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Where Are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the concept of extinction by studying dinosaurs. In this extinction instructional activity, students watch dinosaur video clips or complete a puppet finger play about dinosaurs. Students may then complete a dinosaur...
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Dinosaurs 1: Where are the Dinosaurs?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate world history by creating a diorama in class. For this dinosaur extinction lesson, students read assigned text discussing the time frame of the dinosaurs residence on Earth and their eventual demise. Students...
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The Extinction of Dinosaurs

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students study the life and death of the dinosaur by building dioramas. For this dinosaur lesson, students research the extinct creatures, then build dinosaur dioramas. Afterward, the students engage in a discussion about the extinction...
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Dinosaur Party

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners explore dinosaurs.  In this dinosaurs lesson, students view a PowerPoint presentation and write 2 or 3 facts about their favorite dinosaur.  Learners sculpt a figure of this dinosaur using modeling clay.  Students...
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Facts about Dinosaurs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders write a report about dinosaur from a web site and then used Kidspiration.
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How Many Dinosaurs?

For Students K - 2nd
Students look at 8 pictures of dinosaurs, count how many dinosaurs are in each picture, and circle their answers. A good, basic counting and number writing practice activity.
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Two Dinosaurs

For Students K - 2nd
In this two dinosaurs worksheet, students observe and spot the differences between two dinosaurs and circle each one they can find.
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Dinosaur Traces

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students identify and interpret the type of evidence found at a typical dinosaur dig and mimic a paleontologist by taking crayon rubbings of simulated bone impressions. After the rubbings are taken, the students reconstruct the complete...
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Dino-Friends

For Teachers K - 1st
Students learn about dinosaurs. In this dinosaur instructional activity, 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....
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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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LESSON PLANS (print version) pdf What is a Fossil?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars 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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Investigation 3 - Examining Your Fossil

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the fossils they made previously. They examine the details of the fossil with a hand lens and come up with conclusions about the fossils. They record what they see and draw conclusions about the environment of the...
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Which Does Not Belong?

For Students Pre-K - K
In this identifying the picture that is different instructional activity, students observe four pictures of dinosaurs, and circle the one that is not like the other three. Students choose 1 answer.
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Sonoran Desert ABC's

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders make alphabet cards that depict the wide variety of life forms found in the Sonoran Desert. A terrific lesson that combines language arts, visual arts, and life science all into one wonderful package. Each of the cards has...
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The Stuff of Stories: Using Museums to Inspire Student Writing

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Middle schoolers write descriptions, narratives, and dialogues based on objects of art and time periods in a museum. They base several writing assignments on art objects and paintings, including a literal description and an emotional...
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Today is Monday - Calendar Math

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice memorizing the seven days of the week and keeping them in order.  In this calendar lesson, students read aloud the book Today is Monday by Eric Carle, and create their own calendar style book using educational...
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Teaching the Class about Community Helpers

For Teachers K
Students use the computer to research information about community workers on the Internet. In this technology lesson, students pretend they are the teacher and that they have to share what they know about the community member chosen....
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Going Home...?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this going home worksheet, students brainstorm as many ways as they can to say good-bye to someone and set the ways they come up with to a melody.