Creator: UC Berkeley | visit site
Grade Range: 8 - 11
Man may have been flying for only a century, but other vertebrates have been doing it for millions of years! Take a virtual tour of the University of California’s Paleontology Vertebrate Flight Exhibit. If you’re just introducing the mechanics of flight, embarking on a study of natural history and prehistoric life, or looking for a new approach to an old physics lesson, this site can provide a wealth of information. Each topic of the exhibit can be explored independently or the entire site can be treated as a tutorial, with each section flowing logically to the next. The text requires a fairly high level of reading, but is brief. Links providing further explanation of key terms are found throughout the site.
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