DinoTracks
Through November 2, 2008
Track down prehistoric creatures in the new DinoTracks exhibit, the fourth created by the EcoTarium and its partners as part of the Environmental Exhibit Collaborative.
DinoTracks engages adults and kids alike in a fun-filled exploration of the fossils found right under our feet in New England, how these footprints came to be, what they tell us and how scientists began to study them. Try out hands-on scientific study methods and get down on the ground to put your new skills to work.
Presented in English, Spanish and French, DinoTracks exhibit stations include a variety of fun activities for families, including:
- Practice tracking skills on a 15x20 foot photo reproduction of real trackways discovered in the Connecticut River Valley
- Step into life-sized dinosaur prints and touch a real footprint found last year in a Holyoke, Massachusetts, backyard
- Learn the real-life stories of dinosaur discoveries and where you can go to see them in New England and Eastern Canada
- Mimic the process of mud tracking and make footprints to take home
- Discover how to read the stories in fossil tracks to measure a dinosaur's speed, size and activity
- Hear and feel the footsteps of a dinosaur when you sit on the Jurassic Park Bench
- Find out how scientists today are using emus, turkeys and lizards to discover how dinosaurs really moved
DinoTracks is produced by the Environmental Exhibit Collaborative (EcoTarium, Worcester, Massachusetts; ECHO at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, Burlington, Vermont; Exhibition Production Center, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada; and the Children’s Museum of Maine, Portland, Maine) and made possible by grants from Jane's Trust and Cabot Family Charitable Trust.