The Field Site encourages you to practice your skills of observation and puts your senses to work. This rendition of an actual quarry is so true to life, you can experience what it’s like firsthand to conduct scientific work at a dig site.
Every excavation is like a great mystery novel, and as a paleontologist, it’s your job to uncover the clues. In this area of the exhibit, you will be challenged to look for patterns and small details in a rocky environment where fossils and bones can be found. Activities include:
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Making rubbings of fossils and sedimentary rock |
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Performing basic mapping, both horizontally and vertically |
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Taking measurements |
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Observing patterns in bone beds, fossils, and sedimentary rock formations |
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Recording data as field notes |
At each activity station in the Field Site, a high-definition, wide-screen video monitor takes the place of usual “how to”signs and labels.
Documentaries of young people working with paleontologists in an actual field site model what you should do at each step of the scientific process.
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The Field Site is a place that prompts questions but provides no answers. While this is the place where you gather data and form some ideas, you must move on to the next area, the Lab, to test them and make informed conclusions.
 
Lone Star Dinosaurs is currently in storage during Museum construction. Watch for its return Fall 2009!
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80-foot domed Omni Theater.