Teaching Themes
Dinosaurs: Everything You Need
Guide students through their study of dinosaurs with these articles, lesson plans, online learning activities, and writing assignments.
Online Learning Activities
Dinosaur Times: A Dinosaurs! Activity
Grades: 3–5, 6–8
This interactive time line allows students to organize dinosaurs into appropriate time periods with help from clues, helping them better grasp of the age of dinosaurs.
Lesson Plans
CyberHunt: Digging for Dinosaurs
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8
Presents an answer guide to a Cyberhunt interactive reproducible on dinosaurs that lived during the Mesozoic Era.
Dinosaur Books
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
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 Online Learning Activities Dinosaurs!Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Scholastic offers young students a chance to study a favorite subject of theirs — dinosaurs — through several engaging online activities. |
Articles, Author's Notes, Authors and Illustrators The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins Illustrator's NoteGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Can you imagine a time when almost no one in the world knew what a dinosaur looked like? That was true in the mid-19th century, until a Victorian... |
 Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School BusasaurusGrades: 3–5 With these fun fossil crafts, you'll take your students back in time to the age of dinosaurs! |
Extension Activities, Book Resources Dinosaur Story Extension ActivitiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Extension activity for Dinosaur Story by Joanna Cole. |
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Activities and Games, Extension Activities What the Dinosaurs Saw Extension ActivitiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Extension activities for What the Dinosaurs Saw by Miriam Schlein. |
Articles Meet Dinosaur Expert Sue HendricksonGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Paleontologist and marine archaeologist Sue Hendrickson discovered the world's largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex in 1990. |
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Articles, Book Resources Books for Teaching DinosaursGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Teacher created book list includes tips for classroom use. |
Extension Activities Digging Up Ttyrannosaurus Rex Extension ActivitiesGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Extension activity for Digging Up Tyrannosaurus Rex by John R. Horner and Don Lessem. |
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Lesson Plans Dinosaur SkeletonsGrades: PreK–K Students learn about dinosaur bones by constructing models out of tongue depressors and tooth picks. |
Lesson Plans If You Meet a Dinosaur Book (Adapted from If You Meet a Dragon by Joy Cowley)Grades: PreK–K Allow students to engage in dramatic play and make their own books in this lesson on dinosaurs. |
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Extension Activities Digging for Dinosaurs!Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Go back to the Mesozoic era, or the “Age of Reptiles,” to find out more about dinosaurs. |
Dwelling With the DinosaursGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Use this lesson plan to start your dinosaur unit by introducing students to some of the different dinosaurs you'll be studying. Activities... |
An Interview with Jane Yolen & Mark Teague, Author and Illustrator of HOW DO DINOSAURS GO TO SCHOOL?Grades: An interview with author Jane Yolen & illustrator Mark Teague. The two talk about why they made How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?. They also... |
 Articles If Dinosaurs Were Alive TodayGrades: 1–2, 3–5 In this learning activity students are asked to imagine the world if dinosaurs were not extinct. Students are prompted to think about how humans... |
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Lesson Plans, Extension Activities, Writing Activities Dinosaurs Before Dark Lesson PlanGrades: 1–2, 3–5 Magic Tree House books take readers on magical journeys to the past where a pair of heroic siblings, Jack and Annie, display courage, confidence,... |
Lesson Plans, Extension Activities, Book Resources How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? Lesson PlanGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Students enjoy dinosaurs in general, and How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? easily lends itself to a graphing activity. Students enjoy rooting for... |
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Articles A Visit to the ArgentinosaurusGrades: 1–2, 3–5 Thirteen year old Rebecca Lessem files this report about her travels to the deserts of Argentina to see Argentinosaurus, the world's largest... |
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Articles Dinosaur Bones & FossilsGrades: 1–2, 3–5 How do scientists know if they've found a dinosaur bone? Scientists answer students'questions. |
