How do you safely remove the fossils from ice or snow?
How do you label the fossils? What do you use?
After you find the fossils, how do you transport them?
How many fossils have you found?
What feelings do you experience when you find fossils?
How has the size of Antarctica changed over the past 100 - 1000 years?
How did you feel when you first found out you were going to Antarctica? When you got there?
Do you plan on returning to Antarctica?
What college did you attend? What did you study?
Where were the burrows and animal trails you found? (location on Antractica)
How long does it take to catalog fossils? What happens with the fossils after they have been sorted and put in catalogs? Where are the fossils kept?
What happens if a fossil breaks or gets put in the wrong category/catalog?
What goes into studying fossils? What exactly do you do?
Were all the islands we see on a map part of Gondwana?
How do you know the different boundaries on Antactica? Are they labeled?
Hannah Kulas
1/7/2011 03:21:52 am

Have any of the fossils that you found broke? What would you do if it happened?

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raziel
1/7/2011 03:38:23 am

what temperature was it before it got cold?

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Mrs. Lewis
1/14/2011 04:04:21 am

Dear 5th Grade,
The sixth graders at Jones school were very excited to hear about your Anarctica communications. We were so excited, that we decided to complete a miniunit on Antarctica and follow your findings.

Earlier in the year, we had studied Pangaea, Continental Drift, and the Geologic Time Scale. We know that it is possible to have index fossils located in rock layers. Index fossils existed on Earth for a short time over a large geographic area. The trilobite is one type of index fossil. We also know that trilobites became extince during the Permian period and mammals first appeared during the Triassic period. We can't wait to hear more about the fossil evidence found and catalogued. Please keep sharing.

Together in learning,
Mrs. Lewis' Sixth graders
JE Jones, Cudahy

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Andrew
1/28/2011 03:18:59 am

The types of fossils they found are burrows, trace fossils a therapsid fossil and many others! They found over 1,000 fossils!!! Recently they found some petrified wood.

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Andrew
1/28/2011 03:21:40 am

One more i forgot is the lystrosuarus.

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1/28/2011 03:27:55 am

They found the BIGGEST fossil in Ant.

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Andrew
1/28/2011 03:28:40 am

They think it made a burrow they found.

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Andrew
1/28/2011 03:31:39 am

We read that they went back to mc murdo station a few days ago. They couldn't send emails for 1 or 2 days.

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Andrew Fossell
1/28/2011 03:33:55 am

They are coming back in febuary and in april they will come show us a few fossils they found.

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Annie
1/28/2011 03:35:10 am

Pete and Steve have also found several burrows in Antarctica. They found scratch markes by the burrow that was
1-2 cm wide and 40cm long. They think it was dug by a pig-like animal called Lystrosaurus.

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Steven Borck
1/28/2011 03:37:01 am

In Antarctica they found a lystrosaurus burrow.lystrosaurus is like a large pig-like therapsid.Therapsid were part mammal and part reptile.It led to humans.If there were no therapsids human life would not exist.It was one of the biggest burrows ever found in Antarctica!It was about 60 cm wide and about 4 m long.

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