Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Answers to Exploration Questions: Dinosaur Extinction
Explore the dinosaur extinction with the answers to this exploration questions on this site.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Dinosaur Train Buddy's Amazing Adventure
Help Buddy get King to the convention as you learn about different dinosaurs along the way!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Hands on Activity
This is a hands on activity asks students to design and build a certain number dinosaur parts in order to create a crowd of a given size. Apply combinatorics to design your own crowd of dinosaurs. Click on First Lesson before you begin...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Answers to Exploration Questions: What Is a Dinosaur?
Do you know what a dinosaur is? This site has answers to the exploration questions about dinosaurs and a common ancestors.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Answers to Exploration Questions: Dinosaur Fossils
Find the answers to the dinosaur exploration questions on this site.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Investigating Animals Packet: Pre K and K: Summer of Possibilities
Use these animal-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures while investigating animals.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Can We Clone Dinosaurs From Dna?
A page dedicated to answering the of can we use DNA to clone the dinosaurs.
University of California
Ucmp: Early Dinosaur Discoveries in North America
This survey of early dinosaur discoveries in North America discusses the first dinosaur specimens and the scientific debate that they inspired.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Dinosaurs for Kids
Dinosaurs: Kids learn about these ancient animals that wondered the Earth thousands of years ago. We know about them from studying fossils.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Swimming Dinosaurs
From ABC News in Science, Will Dunham's article, "Swimming dinosaurs touched bottom of lake," explores fossilized foot marks found on a lake bottom which suggest strong swimming ability on the part of the dinosaurs.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Dinosaur 'Feathers' Are No Such Thing
From ABC News in Science, this article explores the validity behind current findings and research on the dinosaur to bird theory. The research is conducted on the Sinosauropteryx, which is a turkey-sized dinosaur with "proto-feathers."
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Found! Australia's Largest Dinosaurs
From ABC News in Science, Rob Taylor's article discusses the discovery of dinosaur bones in Australia which lead scientists to conclude the existence of the largest dinosaurs to have roamed Australia.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Piece of Dinosaur Extinction Asteroid Puzzle Recovered
The first meteorite fossil discovered in this period when tests can be run on it, was found at Chicxulub in Northeastern Yucatan, Mexico. Scientists believe it is part of the meteorite which made the dinosaurs extinct.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Dinosaurs and Cave People
Site uncovers the truth behind some common dinosaur myths.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dinosaurs: Build a Dinosaur
Build your own dinosaur by choosing different styles of body parts from actual dinosaurs.
University of California
Ucmp: Welcome to the Dinobuzz
Site details with the current topics concerning dinosaurs. Site covers dinosaur speeds, dinosaur extinction, warm-blooded dinosaurs and more.
Kidport
Kidport: Reference Library: Dinosaurs
A nicely illustrated and informative site on dinosaurs from the Cambrian period until the Quaternary period.
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: Four Winged Dinosaur
Researchers have known about four-winged dinosaurs for some time, but have recently determined how these extra wings were used. The dynamics of these extra appendages are outlined in this article.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Drawing Dinosaurs
A tutorial on how to draw a realistic dinosaur starting from a picture of a skeleton.
Other
Museo Nacional De Ciencias Naturales: Actividades Educativas; Juega
A Spanish-language trivia game about dinosaurs.
Other
Germantown Academy: Dinosaurs
This resource presents numerous examples of student work during a Grade Two dinosaur unit. Included are poems, clay models, stories and other creative products.
Other
Catastrophism and Mass Extinctions
An overview of Walter and Luis Alverez's theory that a large meteorite crashed into earth causing huge tidal waves, showers of ash, and an enormous dust cloud.
Other
Who Dunnit to the Dinosaurs?
"One of the great mysteries in science is the extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Mesozoic Era some 65 million years ago. Who (or more likely what) caused it is unknown and a subject of great debate." Many theories are touched...
Other
Regional Alliance for Information Networking: Download a Dinosaur
Download paper dinosaurs to use for various craft activities. Select from 18 different dinosaurs.