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Fossils of Kentucky, Kentucky Geological Survey. Want to know about fossils and earth history in Kentucky? This is the site. Provides a brief earth history of Kentucky through time, images and descriptions of fossils found in Kentucky arranged by type of fossil, facts about fossils, and news briefs about fossils.

Learning from the Fossil Record, Paleontological Society.  An excellent resource. Provides more than 20 classroom activities about fossils and earth history, and has a National Science Standard Matrix with web links to more than 30 classroom activities, which demonstrate various aspects of the National Science Standards and are categorized by appropriate grade content. Activities about climate, dinosaurs, Earth history, fossils, and plate tectonics are just some of the topics offered.

The University of California Museum of Paleontology Provides on-line exhibits of fossils organized by type or age and has discussions about evolutionary theory.

Earth Window Educational Resources, Paleontological Research Institution. Provides tips for educators about teaching fossils in the classroom, and virtual field trips in which students can travel around the globe with paleontologists on fossil digs or open drawers of fossil collections around America.

Ecology Past, St. Louis Science Center, Missouri. Provides discussion about what fossils are and how they form, and a geologic time line, which is a virtual tour through the museums exhibits with information about Earth history in Missouri through time.

Life Over Time, Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois. Provides a virtual trip through the museum's exhibit Life Over Time, which is divided into Life Before the Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, and Life After the Dinosaurs. These sections provide a quick look at earth history through exhibits of the Museum. A Teachers Guide, is available, which includes the activities: Words from the Past; Prehistoric word search and crossword, How big was the animal?, and Prehistoric motion, a flip-motion book for Albertasaurus and Triceratops. A Media Guide lets you run the animations available in the other sections without the text. Also worth investigating at this site is, Sue at the Field Museum, which describes the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known, and also has games and flip-motion books for the classroom.

Hooper Virtual Paleontological Museum Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center, Canada. Provides a virtual tour of the museum with images of dioramas and explanations of numerous Earth Science topics. Besides fossils, topics include mass extinctions, human evolution, and earthquake hazards.

K–12 Earth Science On-Line Classroom Activities, Society of Sedimentary Geologists. This site is the on-line version of the society’s popular publication that has eight K–12 lesson plans about fossils.

Geologic time scales, links to on-line time scales with information about fossils organized by their geologic age.