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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
Lesson 4: Types of Dinosaurs
Lesson 5: Meat and Plant Eaters
-Dinosaur Teeth
-Name Matching
Lesson 6: The Dinosaur's Life Cycle
Lesson 7: Nature and Change
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Dinosaurs - Lesson 5: Meat and Plant Eaters
ACTIVITY: Name Matching

Objective
The students form a chain of linking cubes - one link for each letter of a dinosaur word and/or the student's name - to compare the length of different words.

*********
Carnivore

*********
Herbivore

pteranodonone
*************

iguanodon
*********
four longer
stegosaurus
***********
tyrannosaurus
*************
two longer
diplodocus
**********

triceratops
***********
one longer
reptile
*******

fossil
******
one longer
claw
****

horn
****
same

and other comparisons

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