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,...

A read-aloud anthology focuses on Earth's history. Over three weeks, young scholars listen to and discuss stories about the layers of the Earth, minerals, fossils, different kinds of rocks, and dinosaurs. After the lesson's text, each...

Students read stories about the past and present and discuss the concept of old and new. In this old and new lesson plan, students discuss what makes something old and what makes it new by using stories as a reference.

How can you tell if someone is happy? The lesson works with elementary and middle school scholars to activate their schema and pay attention to details to make inferences in their daily lives, poetry, and other literature. Cleverly...

Dinosaur Train sparks children's interest in life science and natural history. As they explore a variety of animals, children develop the inquiry skills and knowledge needed to help them think, talk and act like paleontologists. Choose...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explore the three periods of the Mesozoic Era, the age when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Find out what happened to the dinosaurs.

This site provides wonderful lesson plans about dinosaurs. Seven sequenced units cover the following topics: extinction, fossils, types of dinosaurs, and the dinosaur life cycle. The site provides basic lesson and background information...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the Mesozoic Era, the age of dinosaurs.

The microraptor was a four-winged carnivorous dinosaur with iridescent black feathers. But if our information about this dinosaur comes from fossils, how can we be certain about its color? Len Bloch shows how making sense of the evidence...

Complete science unit on Dinosaurs in English accompanied by its Spanish version. These resources will help increase the academic achievement of Hispanic children in the classroom.

Click "Start Fieldtrip," for a wonderful look at a subject that has been a constant amazement to children of all ages. This dinosaur learning module for grades 1-3 is a "Prehistoric adventure," discussing dinosaur fossils, the size of...

Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking...

In a spellbinding talk, paleontologist Jack Horner tells the story of how iconoclastic thinking revealed a shocking secret about some of our most beloved dinosaurs. [18:24]

Spot the Dinosaur needs your help to group his friends. Can you help him?

Students can play learning games to explore how to label, read, and create graphs using a dinosaur theme.

This resource presents numerous examples of student work during a Grade Two dinosaur unit. Included are poems, clay models, stories and other creative products.

Dinosaurs could swim? Scientist believe that one in particular could. Learn what they discovered and how this impacts our knowledge of these creatures. Many interactive features are also available on this site.

Fossils found in Argentina have led scientists to change the way they think about the evolution of dinosaurs. A relative of the velociraptor has been found that demonstrated bird-like features. Learn more about these fossils here. [Date...

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...

David Gruber investigates the secret powers of jellyfish.

Nizar Ibrahim uses paleontological and geological data to reconstruct the 'River of Giants' in north Africa in surprising detail.

Students play learning games to explore mass and symmetry.

Students will play learning games to practice moving on a coodinate plane.

Students estimate and count to make equal groups using snacks and other food.