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Pbs Learning Media: Fossilized Dinosaur Bones

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features a variety of images of fossilized dinosaur bones, which provide evidence for the existence of these fascinating reptiles.
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Museums Victoria

Melbourne Museum: Dinosaur Walk

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an excellent, high-quality resolution, virtual tour of the dinosaur exhibits at the Melbourne Museum in Australia. Provides information about seventeen dinosaurs, a coloring fact sheet for each, and videos of scientists talking...
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Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: What Killed the Dinosaurs?

For Students 9th - 10th
Researchers are beginning to find data implicating that an asteroid impact and supervolcanoes might have been the beginning of the end of dinosaurs on Earth.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How a Dinosaur Became a Fossil

For Students 3rd - 8th
This interactive resource adapted from the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley shows how a dinosaur can be buried under sediment after it dies, become a fossil, and then become exposed and discovered by...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Walking With Dinosaurs

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Dig into this collection of dinosaur resources offered for dinosaur walkers of all ages. Hit the Dinosaur Playground with younger students to engage in a variety of games, activities, and puzzles.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Discovering Dinosaurs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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.
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Tramline: Dinosaurs: A Prehistoric Adventure for Grades 2 5

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Travel across the Internet to learn about dinosaurs in this virtual field trip. The trip is designed for Grades Two to Five. Topics include dinosaur fossils, extinction, paleontology, anatomy, behavior, etc.
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University of California

Ucmp: Name a Dinosaur Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This article shows how scientists put together the scientific names of dinosaurs using Greek and Latin roots.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Measurement: Comparing Dinosaurs

For Teachers 1st Standards
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.
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Other

Danielle's Place: Dinosaur Crafts and Learning Activities for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st
These are some fun dinosaur crafts to do with younger children and dinosaur games for a teacher to make. A few crafts are only available to paying members. This is a Christian site, and the author takes the biblical view that dinosaurs...
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Maryland Department of Natural Resources: Maryland Dinosaurs

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes some of the dinosaur findings in Maryland, U.S.A.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Dinosaurs and Cave People

For Students 9th - 10th
Site uncovers the truth behind some common dinosaur myths.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Dinosaurs of Utah

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn why Utah is known as a prime location for the discovery of dinosaur fossils and why, in 1988 the Allosaurus was named Utah's official state fossil.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Swimming Dinosaurs

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Found! Australia's Largest Dinosaurs

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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University of California

Ucmp: Early Dinosaur Discoveries in North America

For Students 9th - 10th
This survey of early dinosaur discoveries in North America discusses the first dinosaur specimens and the scientific debate that they inspired.
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Other

University of Bristol: The Kt Event

For Students 9th - 10th
This dinosaur site, containing eight different sections, includes topics such as: 101 crazy theories about dinosaur extinction, the pattern and timing of extinction, evidence for late cretaceous climatic change, gradual extinction and...
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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Willo: The Dinosaur With a Heart

For Students 3rd - 8th
Willo is a Thescelosaurus that lived 66 million years ago. Scientists discovered his fossilized heart inside his skeleton and were able to apply medical technology to analyze it. A description of the project and its findings is given...
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Other

Dinosaur and Planetary History: Heavyweight Champions of the Dinosaur World

For Students 3rd - 8th
Some of the largest and heaviest carnivorous dinosaurs are profiled.
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Dinosaur and Planetary History: Earthshakers the Largest Animals Ever

For Students 3rd - 8th
These herbivorous dinosaurs were the largest dinosaurs and, for some, the largest animals, ever to roam the Earth.
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Maryland Dept. Of Natural Resources: Astrodon Johnstoni: Maryland State Dinosaur

For Students 9th - 10th
This article presentes Astrodon Johnstoni, Maryland's official state dinosaur.
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Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum (Uk): What Dinosaur Are You?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this activity, the user will answer eleven quiz questions to determine whether they would be considered a carnivore or a herbivore.
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Carnegie's Dinosaurs: Dino Guide: Corythosaur

For Students 3rd - 8th
Study a Corythosaurus up close with this concise resource from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: N q.a.3: Dinosaur Bones

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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.

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