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Read Works: Small Wonder
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the fossil of a pterosaur found in China. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Face to Fossil: Protoceratops
Questions and answers about Protoceratops andrewsi, presented as an "interview" with a museum's fossil. Learn about the dinosaur, the age of the fossil, and how the museum had it transported.
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Read Works: Dinosaur Discovery
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text dinosaur fossils found on an island in Germany. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: King of the Slowpokes
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a Tyrannosaurus rex and why scientists think it was not able to run very quickly. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Ology Quiz: What Do You Know? Paleontology
Test your knowledge of paleontology by taking a quick quiz.
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Troodon Formosus
The Canadian Museum of Nature looks at one of the rarest of dinosaurian fossils - the Troodon Formosus.
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Mamenchisauras
The Canadian Museum of Nature looks the unusual and giant Mamenchisaurus.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Mesozoic Era
Learn the basic information about the Mesozoic Era in Earth's geologic history.
Other
Paleomap Project
Virtual reality animation map showing continental drift from 200mya to the present. The animation map is small but effective in showing the positions of the land masses.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Zoom Dinosaurs
Zoom Dinosaurs is a comprehensive on-line hypertext book about dinosaurs. It is designed for students of all ages and levels of comprehension. It has an easy-to-use structure that allows readers to start at a basic level on each topic,...
Read Works
Read Works: Sea Monsters
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about three groups of reptiles that lived in prehistoric oceans: ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
Center for Educational Technologies
Earth Science Explorer: Dinosaur Floor
Take a tour of the dinosaur floor and you'll read several theories about why dinosaurs became extinct.
Australian Museum
Australian Museum: Meat Eating Dinosaurs Teeth
Some excellent photos of the teeth of carnivorous dinosaurs are presented.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Discovering Dinosaurs
A lesson where students investigate how paleontologists interpret evidence from dinosaur finds in order to develop hypotheses and theories about how they lived. Includes downloadable worksheets.
Other
Dino Dictionary: Profiles of Over 300 Known Dinosaurs!
This site is a must for learning about dinosaurs. It profiles over 300 known species. It also lets you hear how to pronounce the name.
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Dinosaur Depot Museum: Dinosaur Coloring Book [Pdf]
A variety of Colorado dinosaurs are profiled in this dinosaur coloring book. The drawings were created by fifth and sixth graders at Skyline Elementary School, located near a major dinosaur site at Garden Park, Colorado. Each picture is...
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: Play! Scholastic: You Dig?
Play this interactive game to uncover the bones of a dinosaur. Pick your favorite dinosaur then use the tools to find their bones. When completed , a picture will appear. Click on "factoid" to learn information on each dinosaur.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dinosaurs: Build a Dinosaur
Build your own dinosaur by choosing different styles of body parts from actual dinosaurs.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Teeth Identification in Omnivores, Herbivores and Carniv
For 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.
Kidport
Kidport: Reference Library: Dinosaurs
A nicely illustrated and informative site on dinosaurs from the Cambrian period until the Quaternary period.
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.
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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.