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Estimation

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders gain an understanding of estimation as an educated guess. They explore measuring and how looking at various object size and shape can help form ones guess towards estimation. They use dinosaurs for an estimation activity.
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Dinosaur Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students review dodging, chasing and fleeing skills while reinforcing concepts about dinosaurs. They need to review the following concepts about how dinosaurs eat and move: Herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat meat, and omnivores eat both.
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Dinosaur reports-4 blocks guided reading & focused writing (Elementary, 4 Blocks)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read books about dinosaurs for book club groups and then participate in focused writing. In this reading and writing lesson, students work together over the course of three days to produce a group story about a dinosaur.
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Learn About Dinosaurs

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students read facts about dinosaurs and then participate in a variety of dinosaur activities. In this dinosaur lesson plan, students paint dinosaur eggs, play dinosaur bingo, and more.
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Dinosaurs: "If I had a Dinosaur"

For Teachers 1st
First graders analyze what it would be like to own a dinosaur. In this dinosaur writing lesson, 1st graders review knowledge and key terms about dinosaurs in order to complete a one paragraph creative writing assignment. Students compile...
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Death of the Dinosaur

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students consider theories of dinosaur extinction. In this reading comprehension lesson, students read an article about dinosaur extinction theories. Students may also complete the suggested activities. The article is not included.
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Where Are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore what the dinosaurs were like. For this dinosaur lesson, the teacher peaks student curiosity about dinosaurs. This lesson would be a great starting point for a dinosaur unit since it primarily engages student interest and...
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Dinosaurs-Eoraptor

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore the Eoraptor. In this dinosaurs lesson, students read facts about the habitat and eating habits of the Eoraptor and illustrate a picture of the dinosaur.
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Dinosaur

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this printing practice worksheet, students identify the word dinosaur. Students then practice printing the word dinosaur and then print the word on their own.
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Dinosaur Train: Even Bigger Than T. Rex!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners understand the length of some of the longest dinosaurs. In this dinosaur train lesson plan, students watch a video clip of "I'm a T. Rex!". Then the teacher marks off how big a T. Rex and other dinosaurs are with tape and...
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The Reptiles

For Students 5th - 8th
In this reptiles instructional activity, 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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Dinosaur Cut and Paste

For Students 1st
In this dinosaur instructional activity, 1st graders color each dinosaur half. Students then cut out the back half of each dinosaur and paste it onto the matching front half for the dinosaurs. Students create four dinosaurs.
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Books for Teaching Dinosaurs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students investigate dinosaurs through books. For this lesson about dinosaurs, students read a variety of books about dinosaurs. Students become familiar with dinosaurs through reading about them. Students learn that reading is...
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Big and Little Dinosaurs

For Students K - 2nd
In this size comparison worksheet, learners cut out the six different dinosaurs and then paste the dinosaurs into the small or big section to show size.
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Dinosaur Alliterations

For Students 4th - 5th
In this alliteration worksheet, students review the definition and an example for alliterations. Students then write their own alliterations about dinosaurs and illustrate one of their examples in the box.
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Dinosaur KWL

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this dinosaur worksheet, students complete a KWL chart for dinosaurs. Students must fill in the table for what they know, what they want to know, and what they have learned about dinosaurs.
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Favorite Dinosaur

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this dinosaur graphing worksheet, students use this form to gather information on people's favorite dinosaurs. Students use tally marks to record the responses.
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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
In 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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Dinosaurs

For Students 5th - 6th
In this earth science worksheet, students match each vocabulary term, that names something specific related to earth science, with its correct description found in the right column. They identify different types of scientists and various...
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Adopt-A-Dinosaur Fact Sheet

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science worksheet, students complete the blank fact sheet by selecting a dinosaur of their choice. They name its family, size, location, time period found, foods ate, and some amazing facts about it.
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Adopt-A-Dinosaur Project

For Students 6th - 8th
For this science worksheet, students research a dinosaur of their choice. Then they create a picture page that includes a slogan that describes their dinosaur. Students also complete a fact sheet, including all of their resources used.
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Dinosaur Jokes

For Students 5th - 7th
In this science worksheet, students use the key code found on the right to locate the answers to each of the bad dinosaur jokes. Then they write out the answer to the joke.
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Picture Scramble: Dinosaurs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
For this picture scramble worksheet, young scholars place scrambled pieces of a dinosaur picture in the correct place to create a full picture of the dinosaur. There are nine scrambled pieces for each of the three dinosaur puzzles.