACKWAYS
FORMATION
INTERPRETATION
Trackway diagram of all major points (biped and
quad)
FORMULA SHEET
DINOSAUR FORMULAS
CONVERSION FACTORS
ACTIVITIES
TRACKWAY MATH PROBLEMS
DINOSAUR MODELS
Standing
cut-outs
Dinosaur Wall or Floor Murals
TRACKING A BABY DINOSAUR
Biped Trackway: Eubrontes
Quadruped Trackway: Iguanodontid
DINOSAUR BIPED FOOTPRINT STENCILS
Small
Medium
Large
CREATING YOUR OWN TRACKWAY ACTIVITY
IN THE CLASSROOM
SIDEWALK TRACKWAYS
FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS
Walking/Running
Biped/Quadruped
Herbivore/Carnivore
MOON STEPS
MULTIPLE TRACKWAY ACTIVITY (ON PAPER) INTERPRETATION (WITH SCALE)
HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN FOSSILS AND TRACK CASTS
How to Make Your Own Fossils
How to Make Casts of Real Dinosaur Tracks
COMPUTER PROGRAMS
BASIC PROGRAM
SPREADSHEET PROGRAM
INTERNET AND THE WORLD WIDE WEB
TRACKS AND RESOURCES
DINOSAUR TRACKS AND TRACKWAY LOCATIONS
Location Addresses
Sample Letter to get information about a tracksite
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY RESOURCES
Resource Addresses
Sample letter to get geologic or fossil
information
TEACHER INFORMATION RATIONALE
CLASSROOM USE/SUBJECT AREAS
BENCHMARK STANDARDS
DINOSAUR TRACKER CERTIFICATE
(PDF)
REFERENCES
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