Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Measurement: Comparing Dinosaurs
First Graders need to use direct and indirect comparisons to measure objects. Today they will use their new knowledge of dinosaurs to find the longest of the giant lizards.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Geo Logic: Dinosaur Trackways
Using GEOLogic questions and puzzles, young scholars associate different dinosaur trackways with their locations and the rock formations containing the trackways based on clues given from various points of view.
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Dinosaurs on the Beach Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Dinosaurs on the Beach, a novel written by Marilyn Helmer, looks at a child's search for fossils on a beach in Nova Scotia. This teacher's guide includes a book summary, teaching ideas and the author's reflections on writing the book.
Success Link
Success Link: Dinosaur Corners
A short lesson plan for early elementary students to help them recognize four major dinosaurs. Use the provided drawings of the dinosaurs to make posters for students to identify.
Utah Education Network
Uen: What Did You Find?
Use a k-w-l chart to learn about dinosaurs or fossils.
SEDL
Sedl: Extinction
This second lesson in a course on dinosaurs is devoted to extinction. There are group activities, discussion of the idea, and a way to assess what the learners have learned.
Utah Education Network
Uen: How Big Is a Dinosaur?
Create an enlarged replica of a stegosaurus drawing.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Dig It!
Children will enjoy learning about dinosaurs through the use of technology, research, hands-on activities, discussions, and written and oral presentations. This unit will help students to collaborate as a group and manage their own time.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Geo Logic: Museums and Their Dinosaur Displays
Using GEOLogic questions, students match five top museums with two fossils that they have on display based on clues presented from various points of view.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: N q.a.3: Dinosaur Bones
The purpose of this task is to illustrate through an absurd example the fact that in real life quantities are reported to a certain level of accuracy, and it does not make sense to treat them as having greater accuracy. Aligns with N-Q.A.3.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Dinosaur Fossils
Students will enhance their understanding of fossils. Students explore fossils by creating their own fossil imprints using Play-Doh and Plaster of Paris.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: What Can Fossil Footprints Tell Us?
In this investigation, students examine an image of multiple fossil footprint tracks. They try to construct an explanation for the events that created the pattern of tracks. Even though students come up with different explanations for...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Ontogeny
A series of lessons that introduce students to growth series so they can better understand how dinosaurs are studied. Students will learn about growth series in both humans and dinosaurs. By learning about the growth series students will...
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Dinosphere
Young scholars will learn how dinosaurs were classified, compare shapes and sizes, and explore how paleontologists make discoveries. They'll analyze how dinosaurs interacted back in the day, and make their own dinosaur drawings and a...
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Measuring a Dino
Young scholars will begin exploring dinosaur' bodies by measuring them and comparing dinosaur size to their own size.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Start Here! Welcome to Patterns!
This is an introduction to patterns. In this topic we're going to explore the geometry behind the creation of dinosaur skin. It includes two lessons: Lesson 1: Geometry of dinosaur scales (Grades 5+) and Lesson 2: Painting with Perlin...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Are Shading Packets?
This video [3:01] lesson students learn what shading packets are and how they are used to create patterns such as a dinosaur"s skin.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Teeth Identification in Omnivores, Herbivores and Carniv
In this lesson plan, students make puppets out of paper bags and use corn to give their animal (dinosaur, raccoon, etc.) the correct type of teeth based on the animal's diet.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Phylogenetics Problems
A lesson plan where students solve problems by using cladistics to determine phylogenies. Problems require that students determine which characteristics are ancestral or derived by looking at both dinosaurs' remains and primate skulls....
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Animal Measurement Activity Plan
Animal Fun is here! In this week's adventure, Animal Measurement, children will explore measurement with the help of hermit crabs (investigating size correspondence by matching a hermit crab to its appropriate shell), beavers (visual...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Fossils in Time Unit
In this lesson, students learn about the earth's past by studying clues that have been left behind, such as fossils and rocks. Students will find the answers to many questions: What is paleontology?, What is geological time?, What can we...
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Arizona Sonora Desert Museum: Make a Fossil Mold and Cast [Pdf]
In this activity, students will make a fake fossil cast using plaster of Paris. A second activity on comprehending the size of dinosaurs is included in this file.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Carbon 14 Dating in Practice Ii
This problem introduces Carbon 14 dating which is used by scientists to date certain organic material. This version is based on the ratio of Carbon 14 to Carbon 12, which decreases at a constant exponential rate after an organism dies....
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