Thematic Units/Lesson Plans

Great Internet Resources

Fossils

Archeology dig
To give a classroom experience of how difficult it is to interpret an archeological discovery while being in a classroom environment. We will use wooden models of selected dinosaurs to demonstrate a procedure a field archeologist may use.

Dinosaurs
Practice developmental skills with dinosaur lesson (K-2)

Fossil imprints with clay (1-2)
The purpose of this activity is to teach the
children how fossils help us learn about the Earth's past.

Digging Up Dinosaur Bones
With every new dinosaur dig, scientists learn more about dinosaurs and the way they lived here on Earth. Your Job: You must discover everything you can about the dinosaur that your group has been given

Dinosaur
Several experiments

Dinosaurs Unit
In this Optional Unit students investigate a variety of animals that lived long ago. They examine some of the ways in which evidence supporting the existence of dinosaurs is obtained.

Mini-Unit Topic: Dinosaurs
Part of the year long project..good integrated unit.

Prehistoric Animal Quest
Get ready for a big adventure -- a trip back in time to see the beginnings of dinosaurs! Then you will move forward through time to see different dinosaurs and how they lived.

Dinosaur Internet Resources/Dinosaur Internet Activities

Zoom Dinosaurs
Great site with tons of info and stuff for kids  

[The] Dinosauria
There's lot of information about dinosaurs at this University of California Museum of Paleontology site. In addition, be sure to check out there links to other dinosaur sites. Their meta-list of links is organized into six categories: Dinosaur-Oriented Web Sites, Dinosaurs and Other Aspects of Paleontology, Dinosaurs In Museums, Dinosaur-Related Organizations and Institutions, Dinosaur Art and Models, and Not Really Dinosaurs, But Worthy of Mention.

Dinosauria Online
Information on dinosaurs and their excavation, evolution, fossilization, paleontology, and much more.

Dinosaur Illustrations
Here's a set of links to "the best illustrations of dinosaurs that have been posted on the Internet." There are over 50 types of dinosaurs represented on the list.

Art of Tyrannosaurus
Dinosaurs return to life in children's artwork! View the winning artwork in the dinosaur-drawing contest.

Curse of T. rex
From NOVA Online.

Dinosauria On-Line
Dino stuff from A to Z, including journals, models and links.

Hadrosaurus
See where the first dinosaur skeleton was found.

Honolulu Community College Dinosaurs

Overview of Dinosaur Tracking
Learn all kinds of stuff about dinosaur tracks and become a dinosaur tracker!

Download -a- Dinosaur
Have fun with art and science in these paper-folding dinosaur activities!

K D Icon Mania - Dinosaur Page
Download icons of cute little cartoon dinos or opt instead for a terrifying Tyrannosaur!

Club Theo Check out a fun activity page where kids can play games based on the "Theo the Dinosaur" CD-Rom.

Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Discovery Room Online - construct your own dinosaur and other activities.

Fossils

Fossils (K)- Lesson Plans on fossils for primary

Skullduggery - wonderful graphics of fossil replicas and monthly articles written by a dinosaur expert.