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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What Do You Know? Dinosaurs

For Students 3rd - 6th
Test knowledge about dinosaurs with this ten question quiz.
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PBS

Idaho Ptv: Science Trek: Dinosaurs

For Students 2nd - 6th
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...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Paleontology: The Big Dig

For Students 3rd - 7th
A collection of online games, virtual puzzles, experiments, and interviews with experts to immerse students into the world of paleontology.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Dinosaurs: Bambiraptor and Birds

For Students 9th - 10th
A 14-year-old boy found the fossils of a brand new species of dinosaur--the Bambiraptor. Find out the fun facts about what scientists have discovered about the Bambiraptor and how closely it was related to birds with this resource.
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University of California

Ucmp: What Killed the Dinosaurs?

For Students 9th - 10th
This UC Berkeley site extensively covers the death of the dinosaurs. It includes history, theories, invalid hypotheses, and current arguments.
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Virginia Tech

Virginia Polytechnic Institute: Greenhouse Dinosaur Extinction Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive page discusses the Asteroid Impact vs. Volcano-Greenhouse dinosaur extinction debate. It was written by paleontologist, professor, and scientist Dr. Dewey McLean.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How a Dinosaur Became a Fossil

For Students 3rd - 8th
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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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Ology Quiz: What Do You Know? Paleontology

For Students 3rd - 8th
Test your knowledge of paleontology by taking a quick quiz.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Paleontology: The Big Dig

For Students 3rd - 8th
On this site, you will learn all about Paleontology, the study of ancient life. It defines paleontology and provides links to games, stories, videos, and hands-on activities.
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The Dinosaur Museum

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Dinosaur Museum is located in Blanding, Utah. Use this site to learn all about the exhibits and dinosaur information.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What's the Big Idea? Paleontology

For Students 3rd - 8th
Snapshot reference on paleontology explains how the fossil record drives this area of science.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Dinosaurs!

For Students 3rd - 8th
Scholastic provides a learning site about dinosaurs that features information and facts, games, activities, and much more. There is also a teacher's guide that provides numerous ideas for dinosaur lesson plans.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Building a Dinosaur From a Chicken

For Students 9th - 10th
Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Dinosaur Detectives

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
For this instructional activity, students 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...
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Tracking Dinosaurs

For Students 9th - 10th
Two activities that will help students learn how paleontologists are able to determine, based on fossil evidence, whether a particular dinosaur was walking or running when it left footprints behind.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Digging Up Dirt: How Paleontologists Bring Dinosaurs Back to Life

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Teachers can download this teaching package that introduces students to the science of paleontology. Fossil formulation and details about the work of paleontologists are discussed. Find out how paleontologists discover, stabilize, and...
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University of Bristol: What Were the Dinosaurs, and How Did They Live?

For Students 9th - 10th
Answers to a series of nine questions related to dinosaurs. There are a number of links to other informative sites as well.
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Tramline: Dinosaurs: A Prehistoric Adventure for Grades 2 5

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Travel across the Internet to learn about dinosaurs in this virtual field trip. The trip is designed for Grades Two to Five. Topics include dinosaur fossils, extinction, paleontology, anatomy, behavior, etc.
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University of California

Ucmp: Are Birds Really Dinosaurs?

For Students 9th - 10th
A great essay that illustrates how science is done as well as the relationship between dinosaurs and modern birds. Includes a picture to illustrate this concept, and contains many links to related sites.
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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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Canal Kids: Dinossauros (Dinosaurs), a Era Dos Gigantes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A good introduction to dinosaurs for young Portuguese-speaking children. Uses an engaging writing style, cartoon-style graphics, and animation to teach about the Mesozoic era. Coverage includes types of dinosaurs and their features,...
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University of California

Ucmp: Name a Dinosaur Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This article shows how scientists put together the scientific names of dinosaurs using Greek and Latin roots.
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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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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Ferocious Predatory Dinosaurs of Cretaceous Sahara

For Students 9th - 10th
Nizar Ibrahim uses paleontological and geological data to reconstruct the 'River of Giants' in north Africa in surprising detail.