LABORATORY
FOR DINOSAURS AND THE HISTORY OF LIFE

LAB SYLLABUS

Lab # Week Of Lab Title
Wed 1/17/01 No Lab Meeting
1 Mon 1/22/01 Types of Rocks and Fossils
2 Mon 1/29/01 Fossil Preservation, Diversity of Life
3 Mon 2/5/01 Measuring "Absolute" and Relative Geological Time
4 Mon 2/12/01 Judging Relationships of Organisms - Systematics
5 Mon 2/19/01 Earth Cycles
6 Mon 2/26/01 Introduction to Dinosaurs
7 Mon 3/5/01 Ornithischian Dinosaurs (self guided at AMNH*)
- Mon 3/12/01 No Meeting - Spring Break
8
Mon 3/19/01
No Meeting - Midterm Exam Week
9 Mon 3/26/01 Saurischian Dinosaurs I (self guided at AMNH*)
10 Mon 4/2/01 no lab
11 Mon 4/9/01 Saurischian Dinosaurs II (seff guided at AMNH*)
12 Mon 4/16/01 Dissection of a Dinosaur - The Pigeon
13 Mon 4/23/01 Making and Interpreting Dinosaur Footprints

* AMNH = American Museum of Natural History 


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