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Browse educational activities, videos, and games to enjoy at home, in the classroom, or to accompany your visit to the museum. Search by category to zero in on your interests.
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Teachers, borrow a box of hands-on lessons and activities in a variety of subjects (at no cost).
Toothpick tylosaurus
activities & lessons | Dinos of the Deep
Students use toothpicks to make a skeleton model of a sea reptile that lived more than 65 million years ago. view resource at National Geographic
Fossil impressions
activities & lessons | Dinos of the Deep
Students make molds and casts of objects to make their own fossils. view resource at National Geographic
Prehistoric animal adaptations
activities & lessons | Dinos of the Deep
Students investigate adaptations—changes in body parts or behaviors—that helped prehistoric marine reptiles survive in the Cretaceous period. view resource at National Geographic
Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
Dinos of the Deep | videos
For more than 10 million years, Megalodon was at the top of its game as the oceans’ apex predator…until 2.6 million years ago, when it went extinct. So what happened […]