Museum ProgramsCretaceous Crime Scene
Challenge your students' investigative skills to uncover forensic clues in a palaeontological mystery. As they pursue leads like scarred bone, footprints, and weapons, students learn how palaeontologists and geologists use scientific evidence to reconstruct the past. This program now has two different crime scene scenarios for investigation.
Booking Information
Toll free in North America (outside Alberta)
1-888-440-4240
Toll free in Alberta
310-0000 then (403) 823-7707
Outside North America
1-403-823-7707
Email
tyrrell.bookings@gov.ab.ca
When booking your program please ensure you have the following information:
- School name and address (including street, town or city, province, and postal code)
- School phone and fax numbers
- Student information (grade(s), number of students, teachers, and chaperones attending)
Grades
6 -11
Class Size
15 - 30 students
Cost
$5/student
Duration
1 hour
Curriculum Connections
| Grade 6 | Science | Evidence & Investigation |
| Grade 7 | Science | Interactions & Ecosystems; Planet Earth |
| Grade 8 | Science | Freshwater & Saltwater Systems |
| Grade 9 | Science | Biological Diversity |
| Grade 11 | Biology 20 | Ecosystems and Population Change |
| Science 20 | Changes in Living Systems |
- Secrets of the Lost Quarry
- Palaeontology as a Career
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Preparation Lab
Watch as fossils found right here in Alberta are prepared by our technicians for research and display.
