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Dig This: A Relief Sculpture of Dinosaur Bones

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
This is a truly amazing project. Perfect to use during your next dinosaur unit. Second and fifth graders work together to draw and make a relief sculpture of a nine foot-long stegosaurus. They discuss what paleontologists do and then...
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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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What are Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore the attributes of dinosaurs. In this dinosaur lesson plan, students read books and watch videos featuring dinosaurs. Students also research dinosaur traits using Internet sources.
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Dinosaur! Fossil Rush: Tale of a Bone

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Explore 1870s when a "bone rush" led to amazing discoveries, as fossil-hunters risked life and limb in their quest for dinosaur remains. The class uses the attached visual encyclopedia to prep for a discussion on early paleontology. Two...
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Bringing Dinosaurs Back to Life

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explain how the earth makes fossils and how dinosaur remains become fossils. In this Bringing Dinosaurs Back to Life activity, students solve paleo-puzzles which ask students to solve problems as if they were paleontologists....
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Digging Up Dino Data

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use the Internet to research a specific dinosaur. They work in pairs and individually to browse dinosaur websites, take notes on pertinent information, write, edit and illustrate reports. They post their work.
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If You Meet a Dinosaur Book

For Teachers K
Students utilize the facts presented in the story, " If You Meet a Dragon," by Joy Cowley to make a dinosaur following the features of a template, track the text of the story, and dramatize its main idea.
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Dinosaurs Here Yesterday Gone Today

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students take a pre-test to show their prior knowledge of dinosaurs. Using the internet, they reasearch the time period in which they roamed the Earth. Focusing on the area of Connecticut, they compare and contrast the large and small...
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The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs

For Teachers K - 4th
Students draw names of dinosaurs out of a hat and write a report about the one they picked. Students write a riddle about their favorite prehistoric animal, post it on a bulletin board, and have other guess which animal it is about....
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Creatasaurus

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Upper elementary children still are intrigued by dinosaurs. Here is a dinosaur lesson that is geared toward their age group! The learners consider a list of prefixes and suffixes. Using the list, they can analyze the names of their...
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Dinosaur Designs

For Teachers K - 4th
Students study dinosaurs in science and conduct online research to gather written information about his or her dinosaur. Then, in art class, they sketch their dinosaur and create an accurate three-dimensional dinosaur model out of paper...
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Dinosaur Eggs

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars hunt for dinosaur eggs that the teacher has made and hidden on the playground. students open the eggs to find the dinosaur inside and experience archeology first hand.
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Dinosaurs Were Real!

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students investigate the history of dinosaurs, as real animals. In this dinosaur lesson plan, students examine basic concepts that help them understand the history of all life. Included in this article is information on the world of the...
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Dinosaurs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students research and identify the characteristics of a variety of dinosaurs. They participate in a class discussion about dinosaurs, analyze and examine fossils, and conduct research using a variety of sources to write and present a...
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A Dinosaur Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explain what a fossil is, learn six dinosaurs and tell one characteristic about each, then describe verbally what a dinosaur might have looked like.
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Dinosaurs - Online Research

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders familiarize themselves with dinosaurs through online research.
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Dinosaur Days

For Teachers K
Students investigate the age of dinosaurs while examining the characteristics of three kinds of dinosaurs. They examine plant eaters, meat eaters, and flying dinosaurs while determining how to classify things. They rotate through centers...
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Dinosaur Party

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars explore dinosaurs.  In this dinosaurs instructional activity, students view a PowerPoint presentation and write 2 or 3 facts about their favorite dinosaur.  Young scholars sculpt a figure of this dinosaur using modeling...
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Dinosaurs

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore dinosaurs. In this science lesson, students discuss the characteristics of various dinosaurs and color masks and pictures of the dinosaur groups they have chosen.
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Asking the Expert about Dinosaurs

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars view images of dinosaurs on book marked web sites and select one that they would prefer to investigate. Younger students e-mail questions about their dinosaur to polder young scholars who act as experts and respond to the...
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The Legendary Raptors

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How are raptors and airplanes alike? Combine science and language arts in this fun and interactive project. Young scientists research the animal in order to design their own aircraft, and compete in a contest for farthest, fastest, and...
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Designer Dinosaurs - Paper Maché

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore 3-D materials by making a macquette that could be used for a playgroup sculpture. The students design and execute papier-mâché dinosaurs. They develop painting skills and connect art to science.
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Dinosaur Database

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn to use a database to share information about a dinosaur they have researched.
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Dinosaurs - Creatures Of The Past

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners use the Internet to search for dinosaurs, then distinguish between meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs. They explore theories about the extinction of dinosaurs and create illustrations of dinosaurs using Kid Pix or other...

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