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Where Are the Dinosaurs?
Students recognize that they haven't seen a dinosaur because they no longer exist. In this dinosaur lesson, students view videos and understand what the dinosaur habitat was like. Students role play dinosaurs. Students explore dinosaur...
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Dinosaur Names Mix And Match
In this vocabulary worksheet, students examine pictures of 16 dinosaurs and learn their names. Students study the word and picture cards. There are no directions but these could be cut apart for a matching game or used on a word wall.
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What's In a Name?
In this what's in a name worksheet, students determine meanings of dinosaurs' names. In this fill in the blank worksheet students write five answers plus complete an enrichment activity.
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Creatasaurus
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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Discovering Dinosaurs
Third graders use an online database to gather information about five dinosaurs that are of interest to them. Using a chart, they record their length, height and two interesting facts for each dinosaur. They draw a picture of the...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Dinosaur Bones (Barner)
Dig into some prehistoric vocabulary in Bob Barner's informative book Dinosaur Bones. This works best if you introduce the primitive words before reading the story. These are the focus terms in the text: ancient, climate, extinct,...
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Introduce Vocabulary: How Do Dinosaurs Go To School? (Yolen)
Dinosaurs don't go to school...but what if they did? Use Jane Yolen's book How Do Dinosaurs Go To School to explore vocabulary in context. Find this on YouTube if you don't have the text on hand. These in-text words give some ideas of...
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Introduce Vocabulary: How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? (Yolen and Teague)
If you are reading Jane Yolen's fun story How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?, use these strategies to enhance the experience for budding readers. What new words will they learn? Find detailed comprehension questions for these in-text words:...
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Digging Up Dino Data
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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Dinosaurs 1: Where are the Dinosaurs?
Learners investigate world history by creating a diorama in class. For this dinosaur extinction lesson, students read assigned text discussing the time frame of the dinosaurs residence on Earth and their eventual demise. Learners...
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What Were Dinosaurs Like?
Students view a video clips about Dinosaurs. In this dinosaur lesson, students begin to understand the extinction of the dinosaurs by comparing them to contemporary animals. Students complete a research sheet on one dinosaur by...
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Digging For Dinosaurs
For this dinosaur themed worksheet, students work together as a team of paleontologists to draw the dinosaur bones they discovered at a dig site. They must label their drawing on a grid map and then provide data about the length and...
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My Mini Book About...
Elementary learners complete a mini book on polar bears. The resource contains four pages, each a quarter of a page, including one title page with a picture of a polar bear and a space for kids to write their names.Â
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Dinosaur Matching
In this dinosaur matching learning exercise, students look at 5 pictures of dinosaurs and read 5 names, then draw a line to match the picture to the name.
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Dinosaur World Word Search
In this dinosaur word search instructional activity, learners locate the 16 dinosaur names and related terms listed in the provided word bank within the word puzzle.
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Dinosaurs Crossword- Medium Difficulty
For this dinosaur crossword worksheet, students complete a puzzle, reading the clues and filling in the answers. There is no word bank for the puzzle.
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Dinosaur Search
In this dinosaur word search, students look for and locate the names of dinosaurs. This appears to be a student made worksheet. There is no word bank.
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Dinosaur Poem
In this reading activity, students read a poem about different colored dinosaurs and color. Students color in the related illustrations and cut them out to form a dinosaur book.
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Dinosaur Themed Guided Reading
Students complete and participate in various guided reading activities about dinosaurs. They read poems, complete a graphic organizer, complete a cloze activity, and develop a list of dinosaur facts.
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Dinosaurs Word Search
In this dinosaurs word search learning exercise, students search for the names of 30 dinosaurs that are hidden in the puzzle. They locate words such as diploducus, elasmobranch, hadrosaur, and iguanadon.
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Dinosaurs Word Search- Very Difficult
In this dinosaur word search, students find 30 very difficult names of dinosaurs in a puzzle. There is a word bank provided for this student made puzzle.
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Every Day Edit - A Dino Named "Sue"
For this everyday editing instructional activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the largest dinosaur skeleton ever found. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling.
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Dinosaur Acrostic Poem
In this writing poetry worksheet, students explore acrostic poems. Students write an acrostic poem by using the eight letters in the word "dinosaur" to describe a dinosaur.
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Dinosaur Reading Comprehension #2
In this science and reading worksheet, pupils read 4 short paragraphs, each describing a particular dinosaur. Students answer 3 questions after each paragraph, then look up and define 3 words.