Curated OER
The Name Game
In this science instructional activity, students select 24 of the dinosaur names from the list and write them in the spaces on the bingo card. They match each of the dinosaurs listed to their correct description.
Other
Dinosaur Depot Museum: The Dinosaurs of Marsh and Cope [Pdf]
This booklet was written by Kenneth Carpenter from the Denver Museum of Natural History. It looks at the Jurassic dinosaurs that lived in Garden Park, Colorado. These included carnivorous dinosaurs, thunder lizards, Ornithopods, and...
Other
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science: Coelophysis
The Coelophysis is New Mexico's official state fossil. It lived in the late Triassic Period and has only been found in New Mexico. Popular questions about this dinosaur are answered here. In addition, there are numerous documents about...
Australian Museum
Australian Museum: Dinosaurs on the Attack
Scientists have theropods overcame their prey using their claws and teeth are described.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Pelecanimimus Polyodon O Logy Card
Flip this interactive card to start learning about Pelecanimimus polyodon. Answer multiple-choice and fact-or-fiction questions and review some fast facts about this theropod dinosaur.
BBC
Bbc: Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Several articles that trace the chronology of the dinosaur from the Triassic to the Cretaceous. Articles were written to accompany the BBC series, Walking with Dinosaurs.
Museums Victoria
Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Deinonychus Antirrhopus
Deinonychus antirrhopus was a small, carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous Period, first discovered in the United States. A study of its skeleton revealed that it was fast-moving, which went against previously held beliefs...
Museums Victoria
Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Gallimimus Bullatus
Gallimimus bullatus was a theropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous Period. Some information and pictures can be found here.
Museums Victoria
Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Tarbosaurus Bataar
Tarbosaurus bataar was a large, meat-eating theropod from the Late Cretaceous Period, discovered in Mongolia. Some information and pictures can be found here.
Australian Museum
Australian Museum: Meat Eating Dinosaurs
The different features of carnivorous dinosaurs' teeth and jaws that enabled them to cut through the flesh and bones of their prey are described.