Dinosaur Defenses

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Spring Plants Choice Board for Elementary Grades

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Earth Day STEM Choice Board for Elementary Grades

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National Poetry Month Themed Packet for Elementary

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Dinosaurs Venn Diagram

Students make a Venn diagram to classify different types of dinosaurs.

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Dinosaur Classification

Students read dinosaur descriptions with clues to help classify dinosaur species into their subgroups.

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Dinosaur Names

Students learn how dinosaur names are related to their physical characteristics.

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Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?

Feathered fossil fascinates scientistsThe recent discovery of a fossil of a feathered bird-like creature the size of a c...

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75-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Voice Heard Again

A team of computer scientists and paleontologists from Sandia National Laboratories and the New Mexico Museum of Natural...

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Classification of Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs (“terrible lizards”) belong to a large group of reptiles called Archosauria (“ruling reptiles”).

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