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NBC

Live Science: Scientists Find Tracks of Swimming Dinosaur

For Students 9th - 10th
Dinosaurs could swim? Scientist believe that one in particular could. Learn what they discovered and how this impacts our knowledge of these creatures. Many interactive features are also available on this site.
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Other

Dltk's Crafts for Kids: Dinosaur Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A collection of cute dinosaur arts and crafts activities for mainly younger children.
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Other

Montana Tourism Advisory Council: The Montana Dinosaur Trail

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Montana Dinosaur Trail is a map pinpointing places in Montana where dinosaur fossils have been discovered, and the museums with exhibits and information about them. Some of the museums have online exhibits and facts about specific...
Activity
Other

Danielle's Place: Dinosaur Crafts and Learning Activities for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
These are some fun dinosaur crafts to do with younger children and dinosaur games for a teacher to make. A few crafts are only available to paying members. This is a Christian site, and the author takes the biblical view that dinosaurs...
Handout
University of California

Ucmp: Early Dinosaur Discoveries in North America

For Students 9th - 10th
This survey of early dinosaur discoveries in North America discusses the first dinosaur specimens and the scientific debate that they inspired.
Article
BBC

Bbc Newsround: Week of 1 13 14: Dinosaur Bones Found in Saudi Arabia

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Article reports on dinosaur bones which have been discovered for the first time in Saudi Arabia.
eBook
LM Digital Media

Kids World Fun: Tyrone the Big Bad Bully [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This ebook shares the story of a small dinosaur named Boland who gets picked on by the bully named Tyrone the T-Rex. Students can read to see if a character change in Tyrone ever occurs.
eBook
LM Digital Media

Kids World Fun: Tyronne the Horrible [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This e-book includes the story of a small dinosaur that keeps getting bullied by a T-Rex named Tyrone.
eBook
LM Digital Media

Kids World Fun: Tyrone the Cheater [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This ebook shares the story of a small dinosaur named Boland who keeps being the victim of a bully named Tyrone the T-Rex. In this story, Tyrone keeps cheating in games. Can Boland and his friends devise a plan to stop the cheating?...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Dinosaurs for Kids

For Students 1st - 8th
Dinosaurs: Kids learn about these ancient animals that wondered the Earth thousands of years ago. We know about them from studying fossils.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Facts About the Jurassic Period

For Students 9th - 10th
The Jurassic Period falls within the Mesozoic Era. Read about geologic events that occurred then, the climate, and the plants and animals, including the many types of dinosaurs.
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Other

Pocantico Hills School: Meet the Dinosaurs

For Students 3rd - 5th
What do other kids know and love about dinosaurs? Here's an exciting place to compare what you know about the "terrible lizards", and to learn more from this school site.
Lesson Plan
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.
Interactive
Other

Clever Island: Dinosaurs

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This primary age website requires no reading to construct the jigsaw dinosaur puzzle out of six pieces. The instructions are all spoken by the cartoon characters. Children can then watch a cartoon where one character goes back in time...
Article
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Dinosaur Facts and Information

For Students 2nd - 8th
Read a brief history of dinosaurs and how fossils are formed. Learn about the three main dinosaur periods, plant-eating dinosaurs, meat-eating dinosaurs, the end of dinosaurs, and other interesting facts.
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Other

Dinosaurs' End, the Gravitational Hypothesis

For Students 9th - 10th
The author of this site feels that there are too many problems with the current theories for why dinosaurs became extinct. He believes that his gravitational hypothesis is the correct answer, the dinosaurs suddenly got too heavy.
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Other

Scientists Say Star Collision Caused Dinosaur Extinction

For Students 9th - 10th
"Israeli scientists have a new theory on why the dinosaurs became extinct: cosmic radiation that bombarded the Earth following the collision of two neutron stars." This article discusses the details of the theory.
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Curated OER

Sedl: Extinction

For Students 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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Curated OER

Stegasaurus From the Bbc Series Walking With Dinosaurs

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource identifies and describes a comprehensive list of prehistoric dinosaurs. In each description students will find a picture, facts, a chart of information and more.
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Curated OER

Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource identifies and describes a comprehensive list of prehistoric dinosaurs. In each description students will find a picture, facts, a chart of information and more.
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Ankylosaurus Skeleton

For Students 9th - 10th
This picture shows the restoration of an Ankylosaurus skeleton from side on. Ankylosaurus was a bulky dinosaur that lived at the end of the Cretaceous Period (around 66 million years ago). For more information on this interesting...
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Ankylosaurus Skull

For Students 9th - 10th
This picture gives a close up view of an Ankylosaurus skull. Ankylosaurus was a strongly armored ornithischian dinosaur that lived in North America. This specific specimen was found in the Edmonton formation of Alberta, Canada. For more...
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Argentinosaurus Skeleton

For Students 9th - 10th
This picture shows a reconstruction of an Argentinosaurus skeleton in a special exhibition of the Naturmuseum Senckenberg (a natural history museum in Frankfurt, Germany). Argentinosaurus was a massive Sauropod dinosaur from the mid...
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Brachiosaurus Skeleton

For Students 9th - 10th
This picture shows a reconstruction of a Brachiosaurus skeleton. Brachiosaurus was part of a family of huge dinosaurs known as Sauropods, it reached around 26 metres (85 feet) in length and lived in North America. For more information on...