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Roar with the dinosaurs!  Discover how dinosaurs lived long ago, how they were discovered and where their fossils can be found today. Learn the answers to these questions here, or visit our Discovery Center in the Children’s and Parents Services Department of our Community Library.

Dinosaur Web sites

Dinorama: Peer into the past for glimpses of ancient creatures that still intrigue us today.

Dinosaur Guide: Visit “Dinosaur Planet”, “Walk with Dinosaurs”, discover “When Dinosaurs Roamed America” and check out the “T-Rex gallery,” all on the Dinosaur Guide on the Discovery Channel Online.

Dinosaur Playground: Play dinosaur games, check out dinosaur jokes, do a dinosaur puzzle and view cool dinosaur pictures.

Discovering Dinosaurs: Extinct for 66 million years, dinosaurs have changed a lot in the last 150 years since they were discovered.  Find out how.

Dinosaur Eggs: Hunt for dinosaur eggs around the world. Hatch them to see how embryos are exposed by researchers. See a model of how the embryos might have looked. And visit the museum corner to learn more about dinosaur babies and parents.

Zoom Dinosaurs: A comprehensive on-line hypertext book about dinosaurs. It has an easy-to-use structure that allows readers to start at a basic level on each topic, and then to progress to much more advanced information as desired, simply by clicking on links. 

Dinofun: Great games, information and links all for the young dinosaur lover. 

DinoDictionary:
Hunt dinosaurs from A to Z on DinoDictionary.

Dinosaurs in Their World: Dinosaurs in Their World:  Visit the Paleolab created by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History to learn more about fossils and dinosaurs.



Activities

Raptor Crossword
http://www.abcteach.com/Dinosaurs/raptor.htm

Dinosaur Unscramble
http://www.abcteach.com/Dinosaurs/dinounscramble.htm

Dinosaur Word Search Puzzle
http://www.kidsdomain.com/brain/dino/word/wordmes.pdf

Dinosaur Crossword Puzzle
http://www.kidsdomain.com/brain/dino/word/crosshard2.pdf

Picture Books


Barton, B.
Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs

Blumenthal,N.
Count-a-saurus

Camp,L.
Dinosaurs at the Supermarket

Carrick,C.
Patrick’s Dinosaurs

Donnelly, L.
Dinosaur Valentine


Gurney, J. 
Dinosaur Train

Hartmann, W.
The
Dinosaurs are Back and its all your fault Edward!

Yolen,J.
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?

Fiction

Bunting, E.
The Day of the Dinosaur

Carusone, A.
The Boy with Dinosaur Hands


Ciencin, S. 
Dinotopia Series

Osborne, M. 
Dinosaurs Before Dark

Ritthaler, S.
Dinosaurs Alive!

Non-Fiction


Benton, M.
Awesome Dinosaurs

Benton, M.
Dinosaur and other Prehistoric Animal Fact Finder

Cole, J.
The Magic School Bus:  In the Time of the Dinosaurs

Dixon, D.
Be a Dinosaur Detective

Walsh, P.
Dinosaurs (How to Draw)

 


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