Dinosaurs – Page 4 – Let's Learn All About It!

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	In Julie Middleton’s Are the Dinosaurs Dead, Dad? (Peachtree Press, 2013), Dave and his dad are visiting the natural history museum where – whenever Dad’s back is turned – the dinosaurs come alive. With clever and funny illustrations by Russell Ayto. For ages 4-8.
	James Lawrence Powell’s Night Comes to the Cretaceous (W.H. Freeman, 1998) is an account of Luis and Walter Alvarez’s theory that a meteoroid or comet impact brought on the death of the dinosaurs. For teenagers and adults.
	Jack Horner and James Gorman’s How to Build a Dinosaur (Dutton, 2009) – subtitled “Extinction Doesn’t Have to Be Forever” – suggests that it might be possible to build a dinosaur by reverse engineering starting with chicken DNA. For teenagers and adults.
	Save the dinosaurs? See Extinction, a dinosaur survival game for 2-5 players ages 8 and up..

	Paul Stickland’s Ten Terrible Dinosaurs (Puffin, 2000) is a dinosaur countdown book as ten – then nine, then eight – rambunctious dinosaurs push, shove, dance, stomp, and throw tomatoes until finally just one (napping) dinosaur is left. For ages 3-5.
	Bernard Most’s How Big Were the Dinosaurs? (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1995) puts dinosaur size in perspective, using a lot of kid-friendly analogies: A T. rex’s tooth was as long as your toothbrush; a Triceratops head was too big to fit through your front door; a Diplodocus was as long as a basketball court. Included is a cool fold-out. For ages 4-8.
	How Big Was That Dinosaur? is a math activity printout and chart from Enchanted Learning, in which dinosaur sizes are computed in terms of cars, school buses, and human adults.
	In Stuart J. Murphy’s Dinosaur Deals (HarperCollins, 2001) – a MathStart book – Mike and Andy go to a Dinosaur Card Trading Fair. The book deals with the concept of equivalency as the kids trade cards worth varying point values; also included is a scattering of dinosaur facts. For ages 6-9.
	From Making Learning Fun, Math Ideas for a Dinosaur Theme has printable pattern cards, missing number cards, counting cards, a roll-and-color addition game, and more, all with dinosaurs.
	Problem of the Month: Digging Dinosaurs is math challenge with a dinosaur theme, presented at five different levels (variously appropriate for kindergarteners through high-school students).

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