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Dinosaurs: Everything You Need

Guide students through their study of dinosaurs with these articles, lesson plans, online learning activities, and writing assignments.

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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.

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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.

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Dinosaur Books

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

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Articles

If Dinosaurs Were Alive Today

Grades: 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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Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities

Build a Dinosaur: A Dinosaurs! Activity

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Students get acquainted with dinosaur anatomy while assembling dinosaurs from parts that scientists have found on a virtual “dig.”

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Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities

Real or Make-Believe? A Dinosaurs! Activity

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Is it a real dinosaur or is it make-believe? Scholastic poses nine dinosaur-related questions to students and challenges them to answer correctly.

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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.

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Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities

Dino Don's Dinosaur Quiz: A Dinosaurs! Activity

Grades: 3–5

Students can find out how “dinosaur smart” they are with this 10-question multiple-choice quiz, hosted by dino expert Don Lessem.

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Articles

Ancient Clues Uncovered

Grades: 3–5

Scientists from the United States and Mongolia uncovered hundreds of ancient skeletons in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. Some of the bones belonged to...

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Online Learning Activities

Dinosaur Picture Book: A Dinosaurs! Activity

Grades: 3–5

Students meet Brian Selznick, the talented illustrator whose book brings dinosaurs — and the first person ever to draw them — back to life!

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Articles

Dinosaur

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Provides detailed information on dinosaur history and classification.

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Articles

Fossil Record

Grades: 6–8, 9–12

Discusses the history, discovery and classification of fossils through out the Earth's evolution.

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Articles, Book Resources

Cretaceous Period

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Discusses the dinosaurs that lived during the Cretaceous Period, as well as the geological events that took place preceding that time.

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Articles

Protoceratops

Grades: 3–5

Introduces the oldest horned dinosaur group, Protoceratops.

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Articles

Dinosaurs: General Information

Grades: 3–5

Dinosaur experts answer some tough questions from students.

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Articles

Apatosaurus

Grades: 3–5

Covers the plant-eating Apatosaurus dinosaur of the Late Jurassic Period.

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Articles

Diplodocus

Grades: 3–5

Shares basic information about the size, physical features, and eating habits of a diplodocus dinosaur.

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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...

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Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities

Dinosaur Write: A Dinosaurs! Activity

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8

Instead of writing a report on dinosaurs, Scholastic challenges students to write something unexpected, like a poem, mystery, or biography.

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Articles

Fantastic Finds Timeline

Grades: 6–8

Trace historic discoveries that helped us build our knowledge about dinosaurs.

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Frozen In Time

Grades: 6–8

On an ice-shattered mountain at the very bottom of the world, in cold so strong it can freeze exposed skin in a matter of seconds, a small party...

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Articles

Digging Up Fossils

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

Find out how paleontologists do their jobs.

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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.

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