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Computer/Grammar: Dinosaurs
First graders practice computer skills while visiting a dinosaur Website. They write sentences there beginning with assigned letters, circle the beginning capital letter, and underline the ending punctuation.
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Dinosaur Days
Students investigate the age of dinosaurs while examining the characteristics of three kinds of dinosaurs. They examine plant eaters, meat eaters, and flying dinosaurs while determining how to classify things. They rotate through centers...
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Dinosaur Math
Pupils participate in an activity to discover patterns. They make cutouts of bones and decorate them in patterns. They work together in pairs and removes the number of bones they roll on the die. They also practice writing their numbers.
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Dino Hunt
Students use the Internet to gather information about dinosaurs. They practice navagating through the different websites. They also practice listening to directions and also explore how to fill out a KWL chart.
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Facts about Dinosaurs
Second graders write a report about dinosaur from a web site and then used Kidspiration.
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Dinosaurs - Creatures Of The Past
Young scholars use the internet to search for information and pictures of dinosaurs. They distinguish between meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs and explore theories about the extinction of dinosaurs.
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Digging Up Facts About Dinosaurs
Second graders conduct research on a given dinosaur using various resources, complete an information sheet that be used to create their graphic organizer from, and produce a graphic organizer, using the Kidspiration software.
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Dinosaurs
Students use educational software about different dinosaurs to determine what group of dinosaurs each belongs in.
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Dinosaur Groups
Students examine different dinosaurs and what groups they belong in. Educational software is used to guide the lesson.
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Estimation
Third graders gain an understanding of estimation as an educated guess. They explore measuring and how looking at various object size and shape can help form ones guess towards estimation. They use dinosaurs for an estimation activity.
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Dinosaur reports-4 blocks guided reading & focused writing (Elementary, 4 Blocks)
Students read books about dinosaurs for book club groups and then participate in focused writing. In this reading and writing activity, students work together over the course of three days to produce a group story about a dinosaur.
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Dinosaurs: "If I had a Dinosaur"
First graders analyze what it would be like to own a dinosaur. For this dinosaur writing lesson, 1st graders review knowledge and key terms about dinosaurs in order to complete a one paragraph creative writing assignment. Students...
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Books for Teaching Dinosaurs
Students investigate dinosaurs through books. In this lesson about dinosaurs, students read a variety of books about dinosaurs. Students become familiar with dinosaurs through reading about them. Students learn that reading is...
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Making Tracks
Fifth graders examine the fossil footprints of two and four legged dinosaurs. Using this information, they try to determine how the dinosaurs lived their lives. They use their own walking pattern to compare it to the dinosaurs and...
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Making Tracks
Students participate in groups to show how two legged and four legged dinosaurs walked. Using fossilized footprints, they identify the two and four legged dinosaurs shown. They use the internet to determine what happen by a specific...
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Dinosaur Research
Second graders research a selected dinosaur. They hand write a paragraph about the dinosaur, describing at least one amazing fact. Students use HyperStudio software to transfer their paragraph into a multimedia presentation.
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Time Train
Students are read a short book "Time Train" by Paul Fleischman. Using the text, they identify the clues to let them know the train is traveling back in time. They make a time line of the trip and make a cutout of meat-eating and...
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What Killed the Dinosaurs?
Learners demonstrate how scientists use evidence to formulate hypotheses. They write an essay describing the Cretaceous and Paleocene time periods from the point of view of someone living in that time. In addition, they formulate...
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The Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved!
Students explore a Biblical world view of humanistic history. They compare and contrast Biblical and evolutionary assumptions. Students discuss the difference between a Christian world view and a secular world view.
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Dinosaur History (Part 1)
Students explore and interpret scientific data through a Biblical world view. They discuss scientific dating methods of dinosaur bones. Students compare and contrast Biblical and evolutionary views.
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Understanding Tyrannosaurus Rex
Students explore the history of the Tyrannosaurus Rex according to the Bible. Students research the size of the Tyrannosaurus Rex. They discuss the T. Rex skeleton "Sue" and the controversy that surrounded it.
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Dinosaur History (Part 2)
Students read the scripture that cooresponds to the lesson. Using the text, they examine the history of the dinosaur and how they were discovered. They ask quesitons and participate in a class discussion to end the lesson.
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Dragons: Dinosaurs in History?
Students read the scripture that cooresponds with this instructional activity on dinosaurs. Using the text, they identify where dragons are mentioned and determine if they match the description of what we would call a dinosaur. They...
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Dinosaur History (Part 3)
Young scholars read the scripture that corresponds with this lesson on dinosaurs. Using the text, they try to determine the diet of humans and animals at the beginning of creation. They use the Internet to research animals with sharp...