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Digging Up Dinosaurs

Language: English | Español

This book introduces readers to many types of dinosaurs whose skeletons and reconstructions are seen in museums, and explains how scientists uncover, preserve, and study fossils. LeVar goes on in the video to explore the fascination of dinosaurs that lived and then disappeared millions of years ago. Humor is interspersed in interviews with a ranger and a paleontologist who take LeVar on a fossil tour of Dinosaur National Monument.

Here are activities to do after watching this episode:

Dino Tic-Tac-Toe

Make some dinosaur “bones” and “fossils” from clay, and then use them to play a game.

You will need:
• clay
• sheet of posterboard
• markers or crayons

1. Use clay to mold five dinosaur bones and five small fossils with dinosaur footprints.
2. Draw and color a large dinosaur on posterboard.
3. On the dinosaur’s body, draw a tic-tac-toe board.
4. Use the bones and fossils as game pieces, rather than Xs and Os.
5. Play a game of tic-tac-toe.

Remember, each game that neither player wins, goes to the dinosaur!

 

Collections

It is fun to collect different things that we especially like. Rocks can make a wonderful collection. You can store them in a shoebox at first and take them out and look at them whenever you want to. You can build piles with them. You can paint them to make pets or paperweights. Rocks can be found on just about any outing that you may take, such as to a park, in the woods, along a shoreline. Try collecting something special for yourself. Then share your collection with a special friend.

Check out some of these books on your
next trip to the library:

  • Dinosaur Time by Peggy Parish
  • If You Are A Hunter Of Fossils by Byrd Baylor
  • Dinosaurs! A Drawing Book by Michael Emberley
  • Tyrannosaurus Wrecks: A Book of Dinosaur Riddles by Noelle Sterne

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