Dinosaur Characteristics and Groupings

Take your class of youngsters on a prehistoric adventure with this four-lesson series on dinosaurs. Accompanying the Meet the Dinosaurs books by Don Lessem, these lessons engage children in writing their own dinosaur books, making...

Students investigate the physical characteristics of dinosaurs. They participate in a puppet show, take a field trip to a dinosaur museum, and compare/contrast dinosaur characteristics at the museum.

Build a function to solve problems rooted in archeology. A comprehensive set of five lessons presents problems requiring individuals to use functions. The initial lesson asks learners to find the possible number of dinosaurs from a...

Students explore items of interest including dinosaurs. They generate, record and answer relevant questions based on oral, shared and/or independent readings of informational texts and available multiple resources on a topic of class...

Students hypothesize what would happen if dinosaurs return to Earth. In this creative reading comprehension lesson, the class listens to the story If the Dinosaurs Came Back and brainstorm ideas of what might happen if dinosaurs were to...

Students conduct research about animals that lay eggs such as reptiles and birds. After identifying characteristics of reptiles and discussing the connection to dinosaurs, they create a three-dimensional paper mache dinosaur egg with a...

Students, in groups, examine dinosaur pictures and classify them according to their characteristics. They verify their classifications by conducting Internet research. Students also select dinosaurs and draw detailed pictures of them.

Students explore the 3-dimensional geometric forms of dinosaurs from the Jurassic Period. They apply various construction and color-effect techniques in modeling an imaginary dinosaur. Students study a variety of pictures and models of...

Students write a report on dinosaurs. In this dinosaurs lesson plan, students research, classify characteristics, fill out KWL charts, read books about dinosaurs, and finally write a report about dinosaurs.

Students explore dinosaurs. In this science lesson plan, students discuss the characteristics of various dinosaurs and color masks and pictures of the dinosaur groups they have chosen.