Scholastic
Scholastic: Research Starters: Dinosaurs
Good starting point for students needing to do research on dinosaurs. Find quick facts and dates, follow links to articles on fossils, the Mesozoic era, and reptiles, and click links to access some of the best dinosaur resources on the web.
Australian Museum
Australian Museum: Dinosaurs and Their Relatives
Explore extensive information about a variety of Australian dinosaurs, as well as Chinese ones. The evolution of birds from dinosaurs is also described. This online exhibit offers images and facts about dinosaurs, their relatives and...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dinosaurs: Dinosaur Write
Show your knowledge of dinosaurs by writing about them. Pick a genre from poems, newspaper articles, biographies, and many more. Write your own and/or read what others have written.
Crayola
Crayola: Dreams and Dinosaurs (Lesson Plan)
This site is a great way to wrap up a unit on dinosaurs. Children create their own "Window clings," then use them in sorting activities. Also provides resources and adaptations. (To access this lesson plan, you must register with...
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Creatures
This is the opening site for the online exhibit at the Natural History Museum. The exhibit features a wealth of information on dinosaurs including a dinosaur directory, fossil specimens, information, pictures, and more. The exhibit also...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fossilized Dinosaur Bones
This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features a variety of images of fossilized dinosaur bones, which provide evidence for the existence of these fascinating reptiles.
PBS
Idaho Ptv: Science Trek: Dinosaurs
A comprehensive overview of dinosaurs. Includes three videos: a half-hour show, a video short, and a short video where an expert answers children's questions. Other features of the site include facts, links, games and activities, a...
Museums Victoria
Melbourne Museum: Dinosaur Walk
This is an excellent, high-quality resolution, virtual tour of the dinosaur exhibits at the Melbourne Museum in Australia. Provides information about seventeen dinosaurs, a coloring fact sheet for each, and videos of scientists talking...
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: What Killed the Dinosaurs?
Researchers are beginning to find data implicating that an asteroid impact and supervolcanoes might have been the beginning of the end of dinosaurs on Earth.
Seeker
Seeker: Week of 5 19 14: Two New Huge Dinosaurs Discovered
Learn about the discovery of two very large scale dinosaurs.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Dinosaur Train
Dinosaur Train sparks children's interest in life science and natural history. As they explore a variety of animals, children develop the inquiry skills and knowledge needed to help them think, talk and act like paleontologists. Choose...
DOGO Media
Dogo News: 5 26 14: Newly Unearthed Titanosaur May Be the Biggest Dinosaur
What is the largest dinosaur that ever lived on Earth? Scientists may soon be giving a new answer to this question. Includes video.
Scholastic
Scholastic News: Were Dinosaurs Warm or Cold Blooded?
Scientists have never known if dinosaurs should be called warm-blooded or cold-blooded animals. Learn about the surprising new discovery that has shed light on the answer to this question.
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Dinosaur Depot Museum: The Dinosaurs of Marsh and Cope [Pdf]
This booklet was written by Kenneth Carpenter from the Denver Museum of Natural History. It looks at the Jurassic dinosaurs that lived in Garden Park, Colorado. These included carnivorous dinosaurs, thunder lizards, Ornithopods, and...
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Digi Morph: Dinosaurs at Digi morph.org
DigiMorph is a database of high-quality images from living and extinct animals, made available for scientists, educators, researchers and students. This section is devoted to dinosaur fossils, some of them among the most famous in the...
University of California
Ucmp: What Killed the Dinosaurs?
This UC Berkeley site extensively covers the death of the dinosaurs. It includes history, theories, invalid hypotheses, and current arguments.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Mesozoic Era the Age of Dinosaurs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explore the three periods of the Mesozoic Era, the age when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Find out what happened to the dinosaurs.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What Do You Know? Dinosaurs
Test knowledge about dinosaurs with this ten question quiz.
Virginia Tech
Virginia Polytechnic Institute: Greenhouse Dinosaur Extinction Theory
This comprehensive page discusses the Asteroid Impact vs. Volcano-Greenhouse dinosaur extinction debate. It was written by paleontologist, professor, and scientist Dr. Dewey McLean.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: What's in a Dinosaur's Name?
Learners learn how dinosaurs are named for unique body parts or behaviors, for the location where they were found, or after a person and create their own dinosaur using the naming conventions they learn.
PBS
Pbs: Nova: The Four Winged Dinosaur
In 2002, paleontologists discovered a fossil in China that seemed to provide a missing link between dinosaurs and birds, and to support the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs. The fossil came from a four-winged dinosaur they named...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: What Killed the Dinosaurs?
This Evolution Web feature explores how evidence can support a variety of hypotheses surrounding the mystery behind the extinction of the dinosaurs.
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin: Bureau of Economic Geology: Dinosaur Footprints
Information, activities, lesson plans, and frequently asked questions about dinosaur footprints that have been found in Texas.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How a Dinosaur Became a Fossil
This interactive resource adapted from the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley shows how a dinosaur can be buried under sediment after it dies, become a fossil, and then become exposed and discovered by...
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