Advisory 4 (part-time students)
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From Godzilla to Jurassic Park, dinosaurs continue to captivate us. In this course, students will learn about the fascinating creatures both large and small that roamed the earth before modern man. Watch interesting videos from experts at The Royal Tyrrell Museum, a leading paleontology research facility, and discover how the field of paleontology continues to provide amazing insight into early life on earth.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of biodiversity by describing ecosystems and adaptation, explaining natural selection, and summarizing evolution.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of early inhabitants by explaining dinosaur categories, differentiating elements of organisms, and describing vertebrate evolution.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of evolution by describing new species, summarizing extinction events, and explaining modern extinction.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of paleontology by describing earth studies, explaining geological cycles, and summarizing origin of life theories.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of paleontological history by describing vertebrates through time, explaining the foundations of paleontological studies, and explaining technology for paleontological studies.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of taxonomy by explaining classification, explaining complications to classification, and describing dinosaur groupings.
Learn about the fascinating creatures both large and small that roamed the earth before modern man.