Introduction

The Task

You will learn about one dinosaur and the time period in which it lived. You will then work together with the other members of your class to design a Dinosaur Zoo.

The Process

1. Learn about the time of the dinosaurs.
a. Where in time did the dinosaurs live? 

Look at the picture of the staircase below. Each step shows millions of years in the age of the earth. 
 

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The bottom step is when the earth was very young. We live at the top of the yellow stair step. Dinosaurs lived 245 million years ago, where the green stair steps begin. The Age of Dinosaurs, the Mesozoic era, lasted for three green stair steps or for 185 million years. At the end of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago, dinosaurs suddenly died out and became extinct.

b. We learn about dinosaurs by digging up their bones. Click below to watch a clip about dinosaur fossils. Then use your Back button on your web browser to return to your webquest.

2.  Learn about one dinosaur. 
a. Click on your dinosaur’s name in the table below. 
b. Print out 2 copies of the information sheet on that dinosaur.

3. Answer questions about your dinosaur.
a. Print out the dinosaur question worksheet.

4. Make a stand-up model of your dinosaur. 
a. Take the second print-out of your dinosaur information sheet. 
b. Draw a stand on the bottom. See the example below.

crosspiece

5. a. Click here to learn about how the earth looked during the Mesozoic Era.
b. Click on the time when your dinosaur lived to find out about  the habitat for that time period.

• Triassic Period
• Jurassic Period
• Cretaceous Period

• Triassic Period
• Jurassic Period
• Cretaceous Period

7. Meet with construction crew foreman (your teacher) to discuss your group presentation and construction on the dinosaur zoo.

Evaluation
Evaluation Sheet

Conclusion

You've got another letter. Click on the dinosaur picture to read your mail!