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The Dinosaur Museum

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Dinosaur Museum is located in Blanding, Utah. Use this site to learn all about the exhibits and dinosaur information.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Paleontology: The Big Dig

For Students 3rd - 8th
On this site, you will learn all about Paleontology, the study of ancient life. It defines paleontology and provides links to games, stories, videos, and hands-on activities.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: What's the Big Idea? Paleontology

For Students 3rd - 8th
Snapshot reference on paleontology explains how the fossil record drives this area of science.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Dinosaurs!

For Students 3rd - 8th
Scholastic provides a learning site about dinosaurs that features information and facts, games, activities, and much more. There is also a teacher's guide that provides numerous ideas for dinosaur lesson plans.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Building a Dinosaur From a Chicken

For Students 9th - 10th
Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Dinosaur Detectives

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
For this lesson, learners conduct research on what paleontologists do when they study dinosaur fossils. They learn about some of the major paleontologists, what they discovered, and how opinions about fossils change over time as new...
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Tracking Dinosaurs

For Students 9th - 10th
Two activities that will help students learn how paleontologists are able to determine, based on fossil evidence, whether a particular dinosaur was walking or running when it left footprints behind.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Digging Up Dirt: How Paleontologists Bring Dinosaurs Back to Life

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Teachers can download this teaching package that introduces students to the science of paleontology. Fossil formulation and details about the work of paleontologists are discussed. Find out how paleontologists discover, stabilize, and...
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Other

Tramline: Dinosaurs: A Prehistoric Adventure for Grades 2 5

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Travel across the Internet to learn about dinosaurs in this virtual field trip. The trip is designed for Grades Two to Five. Topics include dinosaur fossils, extinction, paleontology, anatomy, behavior, etc.
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University of Bristol: What Were the Dinosaurs, and How Did They Live?

For Students 9th - 10th
Answers to a series of nine questions related to dinosaurs. There are a number of links to other informative sites as well.
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University of California

Ucmp: Are Birds Really Dinosaurs?

For Students 9th - 10th
A great essay that illustrates how science is done as well as the relationship between dinosaurs and modern birds. Includes a picture to illustrate this concept, and contains many links to related sites.
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University of California

Ucmp: Dino Facts a Unit on Dinosaur Behavior

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this unit, learners look at what is known about three dinosaurs - Maiasaura, Troodon and Orodromeus - and learn how paleontologists develop hypotheses about their behavior.
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Canal Kids: Dinossauros (Dinosaurs), a Era Dos Gigantes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A good introduction to dinosaurs for young Portuguese-speaking children. Uses an engaging writing style, cartoon-style graphics, and animation to teach about the Mesozoic era. Coverage includes types of dinosaurs and their features,...
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University of California

Ucmp: Name a Dinosaur Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This article shows how scientists put together the scientific names of dinosaurs using Greek and Latin roots.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Geo Logic: The Three Stooges and Their Pet Dinosaurs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With GEOLogic puzzles, students are asked to match each of the Three Stooges with their favorite group and species of dinosaur based on clues given from different perspectives.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Ferocious Predatory Dinosaurs of Cretaceous Sahara

For Students 9th - 10th
Nizar Ibrahim uses paleontological and geological data to reconstruct the 'River of Giants' in north Africa in surprising detail.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Paleont O Logy: The Big Dig

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This colorful and inviting resource houses tons of paleontology activities to explore. Play the Layers of Time puzzle game, create your own make-believe dig site by burying chicken bones in plaster of Paris, learn how to draw dinosaurs,...
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University of California

Ucmp: The Dinosauria

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Dinosauria provides the latest information about dinosaurs, including debunking myths, early dinosaur discoveries, characteristics of specific dinosaurs, life history, and discovery of dinosaur fossils.
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Burke Museum

Burke Museum: Paleontology

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of artifacts and information on Paleontology from the Burke Museum includes online exhibits and access to pictures from various collections.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries

For Students 9th - 10th
Visitors to this resource will discover the new things that scientists are learning about dinosaurs by paging through the information about this comprehensive exhibition.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Drawing Dinosaurs

For Students 3rd - 8th
A tutorial on how to draw a realistic dinosaur starting from a picture of a skeleton.
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University of California

Ucmp: Inferring the Possible Speed of Dinosaurs

For Students 9th - 10th
An essay detailing the evidence used to determine how quickly dinosaurs moved. Includes pictures of fossilized dinosaur tracks.
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Other

Prehistoric Planet: Robert T. Bakker: Legend of Paleontology

For Students 3rd - 8th
Robert T. Bakker is a paleontologist from Wyoming, known for his enthusiastic approach to understanding the behavior and lives of dinosaurs. He has propounded many controversial ideas about dinosaurs, some of which are described here.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Utah History Encyclopedia: Dinosaurs of Utah

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn why Utah is known as a prime location for the discovery of dinosaur fossils and why, in 1988 the Allosaurus was named Utah's official state fossil.