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Finding community among fossils

Grade Level(s):

  • 9-12
  • College

Source:

  • UC Museum of Paleontology

Resource type:

  • Science Story

Discipline:

  • Life Science

Time: 5 minutes

Overview

This Science Short illustrates how day-to-day community-level  interactions shape the course of science. Get tips on using Science Stories in class.

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Use multiple Science Shorts from different disciplines to illustrate how the same aspects of the nature and process of science play out in different research studies.