This is NOT a dinosaur
Not all fossils are dinosaurs. Not all animals that lived millions of years ago were dinosaurs. What makes a dinosaur a dinosaur? How can you distinguish them from other species?
Dinosaurs
Many children enjoy playing with dinosaur toys, reading stories about them and roaring and stomping like dinosaurs. Some become real dinosaur experts who have many questions. We have prepared some resources on how you can integrate these often fact-based questions into a meaningful inquiry-based STEM environment.
Our favourite 3: Dinosaurs
These books will support you in embracing the children’s fascination with dinosaurs and embed it in meaningful STEM learning experiences.
Sorting and classifying dinosaurs
Sorting and classifying are important STEM skills that children can train while finding out more about dinosaurs. How many different ways of sorting dinosaurs can you think of?
What to do with a dinosaur question
It is possible to take an inquiry-based approach to factual dinosaur questions. Hayley demonstrates how facts don’t have to end the questioning but rather start new conversations.
Dinosaurs: Facts vs process
Many children are interested in dinosaurs. Rather than just giving them facts, how can we integrate their questions into a meaningful inquiry-based learning environment?
Meg’s eggs
Out of three magical eggs hatch a diplodocus, a stegosaurus and a T-Rex. Find out how the witch Meg manages to avert disaster in this fun book.
Where the forest meets the sea
Experience the magical overlap of past, present and future in the collages depicting the ancient forest and deepen your connection with nature.
How do dinosaurs eat their food?
The retro-feel illustrations that offer many impulses for explorations, from design and technologies to different species’ diets.
Am I yours?
A strong wind separates an egg from its parents and the dinosaurs try to find out by process of elimination which species it belongs to.