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Science Friday

Fossil Detectives

For Students 6th - 8th
What can this rock be? Pupils pretend to be paleontologists by sketching fossils and making predictions about their types. To determine whether they can identify the type of dinosaur, class members compare their observations and...
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Heating and Cooling a Really Large Lizard

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Remind your middle school scientists how fox ear size varies depending on the climate they live in; large ears allow heat loss while small ears keep heat in. Discuss how a cold-blooded animal might try to regulate body temperature. Then...
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Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust

The Lost World

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Fans of Sherlock Holmes may be surprised to learn that in addition to stories of the famous deductionist, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is also the creator of Professor Challenger. An irascible, unpredictable scientist, Challenger was featured...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Using the Scientific Process to Study Human Evolution

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Did humans and dinosaurs coexist? How do we know? Scholars dig in to the tools and methods researchers used to study the process of human evolution by watching a slideshow with embedded video clips. Pupils learn the importance of asking...
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Dinosaur Crossword Puzzle

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this literacy worksheet, students find the spaces that fit each word that are related to the topic of dinosaurs. The words have no number to indicate where they fit.
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Listening/Reading Transfer - Guided Reading

For Teachers K - 5th
Work on predicting and making inferences with Danny and the Dinosaur by Syd Hoff. After every few pages, the teacher asks listeners to make predictions of what will happen next. Develop critical reading strategies with your young learners!
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Dino-Friends

For Teachers K - 1st
Students learn about dinosaurs. In this dinosaur lesson plan, students participate in an interactive read aloud of The Giant Book of Dinosaurs. They make play dough dinosaurs and write a dinosaur story about their sculpture. They dance...
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Extinction

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners explore reasons why the dinosaurs became extinct, and the specific needs (habitat, environment, food) of individual types of dinosaurs.
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Brachiosaurus

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this dinosaur worksheet, students read a short text about Brachiosaurus. Students answer 3 multiple choice questions and then color a picture of Brachiosaurus.
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Fossils 1: Fossils and Dinosaurs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explain what can be learned from fossils and in doing so, realize the difference between fact and theory (idea). They also gain a general understanding of how fossils are formed.
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Dinosaur KWL

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this dinosaur worksheet, learners complete a KWL chart for dinosaurs. Students must fill in the table for what they know, what they want to know, and what they have learned about dinosaurs.
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Where Are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore what the dinosaurs were like. In this dinosaur lesson, the teacher peaks student curiosity about dinosaurs. This lesson would be a great starting point for a dinosaur unit since it primarily engages student interest and...
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Adopt-A-Dinosaur Fact Sheet

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science worksheet, students complete the blank fact sheet by selecting a dinosaur of their choice. They name its family, size, location, time period found, foods ate, and some amazing facts about it.
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Dinosaur Crossword (Hard 2)

For Students 4th - 5th
In this dinosaur worksheet, students learn 20 vocabulary words and fit them into a crossword puzzle. This puzzle is difficult because there are no clues.
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Dinosaurs

For Teachers K - 5th
Students will develop goals for inquiry. They will also improve content area reading and research skills. The context of studying dinosaurs will help learners to distinguish from organisms that live presently and those from the past...
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Types of Dinosaurs

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students complete puzzles of dinosaurs. They compare each piece of the puzzle to a fossil and simulate a scientist's role in learning about dinosaurs.
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Dig This Dinosaur Relief Lesson

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create low-fire ceramic relief sculptures of dinosaur bones. They incorporate art history, aesthetics, and criticism with hands on activity. Students work together to draw an enlarged skeleton on butcher paper. The Stegosaurus...
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Dinosaur Counting 1-10

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this dinosaur counting 1-10 activity worksheet, learners count the dots on each of the 6 dinosaurs and identify the number represented by the dots.
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Dinosaur Connect the Dots

For Students K
In this dinosaur connect-the-dots worksheet, students practice their counting skills as they connect the dots by linking numbers 1-15.
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All About Tyrannosaurus

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this Tyrannosaurus Rex worksheet, students answer 7 fill in the blank questions where they provide facts about Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaurs.
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Triceratops Facts

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this Triceratops worksheet, students answer 6 multiple choice questions about the dinosaur Triceratops. Then students write a complete sentence where they describe what a Triceratops would do if it were attacked by a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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Printables
Teacher Printables

My Mini Book About …

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This is one of several printable pages on which little life scientists can write out their research on an assigned animal. The highlighted page is for alligator research, but several other animal pages are included as other materials....
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My Report Pack for. . .

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here is a handy guide for putting together a research report on birds, or on a selection of other topics (see the added materials.). Individuals are guided to think of three questions about their topic, they narrow down subtopics, use a...
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Dinosaur and DNA Days

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Biology stars extract DNA samples from beef thymus and then examine its properties. They use enzymes to digest the DNA samples, and then use electrophoresis to separate fragments. Finally, they discuss methods and principles of...

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