Get your students excited about geology with lessons and printables about dinosaurs. Delve into this fascinating prehistoric world to learn all about these large, extinct reptiles from the Mesozoic era. References will provide your students with interesting facts about the Stegosaurus, T-Rex, and Triceratops. You'll also find drawing activities and lessons for math and social studies to incorporate dinosaur activities across your curriculum.
Whiteboard Compatible Mini-Lessons
Use our slideshows to introduce new learning or enhance current learning about dinosaurs. Included are printables with lessons, objectives, and reinforcing extension activities.Digital Books
Our collection of Digital Books on dinosaurs will help you engage your students and enhance learning, whether you are introducing the subject or continuing with current lessons.Printable Worksheets & Activities
Choose from our cross-curricular printables to increase students' knowledge. Students classify information, measure, and practice reading comprehension and writing skills in these activities.- Vertebrate and Invertebrate Animals
- Measure Me!
- Writing a Group Research Report (Gr. 2)
- Paper Plate Dinosaur
- T. Rex Pop-Up Activity
- Make a Dinosaur
- Science Reading Warm-Up: Fossils
- More Dinosaur Printables
Dinosaurs & Math
Keep math fun with these printables including practicing counting dot-to-dot pages, walking the length of a dinosaur, and using division and mental math.- Dinosaurs Dot-to-Dot (1-20)
- Great, Big Enormous Animals
- Mixed Tables: Dinosaur Division
- Math in Science: Scaly Models
- Reading Numbers Dot-to-Dot
- Mixed Tables: Dinosaur Division
Dinosaurs & Social Studies
Use these activities to incorporate social studies into your dinosaur lessons to expand students' learning by practicing writing skills with short answers.Lesson Plans
Teach your students about dinosaurs with our lesson plan ideas. Students will stay engaged with activities such as making replicas of fossils in class and more.- Dinosaur Unit
- Plant Eaters and Meat Eaters
- Making Fossils
- Dinosaur Detectives
- Great, Big Enormous Animals
References
Our references about dinosaurs are great choices when planning your lessons. Information is updated when new discoveries are made, so your lessons will always be current.Dinosaurs & Art
Incorporate art into your dinosaur lessons with activities such as dinosaur cubes, assembling a dinosaur puzzle, and drawing and coloring sheets after reading the book provided.- T. Rex Pop-Up Activity
- Science and Art: Dino Cubes
- Ralph Masiello's Dinosaur Drawing Book Coloring Page
- Put It Together: A Puzzle
- Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp Activity Kit
- Triceratops
- Animal Web of Life
- More Dinosaur Art Activities
Fossils
Choose from these activities about fossils to extend students' learning. Activities include learning vocabulary terms and working in pairs to make sentences using the terms, along with a reading passage containing questions and word problems.- All About Fossils
- Fossil Layers
- Plate Tectonics Test
- Making Fossils
- Introducing Dinosaurs Word Power
- Activity: Radioactive Dating
- Making Model Fossils
- More Resources on Fossils
Dinosaurs & Literature
Use literature to extend students' learning about dinosaurs and enhance your lesson plans with activities such as writing dinosaur poetry, and practicing critical thinking skills. Teaching guides are included.- Dinosaur Poetry
- Poke & Look Learning Books
- Are There Living Dinosaurs?
- Kingfisher Young Knowledge: Rocks and Fossils Teacher's Guide
- Encyclopedia Prehistorica Teacher's Guide
- More Literature Activities on Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs & Language Arts
Writing a journal or paragraph and creating flash cards about dinosaurs will keep your students engaged and are among the activities included in these teaching resources.- Writing about Dinosaurs
- Poke & Look Learning Books
- Dinosaur Bookmarks
- Dinosaurs: Patterned Writing
- Dinosaur Fingertip Facts
- More Language Arts Activities on Dinosaurs
