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Dinos!
By L.P.

I did a unit on this in student teaching too! You don't say what grade level but the activities I did with the kindergartners can be adapted. I started off with a KWL chart to see what they knew. Some kids thought dinos
ate fruit. Hmmm. We made fossil imprints (using plastic dinos) in stone dough. When dry, this clay looks like rock. We also dug for plastic dinos and dino eggs in our sand table as we learned about paleontologists. The dino eggs were plaster of paris with a tiny plastic dino inside. The kids loved digging them up and breaking them open with hammers. I used dinos in math (patterning)

by using t-rex and stegos in a pattern. We also sorted plastic dinos by type and made a dino counting book. For older kids you could use dino foot prints as a measuring tool. We also viewed "Magic Schoolbus: The Busasaurus" and my master teacher had some interactive educational c.d.s on dinosaurs that the kids liked too. And throughout the unit, we read every possible book we could find, fiction and non-fiction, on dinos. For my bulletin board, we made "stuffed" paper dinos and I headed it "Our Herd of Dinosaurs". Hope this helps! :o}