- Appearance and Anatomy
- This lesson covers the diversity in dinosaur appearances, and will be able to identify major features of the major groups of dinosaurs.
- Death and Fossilization
- This module describes how fossils form, how we interpret the taphonomy of skeletons and bonebeds, and looks at the possible biases taphonomic events may create in the fossil record.
- Eating
- This module looks at the variety of food types, feeding habits, and feeding adaptations amongst the major groups of dinosaurs.
- Moving Around
- This module helps students understand the general modes and styles of locomotion in the major dinosaur groups. It also describes general methods of evaluating hypotheses on locomotion.
- Birth, Growth and Reproduction
- This module provides a generalized life history of a dinosaur, from birth through adulthood, including reproduction. The student will be able to describe major techniques of evaluating growth stages and rates in dinosaurs.
- Attack and Defense
- Examines the behaviours and structures that may have served for attack or defence through the lifetime of a dinosaur.
- What is a Species?
- This module will teach the different ways of defining what a species is. Students will be able to compare the strengths and weaknesses of different species concepts for different situations.
- Evolution
- This module will describe the basic theories of speciation, and discusses how how these different methods of speciation may have occurred, including both hypothetical and empirical examples.
- Stratigraphy and Geologic Time
- This method provides basic stratigraphic concepts and the scale of earth history. Students will understand the evolution of dinosaurs through time, including which groups evolved when and where.
- Paleogeography and Plate Tectonics
- This module presents the basic concepts in plate tectonics and the evolution of the earth’s surface.
- Dinosaur Origins
- This module will look at the evolution of dinosaurs from non-dinosaurian archosaurs.
- Dinosaur Extinction
- The module will examine the end-Cretaceous extinction event, and provide examples of vertebrate groups that both persisted and died out during the event.
