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What is a Kids' Dig! like?
A common question is "what do they get to do?"
Well, we meet at the Wyoming
Dinosaur Center at 8:30 and the parents drop off their kids,
and sign waivers. The kids pick up their free waterbottles (fill
them up) and head to the field. All of the participants are split
into two groups, while one group is digging in a dinosaur quarry,
the other is prospecting for fossils in the Sundance Formation,
an ancient seaway with belemnites, amonites, and camptonectes shells.
Mid-morning the groups switch out. The groups then meet at noon
in the Hot Springs State Park and have lunch and some free time
to play on the playground.
After lunch the groups are split again with one
going to the prep-lab and molding/casting lab, and the other going
on an educational scavenger hunt through the museum. Again at mid-afternoon
the groups switch. At the end of the afternoon we all gather and
have a question and answer periord, and free time to visit the displays
on their own. Parents then pick up their kids around 4:15-4:30 in
the afternoon.

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