Natural History Museum
143 Herty Hall
Georgia College
Milledgeville, GA
Judith Sanders, Senior Secretary Biological & Environmental Sciences, 201 Herty Hall (478) 445-0809 judith.sanders@gcsu.edu  (Please contact for appointment time.)
Dr. Al Mead, Associate Professor, Curator of Mammals
Dr. William Wall, Chairperson & Professor, Biological & Environmental Sciences

Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum opened in 2004.  It boasts one of the largest fossil vertebrate collection in the Southeast.  The museum opened after more than 20 years of collection fossils in local, national, and international soils.

The museum has many Ice Age fossils including a complete bison skull which was unearthed in Brunswick, GA.  There are marine fossils from Wilkinson County.  Other fossils come from North and South America.

 

 

GCSU Museum of Natural History

Special thanks to Graduate Assistant Claudia Schwabe (MAT 2006) for the lessons created below. They are correlated with the Georgia Performance Standards (GPS).

PRE-VISIT ACTIVITIES
1. Geologic Time Scale Questionnaire (EC, MG)
2. Geologic Time Scale (EC, MG)
3. Geologic Time Scales and Major Life Forms (MG)
4. Reptiles versus Amphibians (EC)
5. Adopt a Reptile or Amphibian (EC)
6. What if I Were a Dinosaur? (EC)

PRE, DURING, or POST ACTIVITIES
7. Fossil Match Game (MG, HS)
8. Fossil Word Search (MG, HS)
9. Word Scramble (MG)

DURING ACTIVITIES
10. Fossil Quiz (All grades)

DURING or POST-VISIT ACTIVITIES
 11. Crossword Puzzle - Fossils (MG)

PRE or POST ACTIVITIES
 12. Footprint Puzzle (All grades; rec. 5-8)
13. Mammals (EC, MG)
14. Dinosaur WebQuests (EC)

POST-ACTIVITIES
 15. Mesozoic Mural (MG)
 16. Ice Age Mural (MG)
 17. Ice Age Quiz (MG)
18. Ice Age Research (HS)
 19. T-Rex (MG)
 20. Digging Up Dinosaur Bones (All grades)

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