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Fossils and Dinosaurs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore fossils and dinosaurs. In this science instructional activity, students discuss how fossils are created. Students draw muscles and skin on a stegosaurus.
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Discovering Dinosaurs

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students discuss that scientists have theories about what dinosaurs were like but are unsure because they are no longer living. In this dinosaur research lesson, students examine how scientists use evidence to determine the behavior and...
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My Dinosaur Drawing Page

For Students 1st
For this drawing page, 1st graders imagine that they just discovered a new dinosaur in their own backyard. They draw a picture of the discovery in the background on the coloring page. They write a name for the new dinosaur on elementary...
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Classifying Dinosaurs

For Students 4th - 8th
In this classifying dinosaurs worksheet, students follow directions to make a classification chart for each kind of dinosaur. Students follow 16 sets of directions.
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Dinosaurs - Creatures Of The Past

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students use the internet to search for information and pictures of dinosaurs. They distinguish between meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs and explore theories about the extinction of dinosaurs.
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Dinosaur Days

For Teachers K
Students investigate the age of dinosaurs while examining the characteristics of three kinds of dinosaurs. They examine plant eaters, meat eaters, and flying dinosaurs while determining how to classify things. They rotate through centers...
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Dinosaur Shadow Match

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this dinosaur worksheet, students draw a line from each of the 5 dinosaur pictures on the left to the matching shadow on the right. The answers are on the second page.
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Digging Up Dinosaurs

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this dinosaurs worksheet, students read a nonfiction book about dinosaurs and then answer 6 comprehension questions and present an oral presentation.
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What Can You Learn About Dinosaurs by Watching an Ostrich?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students often find dinosaurs interesting. However, it is doubtful that they have actually thought about the process by which scientists (and film animators) develop working models of dinosaurs. Reproducible worksheets provide...
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Poka Dotted Dinosaurs

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this dinosaurs worksheet, students use crayons to color the dinosaurs in a camouflaged fashion to blend in with their habitat. Students follow 5 directions and answer 2 questions.
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Dinosaur Daze

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students review, create, and inquire about dinosaurs, the fossilization process, and paleontology by successfully completing each of six classroom stations.
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Dinosaurs 1: Where Are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore dinosaurs. In this dinosaur identification lesson, students watch video clips for different dinosaurs from the Discovery Kids website. Students discuss the clips with their teacher. Students may then role play the...
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Dinosaur Matching

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this dinosaur matching worksheet, students look at 5 pictures of dinosaurs and read 5 names, then draw a line to match the picture to the name.
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Draw T. rex

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore how scientists determine what prehistoric animals looked like based on their bones. They draw a picture of the skull of a Tyrannosaurus Rex by copying an image from an overhead or book.
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Eoraptor Dinosaurs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students gain knowledge about dinosaurs. In this Eoraptor dinosaur lesson plan, students read books about Eoraptors and draw pictures of Eoraptors. Students show what they have learned by writing a paragraph about what they have learned.
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Dress up a T. Rex

For Students 6th - 12th
Scholars play with an image's color and brightness to predict how tyrannosaurus rex's skin, feathers, and eyes would have appeared. Information and real-world pictures shed light on what evidence guides our assumption of how a...
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Clues and Choose Beginnings

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this art learning exercise, students look at the dinosaur pictures and draw on them according to the directions. Students follow 4 sets of directions.
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Fill a Jar

For Teachers K - 6th
Sometimes short lesson outlines are enough to give you a great idea. Young writers draw any object inside an image of a jar, that doesn't belong in a jar. They can draw a tree, truck, or dinosaur. Tip: Have kids write a short story...
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Trace, Draw and Color: Diamonds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this tracing worksheet, students trace a set of diamonds, and draw some of their own. Students then color the diamonds in a set of 5 given shapes.
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Designasaurus: An Activity in Paleontology

For Students 8th - 10th
In this dinosaur worksheet, students are given a dinosaur skeleton and they work in teams to report about a "newly discovered dinosaur". They create and include it's name, a model of it, its size, the habitat it lived in, its diet, its...
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Name Match

For Teachers 7th - 8th
For this name match worksheet, students match up fourteen dinosaurs with the meaning of each of their names by drawing a line to connect one with the other.
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Dinosaur Detectives

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students examine amphibian evolution by comparing fossils with a modern-day skeleton. They experience the scientific thought process of drawing conclusions from limited paleontological data. Student groups align the figures with the...
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Beyond T. Rex

For Students 6th - 12th
Some dinosaurs get all the attention. Pupils use an interactive resource to study some of the lesser-known dinosaur species. Organizing the information in a cladogram allows learners to make connections among the species.
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Scale Drawings of Dinosaurs

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students, working in groups, make scale drawings of dinosaurs. The four groups then assemble their assigned parts into one composite drawing.