Skyping with a Paleontologist

Posted: January 18, 2013

When we began our "Skyping with the Experts" program, the first expert the students wanted me to find was a Paleontologist. We were so lucky when Dr. Melissa Grey from the Joggins Fossil Center in Nova Scotia agreed to Skype with us. Over the past few weeks we read a lot about dinosaurs and developed a list of questions to ask her. The children were especially excited to learn that dinosaurs once roamed Atlantic Canada millions of years ago! She told us about her job, the type of schooling she had to do in order to become a paleontologist, and what her daily life looks like. She answered our questions and even showed us some fossils! It was an AWESOME day we and learned so much!! Thanks to Dr. Grey for being our first expert skype!