About Learning from the Fossil Record

About Learning from the Fossil Record

This is a hypertext version of a book originally published by the Paleontological Society. Peruse an edited version of the original preface. Information originally carried on the cover is shown below.

The book was written to accompany an educational workshop Learning from the Fossil Record presented for K-16 educators at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of American in Denver, Colorado. The workshop was intended to give K-12 teaches information on how scientists use fossil evidence to reconstruct the past. It also offered ideas about using paleontology to teach the scientific process.

PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY
PAPER NUMBER TWO
1996

THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY
SOCIETY FOR VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY
IN COOPERATION WITH
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA -- MUSEUM OF PALEONTOLOGY
CUSHMAN FOUNDATION
DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

EDITED BY JUDY SCOTCHMOOR AND FRANK K. MCKINNEY

WILLIAM I. AUSICH AND LOREN E. BABCOCK, SERIES EDITOR
A PUBLICATION OF THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY