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LESSON PLANS (print version) pdf What is a Fossil?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students can better explain how mould and cast fossils occur when they make their own cast fossils using plaster of Paris and objects such as shells, bone or even their own hand or footprint.
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Dino Fossils

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Primary paleontologists discover the information they can gather from examining fossils. They place pictures in the correct sequence showing how an animal becomes a fossil. They discuss which sediments would preserve fossils better as well.
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The Reptiles

For Students 5th - 8th
In this reptiles worksheet, 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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Number 1

For Students Pre-K - K
In this math worksheet, students decorate the number one. Students also color in a cartoon dinosaur.
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Stegosaurus

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this making words worksheet, students make 31 English words from the letters in the word stegosaurus. Students write out 3 facts about the stegosaurus dinosaur on the lines provided.
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Interactive
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Past Tense 1

For Students 4th - 5th
Nothing says past tense like the Ice Age. Learners fill in the blanks for each of 10 sentences with the proper past tense verb. Each sentence focuses on information related to dinosaurs or Ice Age animals.
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It's A Bird...It's A Plane...It's...CARBON!

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
An interesting lesson takes pupils on a trip through the carbon cycle. A reading passage allows scholars to take notes and make choices about what happens to the carbon on its journey. This third lesson in a series of 21 discusses...
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World of Dinosaurs Game

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science worksheet, students write each of the vocabulary terms that relate to earth science listed in the spaces of the bingo card provided. Then they use the clues at the bottom of the sheet to match to its correct science term...
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Discovering Dinosaurs: Planning your Summer Vacation

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students utilize the features of the Atlas of Canada website to plan an imaginary vacation from Victoria, British Columbia to Drumheller, Alberta.
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Science: Down Home Dinosaurs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
students participate in hands-on activities to discover the different types of fossils. Using teacher-provided materials, they make models of cast and trace fossils. After writing essays describing how traces are formed, students plan a...
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Alphabet 6

For Students Pre-K - K
In this literacy instructional activity, students cut out all the cards and match the letter to the correct picture. Then they paste them next to each other on a separate piece of paper. There are eight letters and eight pictures to match.
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Organizer
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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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Estimate the Number of Objects

For Students 7th
For this estimating the number of objects worksheet, 7th graders complete 12 different problems that include estimation of numbers. First, they guess how many of each object there is in each problem. Then, students check their work by...
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Designasaurus: Modeling Activity for a Paleoartist

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create and draw fictional dinosaurs. They write a description of their dinosaur.
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Climatic Changes

For Students 6th - 8th
In this weather worksheet, middle schoolers read an excerpt describing the climate and extinction. Then they explain what the climate was like during the Age of Dinosaurs. Students also determine some factors that affected the climate...
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Evolution: Natural Selection

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students analyze and discuss the evolutionary history of dinosaurs.  In this investigative instructional activity students monitor different organisms in the environment and analyze the pressures that affect the chances of survival. 
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The Lost World (4 parts)

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders view this science fiction adventure, though not scientifically accurate, creates opportunities to explore the extinction of dinosaurs and to explore evolution.
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Scientific Inquiry 3

For Teachers 6th
In this lesson, 6th graders research and examine current theories behind the mass extinction of dinosaurs. After a discusion about the extinction of the dinosaurs, students discuss the two major extinction theories talked about in the...
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Birds

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study birds and examine the idea that they evolved from reptiles or dinosaurs.  In this birds lesson students divide into groups and research one side of the debate, then at the end have the students debate each-other. 
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Dino Cylinders

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners investigate the capacity of containers using small dinosaur figures as the unit of measure. They work with a number of different shaped containers to compare the capacity as they practice counting the dinosaurs. They complete an...
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Triceratops picture

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this triceratops worksheet, students color the picture of the triceratops and then read a paragraph about it and answer the questions. Students answer 3 multiple choice questions.
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Listening/Reading Transfer - Guided Reading

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students are read "Danny the Dinosaur" and explore alternate endings. They answer questions about the story to answer as they go.
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Pachycephalasaurus

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Bet you can't say that three times fast! Your pupils will have fun saying and finding as many words as they can in the word Pachycephalasaurus. After the word play, class members have a chance to do a little research about the dinosaur...
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Relative Dating - Telling Time Using Fossils

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students use fossil range charts to explain relative dating. They graph for ammonites, marine organisms that went extinct at the same time as dinosaurs.

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