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TRUNK: Rock Box I

Books
Understanding and Collecting Rocks and Fossils

Fossil Box 1: Animals of Ancient Oceans (37 items)
Trilobite slab
Horn Coral
Colony Coral
Crinoid (5)
Brachiopod (4)
Grastropod
Bryozoa (3)
Cephalopod (4)
Activity Direction sheet
Name the Animal card (2)
Descriptions of the fossils (7)
Photos of Ancient Oceans (6)
Magic marker

Fossil Box 2: How Fossils are Formed (10 items)
Shark's tooth
Dinosaur's bone
Fish slab
Lepidodendron
Horn coral
Pecopteris
Pelecypod
Stigmaria
Whale bone
Petrified wood

Fossil Box 3: Rocks People Used (9 items)
Mano and Metate
Hammer
Bag of corn
Flint Core and Flake
Spear head
Hammer and Arrow head

Geode Box (15 items)
Half of a large geode
Geodes from Keokuk (3.5)
Geode video
Unbroken geodes from Keokuk (2)
Geodes in parts (8)

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