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Crayola

Crayola: Dreams and Dinosaurs (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: What's in a Dinosaur's Name?

For Teachers K - 1st
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.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Discovering Dinosaurs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A activity where students investigate how paleontologists interpret evidence from dinosaur finds in order to develop hypotheses and theories about how they lived. Includes downloadable worksheets.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Dinosaur Detectives

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
For this lesson, young scholars conduct research on what paleontologists do when they study dinosaur fossils. They learn about some of the major paleontologists, what they discovered, and how opinions about fossils change over time as...
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San Diego Natural History Museum

San Diego Natural History Museum: Feathered Dinosaurs: Dinosaur Root Words [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Go to page 7 of this teacher's guide to find dinosaur root words. These can be used to make flashcards. Many of these roots are found in English words. Choose some of these root words and identify at least one corresponding English word.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Lets Net: Dinosaurs and Us Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
The focus of this lesson unit is on adaptation - how dinosaurs adapted to their habitat in order to survive. Students will explore online dinosaur exhibits and record information they find. This leads to a discussion of adaptation and...
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University of California

Ucmp: Dino Facts a Unit on Dinosaur Behavior

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this unit, students look at what is known about three dinosaurs - Maiasaura, Troodon and Orodromeus - and learn how paleontologists develop hypotheses about their behavior.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Geo Logic: The Three Stooges and Their Pet Dinosaurs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With GEOLogic puzzles, students are asked to match each of the Three Stooges with their favorite group and species of dinosaur based on clues given from different perspectives.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Trb 4:4 Investigation 6 Dinosaur Extinction

For Teachers 4th
Research and analyze theories on why dinosaurs became extinct.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Trb 4:4 Investigation 4 Dinosaurs Tracks

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders will make inferences and interpretations from sets of dinosaur tracks.
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Read Works

Read Works: Read Aloud Lesson: Digging Up Dinosaurs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will read "Digging Up Dinosaurs" using the close reading technique. Students will use graphic organizers to summarize the steps necessary to collect, study, and build a dinosaur skeleton.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Measurement: Comparing Dinosaurs

For Teachers 1st Standards
First Graders need to use direct and indirect comparisons to measure objects. Today they will use their new knowledge of dinosaurs to find the longest of the giant lizards.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Geo Logic: Dinosaur Trackways

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using GEOLogic questions and puzzles, students associate different dinosaur trackways with their locations and the rock formations containing the trackways based on clues given from various points of view.
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Orca Book Publishers

Orca Book Publishers: Dinosaurs on the Beach Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Dinosaurs on the Beach, a novel written by Marilyn Helmer, looks at a child's search for fossils on a beach in Nova Scotia. This teacher's guide includes a book summary, teaching ideas and the author's reflections on writing the book.
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Success Link

Success Link: Dinosaur Corners

For Teachers Pre-K - K
A short lesson plan for early elementary students to help them recognize four major dinosaurs. Use the provided drawings of the dinosaurs to make posters for students to identify.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: What Did You Find?

For Teachers 4th
Use a k-w-l chart to learn about dinosaurs or fossils.
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SEDL

Sedl: Extinction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This second lesson in a course on dinosaurs is devoted to extinction. There are group activities, discussion of the idea, and a way to assess what the students have learned.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: How Big Is a Dinosaur?

For Teachers 4th
Create an enlarged replica of a stegosaurus drawing.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Dig It!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Children will enjoy learning about dinosaurs through the use of technology, research, hands-on activities, discussions, and written and oral presentations. This unit will help students to collaborate as a group and manage their own time.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Geo Logic: Museums and Their Dinosaur Displays

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using GEOLogic questions, students match five top museums with two fossils that they have on display based on clues presented from various points of view.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: N q.a.3: Dinosaur Bones

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The purpose of this task is to illustrate through an absurd example the fact that in real life quantities are reported to a certain level of accuracy, and it does not make sense to treat them as having greater accuracy. Aligns with N-Q.A.3.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Dinosaur Fossils

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will enhance their understanding of fossils. Students explore fossils by creating their own fossil imprints using Play-Doh and Plaster of Paris.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Fossil Footsteps

For Teachers 4th
Create dinosaur tracks using clay then write a story.
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: What Can Fossil Footprints Tell Us?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
In this investigation, students examine an image of multiple fossil footprint tracks. They try to construct an explanation for the events that created the pattern of tracks. Even though students come up with different explanations for...

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