Last minute DINOSAUR resources for summer learning!
By: Dr. Eric Berling
Below you can find access to Dr. B’s Dino Drive, full of fun printable dinosaur goodies for summer learning. Scroll down further to find more resources from the Michigan State University Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences!
Dr. B’s Dino Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qg6mIy2BNgtd4VeuGcJZo3Zccvlu3oVW?usp=drive_link
Contents:
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Dino Timeline (printable Mesozoic Timeline over 15ft long, each inch = 1 Million Years)
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Can be mounted as a passive display/decoration or patrons can help actively build the timeline (helping measure and correctly place the various dinosaurs onto the timeline)
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Humbling showcase of geological timespans
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Disrupt misconceptions about dinosaurs (most never ever met each other… triceratops lived chronologically closer to us and the cellphone than to stegosaurs and most other kinds of dinosaurs)
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What is a Dinosaur? (printable sorting activity on a reptile cladogram)
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Colloquially, many things we call dinosaurs were not, in a biological sense, dinosaurs at all but rather non-dinosaur prehistoric reptiles (think every flying pterosaur and every flippered prehistoric marine reptile)
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Birds are dinosaurs (in the taxonomical and biological sense)
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A great scaffold for talking about evolution and evolutionary relationships (birds are more closely related to long-necked dinosaurs than pterosaurs or bats)
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Life-Sized Dinosaur Footprints (subfolder)
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Printable Life-Sized Footprint Templates (print on 8.5×11 paper for grid-assembly)
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includes Camarasaurus, T-Rex, Triceratops, Velociraptor, and Archaeopteryx
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Printable informational signage for each footprint model
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University of Michigan Resources:
Check out these amazingly detailed resource guides from the University of Michigan, focused on fossils, timescales, dinosaurs, and the people who do dinosaur science!
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