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Dinosaurs 2: What Were Dinosaurs Like?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students compare and contrast dinosaurs to animals that are alive today through basic research.
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Digging Up Facts About Dinosaurs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders conduct research on a given dinosaur using various resources, complete an information sheet that be used to create their graphic organizer from, and produce a graphic organizer, using the Kidspiration software.
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Dinosaurs - Online Research

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders familiarize themselves with dinosaurs through online research.
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Dinosaurs

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use educational software about different dinosaurs to determine what group of dinosaurs each belongs in.
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Dinosaur Groups

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine different dinosaurs and what groups they belong in. Educational software is used to guide the lesson.
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NTeQ Science Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students produce a report on the types of dinosaurs found in our state of Texas using a word processing software.
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Estimation

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders gain an understanding of estimation as an educated guess. They explore measuring and how looking at various object size and shape can help form ones guess towards estimation. They use dinosaurs for an estimation activity.
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Dinosaur Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students review dodging, chasing and fleeing skills while reinforcing concepts about dinosaurs. They need to review the following concepts about how dinosaurs eat and move: Herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat meat, and omnivores eat both.
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Dinosaur reports-4 blocks guided reading & focused writing (Elementary, 4 Blocks)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read books about dinosaurs for book club groups and then participate in focused writing. In this reading and writing lesson, students work together over the course of three days to produce a group story about a dinosaur.
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Learn About Dinosaurs

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students read facts about dinosaurs and then participate in a variety of dinosaur activities. In this dinosaur lesson plan, students paint dinosaur eggs, play dinosaur bingo, and more.
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Death of the Dinosaur

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students consider theories of dinosaur extinction. In this reading comprehension lesson, students read an article about dinosaur extinction theories. Students may also complete the suggested activities. The article is not included.
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Where Are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore what the dinosaurs were like. For this dinosaur lesson, the teacher peaks student curiosity about dinosaurs. This lesson would be a great starting point for a dinosaur unit since it primarily engages student interest and...
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Dinosaurs-Eoraptor

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore the Eoraptor. In this dinosaurs lesson, students read facts about the habitat and eating habits of the Eoraptor and illustrate a picture of the dinosaur.
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The Reptiles

For Students 5th - 8th
In this reptiles instructional activity, students match 9 terms from a word list to the statement that it completes. Then students write 1 short paragraph about how they feel about reptiles.
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Dinosaur Cut and Paste

For Students 1st
In this dinosaur instructional activity, 1st graders color each dinosaur half. Students then cut out the back half of each dinosaur and paste it onto the matching front half for the dinosaurs. Students create four dinosaurs.
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Books for Teaching Dinosaurs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students investigate dinosaurs through books. For this lesson about dinosaurs, students read a variety of books about dinosaurs. Students become familiar with dinosaurs through reading about them. Students learn that reading is...
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Big and Little Dinosaurs

For Students K - 2nd
In this size comparison worksheet, learners cut out the six different dinosaurs and then paste the dinosaurs into the small or big section to show size.
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Dinosaur Alliterations

For Students 4th - 5th
In this alliteration worksheet, students review the definition and an example for alliterations. Students then write their own alliterations about dinosaurs and illustrate one of their examples in the box.
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Dinosaur KWL

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this dinosaur worksheet, students complete a KWL chart for dinosaurs. Students must fill in the table for what they know, what they want to know, and what they have learned about dinosaurs.
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Favorite Dinosaur

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this dinosaur graphing worksheet, students use this form to gather information on people's favorite dinosaurs. Students use tally marks to record the responses.
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Fossils and Natural Selection

For Students 6th - 8th
In this fossils and natural selection worksheet, students will read a cause related to fossils and natural selection. Students will write in the effect of each of these causes. This worksheet has two questions.
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Picture Scramble: Dinosaurs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
For this picture scramble worksheet, young scholars place scrambled pieces of a dinosaur picture in the correct place to create a full picture of the dinosaur. There are nine scrambled pieces for each of the three dinosaur puzzles.
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Picture Scramble

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this picture scramble worksheet, students place scrambled pieces of a picture in the correct place to create a full picture of a woolly mammoth and two dinosaurs. There are nine scrambled pieces for each of the three puzzles.
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Carnivore or Herbivore: Dinosaurs

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this science worksheet, students examine 12 boxes, each with a different dinosaur, a species label and the letters C and H. Students circle the correct letter to note what each dinosaur eats- C for carnivore and H for herbivore.