Looking for information on dinosaur digs where a ten year old could participate in digging real dinos...?

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Looking for information on dinosaur digs where a ten year old could participate in digging real dinos...?

Answer 1

try allexperts.com

Answer 2

Since I don't know where you are, I can't give you specifics. If you are in Central Fl, The Orlando History Center is doing a camp on Friday  Oct 19th from 9am-3pm dealing with Archeology (along the same lines) ...since they use some of the same methods for Archeology and Palentology.

There are a few Dinosaur games like....Dino Excavation Game--Roaring T-Rex-- by DiscoveryKids at DiscoveryKids.com

Tricerotops Floor Puzzle

Monopoly Jr. Dig-n-Dino

also try www.floridafossilhunters.com (407-699-9274) as they might be able to direct you better.

Mine wants to be a Palentologist when she grows up and she'll be 10 in Jan (we are holding a Palentological Dig for her birthday).

The Royal Tyrell Museum in Canada will send FREE Newsletters ( it's all Dinos).

Go to www.sedl.or/scimath/pasopartners/dinosau...

for dino lessons.

I really wish I could help you more, but I hope these little things help.

Good Luck

Answer 3

i'm pretty sure if anyone knows where to find dinosaurs they aren't going to let a ten year old do it.

Answer 4

Hard to answer since only you know where you are. We have a place in North Texas that is pretty cool, but as far as finding a place in your area, start with a homeschool group. Homeschool moms know about almost every fun and educational thing to do in the area.

Answer 5

The Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, in South Dakota.  Junior Paleontologist Program seven days a week through Aug. 15. Participants dig for replicas of actual bones found at the site.

Answer 6

There are thousands of bits of dinosaur and fossils all over. I have no idea where you live, but you can start fossil hunting at any cut in the roadside where rock is exposed. Getting permission to go into a gravel quarry is even better. Talk to the workers, they'll tell you where to find things like mastodon teeth if you ask.

I have a collection that recently made a paleontologist drool, and I've picked it all up on private land. I have bits of several different dinosaurs, dinosaur poo, sharks teeth, shells, ferns, leaves, petrified wood, and all sorts of other things.

The trick is learning what to look for. I recently visited my grandmother in Republic, Washington. They have a big "dig" site there where they're finding all sorts of new fossils. They charge $20 and they look at all your fossils, take what they want, let you pick three you'd like, then keep the rest also.

Crappy deal.

I looked at the type of rock they were finding the fossils in, went  to my grandmother's back yard and picked up a feather, two ferns, several leaves and some grasses. I spent about an hour looking and a couple hours prepping the pieces. I've got some really nice specimens I'm sure the "dig" people would have confiscated and they would now be sitting a box in some corner some where instead of displayed in my cabnets for homeschoolers, tourists and other interested people. I've worked for museums. I know what they do.

Join a rock or fossil club if you're in an urban area, but don't let anyone tell you that you can't pick up fossils and dinosaur bones are just fossils.