Logan Elementary School Students Really ‘Dig’ Dinosaurs

Friday, April 29, 2005

If you can’t go to the dinosaur, then have the dinosaur come to you. It can happen, and it did happen at the Logan Elementary School.



 John Ribbing who operates the Dinosaur Recovery Bureau, made honorary paleontologists out of the second graders at the school who were more than willing to dig. The students searched for bones that were buried in about 20 boxes of sand. While they dug, they used actual techniques practiced by paleontologists on real digs. As each bone was ‘discovered’ it was placed on a frame of the ‘unknown’ dinosaur and in about an hour or so the students had found all the bones necessary to make the skeleton of a 4 foot tall - 8 foot long, juvenile Maiasaura. The students then theorized about what caused the dinosaur to die. But the students weren’t alone. Several parents showed up and took part in the work. It was truly a unique, hands-on learning experience for everyone and an activity that any one can ‘dig.’