Students read all about dinosaurs. In this biology lesson plan, students  examine how to use library research as integral part of scientific research.

Second graders examine facts that can be found in nonfiction books. They listen to a read aloud of Patrick's Dinosaur, with time before the end for student predictions. They make dinosaur t-shirts using facts from the book.

Students are read a short book "Time Train" by Paul Fleischman. Using the text, they identify the clues to let them know the train is traveling back in time. They make a time line of the trip and make a cutout of meat-eating and...

Second graders examine the formation of fossils and list the different types. They make cast model of a dinosaur fossil. They write about conditions that are necessary for fossils to form and create a model of a buried fossil.

Looking for a simple worksheet on topic sentences? This one's for you! Learners find the topic sentence for each paragraph by cutting out the paragraphs and placing them in the right order.

Students investigate what a fossil is and how it came to be.  In this fossil instructional activity, students examine pictures of skeletons and identify characteristics that can and cannot be determined by a fossil.  Students...