Teacher Resources
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Excavation 101 Video
This short video will walk you and your students through the basics of excavating fossils from the tar pits. Then you can see excavations happening in person in Hancock Park on your field trip!
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Study Guide
Return to the Ice Age: The La Brea Exploration Guide
This downloadable .pdf covers all of the interdisciplinary content areas of our museum, including tar pit formation, entrapment, excavations, a guide to our animals and plants, as well as our local Native American History.
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Scavenger Hunts
Find Zed! Scavenger Hunt
Great for Pre-K though 1st grade. Reconstruct Zed, our recently discovered Columbian mammoth. How many parts of Zed can you find around the museum? Color them in!
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Page Museum and Hancock Park Scavenger Hunt
Click here for Color PDF
Click here for Black and White PDF
Click here for Spanish PDF
Suggested Reading Resources
Click here for a list of books for all ages, which are also available in our museum store.
Current Excavations
We excavate seven days a week at the tar pits, because of the extraordinary number of fossils still in the ground.
