Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Discovering Dinosaurs
A lesson where students investigate how paleontologists interpret evidence from dinosaur finds in order to develop hypotheses and theories about how they lived. Includes downloadable worksheets.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Dinosaur Detectives
For this lesson plan, 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 time as new...
Other
Dino Dictionary: Profiles of Over 300 Known Dinosaurs!
This site is a must for learning about dinosaurs. It profiles over 300 known species. It also lets you hear how to pronounce the name.
Starfall
Starfall: Dinosaurs!
This is the interactive ebook "Dinosaurs!" Children can read along, listen to, or read the story independently.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Animals Past and Present
In English and Spanish this site deals with animal life in Illinois past and present. With sections on dinosaurs, animals in Illinois 65 million years ago, animals in Illinois 10 million years ago, and animals in Illinois today, this is...
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Dinosaur Depot Museum: Dinosaur Coloring Book [Pdf]
A variety of Colorado dinosaurs are profiled in this dinosaur coloring book. The drawings were created by fifth and sixth graders at Skyline Elementary School, located near a major dinosaur site at Garden Park, Colorado. Each picture is...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Allosaurus Images
A picture of a model of an allosaurus. Also links to other images of and information about the allosaurus.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Dig It!
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Are Any Dinosaurs Still Alive Today?
An article reviewing over how dinosaurs are still alive today in their descents.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Answers to Exploration Questions: Dinosaur Extinction
Explore the dinosaur extinction with the answers to this exploration questions on this site.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Dinosaur Train Buddy's Amazing Adventure
Help Buddy get King to the convention as you learn about different dinosaurs along the way!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Hands on Activity
This is a hands on activity asks students to design and build a certain number dinosaur parts in order to create a crowd of a given size. Apply combinatorics to design your own crowd of dinosaurs. Click on First Lesson before you begin...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Answers to Exploration Questions: What Is a Dinosaur?
Do you know what a dinosaur is? This site has answers to the exploration questions about dinosaurs and a common ancestors.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Answers to Exploration Questions: Dinosaur Fossils
Find the answers to the dinosaur exploration questions on this site.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Investigating Animals Packet: Pre K and K: Summer of Possibilities
Use these animal-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures while investigating animals.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Can We Clone Dinosaurs From Dna?
A page dedicated to answering the of can we use DNA to clone the dinosaurs.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Swimming Dinosaurs
From ABC News in Science, Will Dunham's article, "Swimming dinosaurs touched bottom of lake," explores fossilized foot marks found on a lake bottom which suggest strong swimming ability on the part of the dinosaurs.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Dinosaur 'Feathers' Are No Such Thing
From ABC News in Science, this article explores the validity behind current findings and research on the dinosaur to bird theory. The research is conducted on the Sinosauropteryx, which is a turkey-sized dinosaur with "proto-feathers."
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Found! Australia's Largest Dinosaurs
From ABC News in Science, Rob Taylor's article discusses the discovery of dinosaur bones in Australia which lead scientists to conclude the existence of the largest dinosaurs to have roamed Australia.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Piece of Dinosaur Extinction Asteroid Puzzle Recovered
The first meteorite fossil discovered in this period when tests can be run on it, was found at Chicxulub in Northeastern Yucatan, Mexico. Scientists believe it is part of the meteorite which made the dinosaurs extinct.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Dinosaurs and Cave People
Site uncovers the truth behind some common dinosaur myths.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dinosaurs: Build a Dinosaur
Build your own dinosaur by choosing different styles of body parts from actual dinosaurs.
University of California
Ucmp: Welcome to the Dinobuzz
Site details with the current topics concerning dinosaurs. Site covers dinosaur speeds, dinosaur extinction, warm-blooded dinosaurs and more.
Kidport
Kidport: Reference Library: Dinosaurs
A nicely illustrated and informative site on dinosaurs from the Cambrian period until the Quaternary period.