Paleontology Activities and Links
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If you come across an excellent resource, let us know at hello@harborandsprout.com so we can add it to the list!Interactive Worldwide Fossil Map: https://paleobiodb.org/navigator/
Worldwide Fossil Database: https://paleobiodb.org/#/
Interactive 3-D fossil collection: https://umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/
How Do Dinosaur Fossils Form?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87E8bQrX4Wg&list=TLGGTBJSmbuqrZowODA1MjAyMw
How Does a Dinosaur Become a Fossil? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f5HehQovx8
Amateur Paleontologist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzdiZnuZlZE
Plate tectonics (CrashCourse): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CPv0NSIG2M
How old is everything? (Crash Course) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2381lUhqc0
Extraction at La Brea Tar Pits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMuxQWvok2M
History of Paleontology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhWylzOryws
TED talk History of American Paleontology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwBYqwE9-Do
Lamarck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOS9DtSSxik
Darwin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOk_0mUT_JU
Paleontology in the 2000s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp-6io8Oydk
Cambrian Explosion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzZa_J2NHmQ
Cambrian Period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UcHoQeooB4
Gentle Giants of the Cambrian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aLd8NN0YtY
Crinoid facts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vdWvOlU-bY
Ordovician Period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1_cOZ0YJTc
Secrets of the Ordovician period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y8NfXCn5NE
Silurian Period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYn089fGwF4
Devonian Period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiLllhFsQMg
Carboniferous Period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ATQsL3NMU
Early Permian Period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lffDzIeYcDw
Late Permian Period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tqGk06BSaM
Paleogeography animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNmUd43pabg
The Great Dying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUQl5Acrc7U
That Time it Rained for 2 Million Years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1LdMWlNYS4
Hybondont Sharks (India Narrative): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvFTvC4gF6Q
Why were Triassic animals so weird? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGy4fh81INU
Silosaurus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1e1L11f3yE
Sharovipteryx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzfvva0ftqE
Jurassic Period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoHO3fAj_78
Cretaceous Period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acu6VytcvXQ
When Birds Had Teeth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGR5yOrChMA
Mesozoic formations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTTd6YrOnVQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnoLN1AyQVY
Deinonychus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCE8H3dKJm4
Terror Birds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_QOEN1a3V4
Concrete poetry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akptaI-dTKw
How to write a concrete poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jik01dg3SKk
E.E. Cummings l(a : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXP-7byD7fo
Concrete poetry examples: https://www.nowaterriver.com/community-collection-20-concrete-poems-with-susan-hood/
How E.E. Cummings writes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kffo3pxNO7c
Mary Anning- Princess of Paleotology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-CW0B4YeBQ
An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDnQmBFxIfE
Paleoart through time (some cursing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZDu-3ZB5Sk
Paleo-artists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0M9aJw8Mz8
Paleoart (about the book): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj4qh-JGS7Q
Science and Paleoart: Julius Csotonyi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6q5jrHgGnI
Why I love Paleoart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onz2HOF654A
Try creating your own depiction of an extinct animal: https://tarpits.org/learning-resource/diy-paleoart#:~:text=When%20art%20and%20science%20work,best%20examples%20of%20these%20animals
The mathematical harmonic series (Khan Academy): https://www.khanacademy.org/math/ap-calculus-bc/bc-series-new/bc-10-5/v/harmonic-and-p-series
Music Theory Harmonic Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx_kugSemfY
Hrmonic Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OATjHiOuc70
Make music using sine waves: https://ibmathsresources.com/2015/01/10/making-music-with-sine-waves/
3-D fossil models: https://umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/
Method of Stereology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwebKnLLRB0
Stereology in Quantitative Histology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQcr06nDDBw
Stereology for Beginners (over an hour long): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWGmuL_egmo
Literary devices, definitions, and examples: https://writers.com/common-literary-devices
The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs: Second Edition by Gregory S. Paul
The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Sea Reptiles by Gregory S. Paul
Introduction to Paleobiology and the Fossil Record by Michael J. Benton and David A. T. Harper
Fossils Inside Out: A Global Fusion of Science, Art, and Culture by Thomas Wiewandt
The Fossil Book: A Record of Prehistoric Life by Patricia Vickers Rich
Smithsonian Handbooks: Fossils by David Ward
The World Encyclopedia of Fossils and Fossil Collecting by Steve Parker
Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life by DK and Smithsonian Institution
Explorers of Deep Time by Roy Plotnick
Paleontology: An Illustrated History by David Bainbridge
The Dinosaurs Rediscovered by Michael J. Benton
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of Their Lost World by Steve Brusatte
Dinosaur Bones and What They Tell Us by Rob Colson
Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Life by Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan