STEAM Education
Mammoth Site Education
The Mammoth Site has been taking strides to become a world-renown education and research institution and offers a wide variety of projects and programs.
The Mammoth Site is the perfect place for field trips and offers a variety of classes such as:
PreK-K: Mammoths, Mammoths, Mammoths
Activities include a mammoth puzzle, a trunk touch activity, and the opportunity to explore Andrea’s Kids Cave, which offers self-driven sensory-based educational activities. Andrea’s Kids Cave includes a sandbox, which acts as a miniature dig location where kids can use paintbrushes to uncover fossil replicas from mammoths and other Ice Age wonders.
1st Grade: Fossils
Activities include a fossil class where students learn about paleontology while learning about fossil molds and casts. Students get to make their own miniature replicas that they can take home.
2nd Grade: Animal Tracks
Activities include a class on trace fossils and learning about tracks and other things animals can leave behind. Students learn to identify where tracks are most likely to be found and why. Students will create their own track identifying sheet using animal track stamps.
3rd Grade: Erosion
This activity explores the formation of sinkholes and the erosion process. Day one requires a pre-activity at school. Students make miniature sinkholes and bury small replica bones. Day two takes place at The Mammoth Site where students get to dig for the replicas they buried. Students learn the process of sinkhole formation and topographic reversal.
4th Grade: Entrapment
Students learn all about how The Mammoth Site sinkhole formed. The activity involves students making a miniature sinkhole-in-a-glass where they see a sinkhole forming right before their eyes!
5th Grade: Archaeology
Activities demonstrate several different concepts that are all related to studying Paleo-Indians of 10,000 years ago and their interaction with the Pleistocene environment. Science concepts include archaeological inferences, topographic maps, absolute dating, extinction and adaption scenarios, and Paleo-technology.
6th-12th: Odontology- Let’s Study Teeth!
Students learn about the function of different types of teeth and how paleontologists use teeth to identify different species of animals. Students mix plaster and pour into molds of different mammoth teeth.
Curriculum Classes are $2.30 per person with (No Tax) or $2.51 per person with (Tax). The Odontology Class is $4.50 per person with (No Tax) or $4.91 per person with (Tax).
Please call 605-745-6017 to schedule your group visit today!
Can’t bring your students to The Mammoth Site? Why not bring The Mammoth Site to them!
Mammoth-In-A-Trunk Kits
Traveling educational kits for grades K-12 are available for loan from the activity list on the previous page. Most supplies are included for a class of 25 students, along with posters, a teacher’s edition, and related resources material. A refundable deposit and return shipping are required.
The best part of all this is that the kit is free – the kits are part of our education program. All you have to do is provide a check for the value of the kit ($500), or a credit card number to put on file and we’ll send one right out. Once the kit comes back (you pay postage), we tear up the check or shred the credit card number.
Please call 605-745-6017 for more information, to order a kit, or to reserve a kit for a future date.