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Table of Contents
Lesson Overview
Teacher Background Information
Lesson Focus
Objective Grid
Lesson 1: Long Ago
Lesson 2: Extinction
Lesson 3: Fossils
-Two Legs or Four Legs
-Fossil Prints
-Fossil Hunting Lesson
-Fossil Matching
Lesson 4: Types of Dinosaurs
Lesson 5: Meat and Plant Eaters
Lesson 6: The Dinosaur's Life Cycle
Lesson 7: Nature and Change
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Dinosaurs - Lesson 3: Fossils
ACTIVITY: Fossil Matching

Objective
The students will collect pictures of dinosaur skeletons and their correlating fleshed-out versions. Students will then label each dinosaur picture with the dinosaur's appropriate name. The teacher will provide a wide variety of dinosaur shapes and names for the students to choose from when labeling.


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