This section provides parents and educators with additional educational resources for teaching students about pre-historic life.  Here you will find books and online resources. Click on the links below for information.

Books

Kenneth Carpenter,The Dinosaurs of Marsh and Cope: The Jurassic Dinosaurs of Garden Park (Canon City: Garden Park Paleontology Society, n.d.).

James O. Farlow and M.K. Brett-Surman, The Complete Dinosaur (Bloomington:Indiana Universty Press, 1997).

Thomas W. Henry, et al., Geologic Guidebook to the Gold Belt Byway, Colorado (Gunnison: Gold Belt Tour Scenic and Historic Byway Association, 2004).

Kirk R. Johnson and Richard K. Stucky, Prehistoric Journey (Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, 2006)

Craig A. Munsart, Investigating Science with Dinosaurs (Englewood, CO: Teacher Ideas Press, 1993).

Judith G. Scotchmoor, et al., Dinosaurs:The Science Behind the Stories (Alexandria:American Geological Institute, 2002).

Online Resources

Lesson plans to use in the classroom

Matching game

Useful terms and vocabulary

Description of fossils found at the Cope-Lucas Quarry

Description of fossils found at the Cleveland-Delfs Quarry

Description of fossils found at the DeWeese Quarry

Description of fossils found at the Kessler Quarry

Description of a Late Jurassic environment, Temple Canyon

Photograph of Late Jurassic Gingko, Temple Canyon

Photograph of Late Jurassic fish, Temple Canyon

Dinosaur Depot Museum Exhibits Page

Dinosaur Depot Museum, Cañon City, Colorado

Stories from the Fossil Record - online lessons produced by UC Berkeley, California