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Learning about Fossils

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explain the difficulty that paleontologists have in assembling fossil bones. Hard cookies are used to simulate dinosaur bones/fossils. They research the Apatosaurus and discuss paleontology.
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No bones About It -A Mosasaur

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Students model a paleontologist's activities. They identify dinosaur bones and reassemble them into a skeleton of an extinct reptile.
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What is the Nature of Science?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine videos of field researach to discover the components of the scientific process. Using forms, they conduct community surveys about the nature of science. They research the extinction of dinosaurs and compare...
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Dream Book Collage

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners discuss dreams and they types of dreams they have. They read the book "Dinosaur Dream" by Dennis Nolan and discuss the characters and events in the book. They look up vocabulary words and create a collage utilizing as many...
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Fossils

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pupils act as paleontologists to discover who a mystery guest to the classroom was. They do not know the identity of the guest but infer the identity from items left behind in the classroom. They make inferences from dinosaur fossils.
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Discovering Dinosaurs: Planning your Summer Vacation

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Pupils use the online Atlas of Canada to gather information about places in Canada.
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9-10 Dragons and Dinosaurs Flashcards

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood education number flashcards worksheet, students cut apart the flashcards that feature the numbers 9-10 in order to use them for study.
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Dinosaur Addition

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this math with counters worksheet, students use their math skills to solve the 3 problems that require them to add with 1 digit numbers.
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Free Subtract Dinosaur Worksheet

For Students K - 1st
In this subtraction practice worksheet, students solve 3 problems that require them to subtract 1-digit numbers using math counters.
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Tucson Children's Museum Dino Crossword

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this crossword puzzle, middle schoolers complete a crossword puzzle related to dinosaurs, the era in which dinosaurs lived, and about other animals that lived during that time period.
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American Museum of Natural History

Being a Paleontologist: Mark Norell

For Students 6th - 12th
Get to know paleontologist Mark Norell with a 19 question interview. Written questions, answers, and photographs with descriptions sit among bright and cheery graphics
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Interactive
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

EarthViewer

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Almost complete annihilation of the plants and animals on the Earth has occurred at least five times in the past. Young scientists explore each of these events. They learn about the evidence and conclusions for each event and connect...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Weighing the Evidence for a Mass Extinction Part 2: On Land

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
What can fossils tell us about periods of extinction? Young scholars interpret fossil layers to make conclusions about changes in life during different geological time periods. They analyze the fossils for abundance and diversity as well...
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Jump, Glide, or Fly? Exploring Bird Evolution

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
How have birds evolved from prehistoric animals? With the three-part instructional activity, small groups first research different prehistoric animals and determine whether they are birds. Then, scholars explore different bird...
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Mr. Nussbaum

Tyrannosaurus Rex

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Challenge scholars to read an informational text and answer 10 multiple-choice questions. The interactive's topic is the Tyrannosaurus Rex. 
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Tyrannosaurus

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
For this dinosaur worksheet, students read 10 facts about a tyrannosaurus. Students also examine a picture that illustrates the size of a tyrannosaurus compared to a person.
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Study of Fossils

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders dig for fossils. In this fossil lesson, 5th graders read about the oldest found fossils and discuss the process of fossilization. They dig for their own fossils in a fossil box made of several dirt layers. 
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I Have a Bone To Pick With You

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore fossils and how they are found by paleontologists.
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Iguanodon Maze

For Students 4th - 7th
In this mazes worksheet, students determine through a delicate maze to help the Iguanodon dinosaur escape the marauding pack of Deinonychus dinosaur.
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Fossil Adventure

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a book about the process of a dinosaur becoming a fossil.  In this earth science instructional activity, students are taught about fossils and create a book that tells what happened to a dinosaur's bones after they die.
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LESSON PLANS (print version) pdf What is a Fossil?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students can better explain how mould and cast fossils occur when they make their own cast fossils using plaster of Paris and objects such as shells, bone or even their own hand or footprint.
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Dino Fossils

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Primary paleontologists discover the information they can gather from examining fossils. They place pictures in the correct sequence showing how an animal becomes a fossil. They discuss which sediments would preserve fossils better as well.
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The Reptiles

For Students 5th - 8th
In this reptiles worksheet, students match 9 terms from a word list to the statement that it completes. Then students write 1 short paragraph about how they feel about reptiles.
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Number 1

For Students Pre-K - K
In this math learning exercise, students decorate the number one. Students also color in a cartoon dinosaur.

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