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Dinosaur Names
http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl/pdf/dino_04_names.pdf
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In this classroom activity young students explore the meanings behind dinosaurs' names. It opens with background information for teachers about the Greek and Latin roots of dinosaur names. After discussing what they know about dinosaurs, students learn that dinosaur names can describe what the dinosaur looked like, how it might have acted, or where it was found. Working as a class, students use a chart of root words and their meanings to decipher the names of four well-known dinosaurs.
Intended for grade levels:
  • Primary (K-2)
  • Intermediate (3-5)
Type of resource:
  • For the classroom:
    • Classroom activity
Subject:
  • Geological Sciences:
    • Paleontology
Technical requirements:
Adobe Acrobat reader
Cost / Copyright:
No cost
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DLESE Catalog ID: DLESE-000-000-008-188
Educational standards:
  • National Science Education Standards (NSES):
    • K-4:
      • Unifying concepts and processes:
        • Systems, order, and organization
      • A - Science as inquiry:
        • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
      • C - Life science:
        • Characteristics of organisms
Resource contact / Creator / Publisher:
Publisher: American Museum of Natural History