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Dino activities
By Bertie

The Discovery Center ..... Using a page I found in a Crayola Kids magazine, (but it wouldn't be hard to make up your own) I made outlines of several different dino bodies, tails, heads and legs. We ran them off in different
bright colors and had spikes, ridges, crests etc that the kids could add. They assembled their "newly discovered" dino on a mountainous, swampy, jungle or rocky background and then together we use a dictionary of greek/latin terms I found in a dino fact book for inventing a new name. I print the new name for them and the translation.

We also do a research center in small groups

with the librarian, where they record facts like a paleontologist ... size, food, habitat, description, interesting facts, and they get to illustrate their report by photocopying an illustration from their research book.

For the math center (first grade) we used dinosaur fruit snacks as measuring tools, so they measured each item on their worksheet (pencil, felt pen, reader, paper cup, shoe, friends hand) using first the dino snacks (wash hands before starting activity) then a ruler. When finished they get to eat the snacks.

For the writing center, they write a dino story in a 5 page booklet, which was pre-cut into a dino shape with a cover made with the wonderful dino-skin paper available at the teachers store. (made by Royer I think)

For the final center we put all our dinosaur puzzles, rub ons, models and tracers, together and called it the paleontology center, because they were putting dinos together.