Connecticut
Yale University, Peabody Museum, Whitney Avenue, New Haven. This museum has an interesting display of different dinosaurs from the three periods of the Mesozoic Era. Students will also see the bone structures of the dinosaurs and a natural depicting the age of the dinosaurs by R. Zallinger. Display located on the first floor of the museum. Small group on guided tours are accepted. Contact the museum for group schedules and rates.
Rocky Hill, Dinosaur Park. Twenty minutes from New Haven and ten minutes out of Hartford. This park is off Exit 23 on I-91, going toward Hartford. Signs are available once you exit off ramp. There is a museum which houses a display of the (tracking) system used to uncover dinosaur tracks. Dinosaur footprints can be made by students who are visiting. Contact museum for hours, size of group and cost.
Out-of-State
Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., National Museum of Natural History, this museum houses a comprehensive dinosaur collection. If you are visiting Washington, it is an interesting place to see.
Dinosaur National Monument, Jensen, Utah has a large display of dinosaurs, also Dinosaur Nature Association, Box 127, Jensen, Utah 84035 has books, maps, charts, slides, posters, calendars and much more. Please write.
Speakers
The list of speakers will include teachers from the New Haven School System who have participated in the Biomineralization Seminar. Please check curriculum units by Fellows of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute 1985, Volume VII.
