Curated OER
Dinosaurs: Creatures of the Past
Learners search for information and pictures of dinosaurs to distinguish between meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs. They explore theories about their extinction, and create illustrations of dinosaurs using Kid Pix or other drawing...
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Investigation 4 - Dinosaurs Tracks
Fourth graders make inferences and interpretations from sets of dinosaur tracks. They describe Utah fossils and how they were formed. Partners trade their sketches of tracks and try to guess which dinosaur it belonged to.
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Fossil Footsteps
Fourth graders create their own dinosaur tracks using clay. In addition, 4th graders compose a story about the dinosaur / animal who created the tracks. They study photographs of dinosaur tracks before beginning.
Curated OER
Dinosaur Database
Students learn to use a database to share information about a dinosaur they have researched.
Curated OER
Dinosaurs - Creatures Of The Past
Students use the Internet to search for dinosaurs, then distinguish between meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs. They explore theories about the extinction of dinosaurs and create illustrations of dinosaurs using Kid Pix or other...
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Using Hyperstudio To Introduce Dinosuars
Students access this multimedia program as an introduction to dinosaurs. The program will provide information regarding the classification of several dinosaurs. They view the multimedia program to develop background information for their...
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Creating Dinosaurs from Tracks
Students learn how scientists compare dinosaur tracks to those of modern animals, how scientists create a full model of a dinosaur from its tracks and how the age of dinosaur tracks is determined.
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Eagles and Other Raptors
Students become familiar with basic facts and behavior of the American Bald Eagle using a combination of classroom presentation, Video, Internet searching, "hands on" computer activity, and touching of feathers and displays.
Curated OER
Theme: Dinosaurs
Pupils identify at least ten different dinosaurs and name them. Students explain the difference between plant-eating dinosaurs and meat-eating dinosaurs. Pupils explain how scientists know about dinosaurs.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Mammals Get Their Chance
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, animations of an asteroid hitting Earth are used to illustrate this widely accepted theory of dinosaur extinction and the resulting conditions that favored mammals.
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.
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.
University of California
Ucmp: Introduction to the Cenozoic
A good brief review of The Cenozoic Era, which also includes links to more detailed information as well as a chart of its subdivisions.
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.
University of California
Ucmp: The Dinosauria
The Dinosauria provides the latest information about dinosaurs, including debunking myths, early dinosaur discoveries, characteristics of specific dinosaurs, life history, and discovery of dinosaur fossils.
University of California
Ucmp: Evolution: Theory and Science
An introduction to Darwin's theory of evolution with hyperlinks to other topics on evolution, including a timeline of evolutionary thought.
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: King of Gore
Article reports on the recent discovery of Lythronax argestes, an ancestor to the Tyrannosaurus rex. Includes a list of vocabulary words.
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.
SEDL
Dinosaurs
Complete science unit on Dinosaurs in English accompanied by its Spanish version. These resources will help increase the academic achievement of Hispanic children in the classroom.
Other
Hartao: An Introduction to Plate Tectonics
Introduces South African Alexander Toit as naming Gondwanaland and Laurasia.
Other
University of Bristol: The Kt Event
This dinosaur site, containing eight different sections, includes topics such as: 101 crazy theories about dinosaur extinction, the pattern and timing of extinction, evidence for late cretaceous climatic change, gradual extinction and...
Other
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...
Other
Dinosaurios: Dinosaurs
In-depth presentation about the world of dinosaurs. Includes pictures and diagrams. Information about types, characteristics, and extinction.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Who Should Own the Bones?
In this dinosaur WebQuest for Grades 6-8, two college students find fossils in a park and try to sell them, discovering it is against the law. Students will examine the positions of people on opposite sides of the argument over the...