go_go_gadget Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 I'm putting together a prehistory unit and have lots for the early hominids and forward, but nothing lined up for the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and early Cenozoic Eras. Any favorites? Books, MOOCs, and all other suggestions welcome. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwilk Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Coursera recently had a MOOC The Emergence of life https://class.coursera.org/emergenceoflife-002. The class has now ended, but all the material is still available online. You can still watch all the videos, read all the material and so on. Weeks 4-7 cover the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic Eras. We are also doing a prehistory year this year, but I imagine we are doing so at a much more basic level than you are. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornblower Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 For Mesozoic, I can recommend Dinosaurs by Fastovsky. It was one of the texts in dd's college paleontology class & I wouldn't let her sell it on textbook buyback day because it's too good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherry in OH Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Coursera also has Dino 101 - https://www.coursera.org/course/dino101 We used Voyages through Time: The Beginning and Usborne Prehistoric World as our prehistory spines and supplemented with many other resources. Hannah Bonner's series was a favorite: When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Long Before Dinosaurs; When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange, and Tetrapods Stalked the Earth: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life before Dinosaurs ; and When Dinos Dawned, Mammals Got Munched, and Pterosaurs Took Flight: A Cartoon Pre-History of Life in the Triassic. My sons also liked Jacqui Bailey's four volume, Cartoon History of the Earth: The Birth of the Earth; Dawn of Life; Day of the Dinosaurs; and Stick and Stone Age. My oldest also liked Dinosaur Ghosts: The Mystery of the Coelophysis (J. Lynett Gillette). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 My signature has a link to the Prehistory I put together for DD, though she's younger than I'm guessing your kids to be from your signature. Many of the resources we used were aimed at much older children, though, so some of it might still work. We also did the Dino 101 course on Coursera and all of us had a lot of fun with it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
go_go_gadget Posted May 22, 2015 Author Share Posted May 22, 2015 Thanks so much, everyone. I've signed up for the Coursera courses, and put in some holds at the library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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