University of California
Ucmp: Name a Dinosaur Activity
This article shows how scientists put together the scientific names of dinosaurs using Greek and Latin roots.
Other
University of Bristol: What Were the Dinosaurs, and How Did They Live?
Answers to a series of nine questions related to dinosaurs. There are a number of links to other informative sites as well.
PBS
Pbs: Nova: The Four Winged Dinosaur
In 2002, paleontologists discovered a fossil in China that seemed to provide a missing link between dinosaurs and birds, and to support the theory that birds evolved from dinosaurs. The fossil came from a four-winged dinosaur they named...
Other
Clever Island: Dinosaurs
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...
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.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Dinosaurs of Utah
Learn why Utah is known as a prime location for the discovery of dinosaur fossils and why, in 1988 the Allosaurus was named Utah's official state fossil.
Other
Hartao: An Introduction to Plate Tectonics
Introduces South African Alexander Toit as naming Gondwanaland and Laurasia.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: William Buckland
A short biography about the geologist and palaeontologist who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur named Megalosaurus.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Walking With Dinosaurs: Fact File: Utahraptor
An information page about the Utahraptor, a carnivorous dinosaur that lived over 100 million years ago. It was first found in Utah in 1991, hence its name.
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: Tyrone the Big Bad Bully [Pdf]
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.
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: Tyrone the Cheater [Pdf]
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?...
Children's Museum
Dinosphere: Dino Profiles: Meet Dracorex Hogwartsia
Learn about a dinosaur whose name means "Dragon King of Hogwarts." From the fossils of the newly discovered Dracorex hogwartsia, we learn about the dinosaur's unique physical features.
Read Works
Read Works: Who Is Sue?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses information about a dinosaur that researchers named "Sue", which was found in South Dakota. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills....
abcteach
Abcteach: Animals
[Free Registration/Login Required] This link will place at your fingertips all kinds of resources for your science unit pertaining to animals such as birds, bugs, dinosaurs, endangered species, fish, mammals and reptiles.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Dinosaur Footprint
This picture shows a fossilized dinosaur footprint found in the Lower Jurassic Moenave Formation in Utah, USA. Named Eubrontes, these types of footprints date from the late Triassic Period to the early Jurassic Period and are identified...
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: Tyrone: The Double Dirty Rotten Cheater [Pdf]
This e-book shares the story of young dinosaurs who are always cheated out of winning games by a larger dinosaur named Tyrone. Students will enjoy reading to learn how the young dinosaurs work together to solve this problem.
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: Tyrone and the Swamp Gang [Pdf]
This ebook shares the story of a small dinosaur named Boland and his gang of small dinosaurs. Boland must overcome his fear of the bully Tyrone and face him so that they continue to play.
Other
Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc.: Stan T. Rex
Stan T. Rex is the name given to a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton that was excavated and reconstructed by the Black Hills Institute. Stan is sixty-five percent bone and among the most complete T. Rex skeletons in the world that scientists...
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Dracorex Hogwartsia
The Dracorex hogwartsia lived 66 million years ago. It was discovered in South Dakota. Due to its resemblance to a dragon, scientists named it Dracorex hogwartsia in author J. K. Rowling's honor. A brief description is given here.
LM Digital Media
Kids World Fun: Tyronne the Horrible [Pdf]
This e-book includes the story of a small dinosaur that keeps getting bullied by a T-Rex named Tyrone.
Children's Museum
Dinosphere: Dino Profiles: Meet Frannie the Prenoceratops
Learn what a fossil named "Frannie" can tells us about a herbivorous dinosaur called the Prenoceratops, a cousin of Triceratops. View a taxonomy table, learn about this dinosaur's physical features, and interact with skeleton to learn...
Other
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science: The Bisti Beast
The Bisti Beast's official name is Bistahieversor sealeyi. It is a tyrannosaur dinosaur, related to the Albertosaurus and the Daspletosaurus, and found in New Mexico. These two pages describe the discovery and reconstruction of this...
Children's Museum
Dinosphere: Dino Profiles: Meet Stan the T. Rex
What can a fossil named "Stan" tell us about Tyrannosaurus rex? Read about paleontologists' findings about the T. rex diet, teeth, and brain thanks to Stan, and use an interactive skeleton to view and learn about T. rex's bones.
Children's Museum
Dinosphere: Dino Profiles: Meet Bucky the Teenage T Rex
See what a T. rex fossil named "Bucky" tells us about Bucky's life in the late Cretaceous Period and about T. rex in general.