This section is presented to help teachers select reliable aids to the teaching of paleontology, from among the large number of Web sites available. The sites included here have been checked for scientific accuracy, but we are not competent to evaluate the teaching procedures suggested. If more detail on any particular topic is required, it might be found among our annotated Web sites.
Determining Ages of Rocks and Fossils
University of California Museum of PaleontologyDiscovering Dinosaurs
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Paleontology, With an Emphasis on Dinosaurs
Bureau of Land ManagementPaleoenvironment - Where Can I See the Sea?
University of California Museum of Paleontology
Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science
National Academy of Sciences
United Kingdom
Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight
Dinosaur Isle (formerly Museum of Isle of Wight Geology)Twenty Fossil Collecting Sites in England
Kids Ark, c/o Life Projects Ltd.
United States
Some 120 US Fossil Localities, grouped by State
Evidently by one M. PeronaThirteen Fossil Localities in Indiana and Kentucky
Falls of the Ohio State ParkMaryland Sites
Maryland Geological SurveyPennsylvania Sites
Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
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