Lab Ideas Wanted

[plotnick@xxxxxxx (Roy Plotnick)]

My department is finally doing a major revision/updating its 100-level
geology labs.  This includes three lab exercise on fossils.  I am moderately
happy with two of them, but the third (which is basically biostratigraphy)
is, quite frankly, dull. I am looking for suggestions or examples of
successful paleontology labs.  I would greatly prefer labs that are hands-on
(not paper-and-pencil exercises).  The intended audience will be greatly
dominated but non-geology, non-science majors. Thanks -Roy
Roy E. Plotnick
Geological Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
845 W. Taylor St.
Chicago, IL 60607
plotnick@uic.edu
phone: 312-996-2111     fax: 312-413-2279


"The scientific celebrities, forgetting their molluscs and glacial
 periods, gossiped about art, while devoting themselves to oysters
 and ices with characteristic energy.." -Little Women, Louisa 
 May Alcott