By: Stephanie Vitale

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What is a Dinosaur?

• By Stephanie Vitale
• Prepared for second Grade Science lesson on
  Dinosaurs.

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What is a Dinosaur?

• Dinosaur
• A Prehistoric reptile
• Carnivores or herbivores
• Lived on earth 65-250 million years ago

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Herbivores

• Herbivores were plant eaters.
• Some were extremely large and some were very
  small.
• All were considered food to the meat eaters (the
  carnivores).

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Carnivores

• Carnivores were meat eaters.
• Some were extremely large and some were very
  small
• All would eat the Herbivores, some would kill
  them and eat and some would wait and eat the
  remains.

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Where the dinosaurs lived

• The dinosaurs lived in all types of areas.
• Open fields, edges of swamps, forest, lakes and
  even in the oceans.

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When did the dinosaurs get here and when did they
leave?

• The first dinosaurs appeared on earth about 250
  million years ago.
• The dinosaurs completely disappeared from the
  earth about 65 million years ago.
• There is no known reason why the dinosaurs all
  died out.

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What You Need To Do Now

• By clicking the button in the upper left hand
  side of the screen, this will take you to your
  activity sheet.
• Circle yes if correct
• Circle No if incorrect

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Is this a Dinosaur?
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Is this a Dinosaur?
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Is this a Carnivore?
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Is this an Herbivore?
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Is this a Carnivore?
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Is this an Herbivore?
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Could a Dinosaur live here?
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Could a Dinosaur live here?
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How well did you do?

• Time to check our answers

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Answers
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References

• Walking with the dinosaurs BBC Science News
  http//www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/fact_files/index.sh
  tml
• Science for the changing world USGS Government
  news http//pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dinosaurs/
• Dino Russs Lair Dinosaur vertebrete
  paleontology information http//www.isgs.uiuc.ed
  u/dinos/dinos_home.html
• Zoom Dinosaurs http//www.enchantedlearning.com/s
  ubjects/dinosaurs/
• Kinetosaurs Putting some teeth into art and
  science
• http//www.childrensmuseum.org/kinetosaur/e.html

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Worksheet