Dinosaur Resources for Teachers

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.

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 & 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dinosaurs & Science

Explore our creative Dinosaurs and Science activities to increase students' learning. Includes a play about dinosaurs, a simulation activity describing what paleontologists do by using chocolate chip cookies, and a quiz to assess students' knowledge.