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Worksheet
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Comparing Dinosaurs

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this dinosaur themed worksheet, students answer 4 multiple choice questions where they compare dinosaur sizes. Next, students label 5 dinosaurs in a list from longest to shortest using the numbers 1 to 5.
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Lesson Plan
Desert Discoveries

Sizing Up Dinosaurs

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Here is a terrific activity in which learners compare their size to the size of actual dinosaurs. Using the magic of the overhead projector and a transparency of the outline of a dinosaur skeleton, pupils can see how big these animals...
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Lesson Plan
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Dinosaurs and Classification

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore dinosaurs and identify them by their size. They compare the dinosaurs with objects around the school or on the playground. Students predict which dinosaurs are the largest and then measure the length of dinosaurs.
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Lesson Plan
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When Dinosaurs Ruled the World

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students graph the varying sizes of dinosaurs.  In this math and dinosaur lesson, students view dinosaur models and compare the different shapes and sizes of the dinosaurs.  Students complete a dinosaur math activity, read The Dinosaur...
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PBS

Reading Adventure Pack: Dinosaurs

For Parents 1st Standards
Two books—Dinosaurs by Gail Gibbons and Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hof—begin a learning experience in which scholars complete three creative, imaginative, and real-world activities. First, pupils create a puzzle featuring their...
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Lesson Plan
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What Makes a Dinosaur a Dinosaur?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore dinosaur stance and the dinosaur-bird connection. They investigate what distinguishes dinosaurs from other reptiles? Students discuss how dinosaurs stand their legs positioned directly under their bodies. They are...
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Lesson Plan
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Footprints: Take a Step into Estimation

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Compare sizes of student footprints with those of elephants and sauropod dinosaurs! Upper graders make estimations of the areas of irregular shapes; students use grids to make and explain estimates within low and high ranges.
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Dino-Myte Spreadsheet

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Do your learners like dinosaurs and theme parks? An ambitious lesson invites learners to put together a plan for supplying dinosaurs for a new theme park. Pupils work together in groups to come up with their plan, which must include a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Nature Art

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this nature art lesson, students take a nature walk and collect items with different sizes, textures and colors. Students use the items they collect to make a collage.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dinosaurs - Online Research

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders familiarize themselves with dinosaurs through online research.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dinosaur Mathematics

For Teachers 5th
In this science and math worksheet, 5th graders answer four different questions related to dinosaurs. They graph the information with data located at a given website.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dino-Facts!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use a database to gather facts about dinosaurs. They practice searching about specific dinosaurs that are of interest to them. To end the lesson, they write a story describing the behaviors, eating habits, and environments of...
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Lesson Plan
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Creating Dinosaurs from Tracks

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students learn how scientists compare dinosaur tracks to those of modern animals, how scientists create a full model of a dinosaur from its tracks and how the age of dinosaur tracks is determined.
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Lesson Plan
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Dinosaur Prints

For Teachers K - 1st
Students examine dinosaur footprints and compare them to the shape of elephant footprints and to the size of their own footprints.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dinosaurs II Assembling a Dinosaur

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate where scientists find dinosaur bones and decide why rebuilding them is important. They create a scale model of a dinosaur.
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American Museum of Natural History

A Whale of a Tale

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
What's the most interesting fact about a blue whale? Learners read an interview about the similarities between the Titanosaur and the blue whale displays at the American Museum of Natural History. Pupils learn not only about blue whales...
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Worksheet
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Big and Little Dinosaurs

For Students K - 2nd
In this size comparison worksheet, students cut out the six different dinosaurs and then paste the dinosaurs into the small or big section to show size.
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Lesson Plan
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Theme: Dinosaurs

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify at least ten different dinosaurs and name them. Students explain the difference between plant-eating dinosaurs and meat-eating dinosaurs. Students explain how scientists know about dinosaurs.
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Lesson Plan
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What Is A Dinosaur?

For Teachers K - 4th
Students use the question of "What is a dinosaur?" in order to establish the context for a class investigation. They use a variety of resources in order to gather information. Students compare and contrast the similarities or differences...
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Lesson Plan
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Extinction

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore reasons why the dinosaurs became extinct, and the specific needs (habitat, environment, food) of individual types of dinosaurs.
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Lesson Plan
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Types of Dinosaurs

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students complete puzzles of dinosaurs. They compare each piece of the puzzle to a fossil and simulate a scientist's role in learning about dinosaurs.
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Lesson Plan
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Dino-facts

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this science worksheet, students investigate and compare 14 species of dinosaur by first reading about what their names mean. Students read 25 facts about these dinosaurs and complete a word search puzzle.
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Lesson Plan
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Make a Dinosaur

For Teachers K
Students estimate the size of dinosaurs and create a dinosaur model. They create bar graphs of the sizes of dinosaurs one in meters and the other in "student" units. They draw a pictures and add words or sentences about their dinosaur.
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Lesson Plan
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Get Cracking

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils compare the life cycle of an animal hatched from an egg with one born from its mother's womb. The lesson focuses on dinosaur eggs. They create dinosaur eggs from balloons and papier mache.