Engage your child with these fun dinosaur stem activities for kids! These dino stem activities will get your kids' brains working while still having fun.
This STEM resource goes with the NEW story "How to Catch A Dinosaur" by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton. Students will go through the STEM process to create a trap for a dinosaur! This product includes: -science standards alignment for K-2 -directions, materials, and rules (black and white and color options available) -STEM journal: The journal has different page options, so choose the ones that are the best fit for your kids! Pages include materials, design, team design, prediction, procedures, redesign ***NEWLY UPDATED to include half page versions if you're looking to save paper!
LitLinks: How a plunger on the butt of a chicken inspires an easy modeling lesson | S. K. Wenger | Chicken Frank, Dinosau!
Please note that this listing is a 10-page digital download (PDF file) to print the pages you require yourself. Learn the stages of fossilization with this folding ammonite craft. Ammonites were pre-historic sea creatures with tentacles and a spiral shell. Their fossils can be found all over the world in many different types of sedimentary rock including chalk, limestone, and sandstone. This hands-on activity is a fun alternative to a worksheet and is differentiated to use with different ages/abilities. There are 4 similar black and white templates to choose from for this printable activity: 1. Color the images, cut out and fold 2. Color the images, cut out the words and sequence them, glue the words in place, cut and fold. 3. As above but the pictures and words are sequenced together. 4. A larger version over 2 pages. When closed, you'll just see the large fossil ammonite but when opened, the fossilization process will be revealed! Instructions are provided (including a picture showing how to fold) as well as some questions and suggested answers for discussion. Please note that some of the instructions are written for a school setting but this activity is transferable to a home environment. A version with UK/AUS paper size (A4) and spelling is included alongside a US version (11x8.5 inches). This resource is a pdf and cannot be edited. Tips for printing: 1. Make sure you are printing in landscape 2. Save ink and just print the templates. Use a screen to display the instructions. What Etsy buyers are saying: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐This is exactly what I wanted for a sub while out on an extended leave. Excited to use all the differentiated versions this upcoming year when I am back in the classroom!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Very fun item; just what I was looking for to make homeschool lessons more interesting. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐So cute - differentiated - we also used the version where kids have to sort the stages as a mini formative assessment. Everything fits/lines up perfectly and we hung them up as a cute backdrop for our pumpkin science experiment. Love it!
The end of the school year is beyond hard. The kids are tired of school and so are we. So how do we keep the kids learning? How about a dinosaur unit? This isn't your typical dinosaur unit because the focus is on STEM projects. I integrated math, research, writing, and science. My kids had a blast! Here are the STEM projects that we did in our unit. When the kids arrived on Monday, I decorated my door so it looked like giant palm trees. When students entered the classroom, I had a thunderstorm soundtrack playing in the background. After the class was settled, I read a letter to them. It told the students that they were on the field trip of a lifetime. Together we were going to sail around the coast of Florida. While we were sailing, a huge storm came out of nowhere. The ship rocked back and forth (give lots of details to get the kids really involved.) The letter ends with the boat running ashore and the captain is missing. The ship has a giant hole and is slowly sinking. The class works together to get as many supplies as possible off of the ship before it sinks. STEM Project 1: Build a shelter so you can stay dry. The shelter must also withstand a windstorm (hairdryer or small fan.) STEM Project 2: Our shelter is weatherproof and strong. Now we need something to eat. While exploring the island, we found a huge grove of fruit trees. The problem, there's a river between us and the fruit trees. Bigger problem: there are huge monsters living in the river. We must build a bridge to get across the river safely. Bridge must be at least 7 inches long. STEM Project 3: We made it across the river and collected a lot of fruit, but now we need to keep it dry and away from the animals living on this island. Students must build a food storage container. It must float (in case it gets washed into the river) and it must keep the food dry. STEM Project 4: Build a catapult. We are certain there are dinosaurs roaming the island. Now we must build a catapult to defend ourselves. STEM Project 5: We decided to make a break for it. Anything is better than living on this crazy island full of dinosaurs. Students must build a raft to escape. STEM Project 6: Our raft worked, but we will never survive the ocean on a raft without anything else. What were we thinking?! We must add a shelter to keep the sun off of us. We also need to add our food storage container and fresh water. Success! We made it to civilization and escaped from this crazy island of dinosaurs! I hope you will try some of these STEM projects into your dinosaur unit. I have this entire unit for sale in my TpT store if you want all of the directions in one place and it also includes all of the QR codes to make research a breeze.
Children absolutely love a challenge. Just using the word "challenge" can get them super excited to dive into whatever learning experience you set up for them! This activity—from the Dinosaur unit in Kindergarten at Home—is no different. Your child will have an absolute blast with this bridge building STEM challenge! Bridge Building STEM Challenge for Kindergarten
Did you know that you can make your own dinosaur dig excavation activity? All you need is two household ingredients and a few sunny days. It couldn't be easier! So if you are looking for a simple dinosaur activity to do during a dinosaur theme or just for fun with the kids, this dino dig excavation is perfect for you!
Change the dramatic play centers into a Dinosaur Dig dramatic play area! Students will love digging for dinosaur bones and fossils!
Dinosaur Lady -Fossils NGSS Lesson Plan “Dinosaur Lady” – by Linda Skeers – Pdf & Nearpod Lesson Plan – The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist- “Dinos…
I don't know about you, but I am definitely getting excited for spring. There is just so much to look forward to such as warmer weather, being able to go outside for recess again, and working on fun and engaging spring STEM activities with students!
STEM activities with pencils are easy to prep and implement for back to school and end of the year stem challenges. Check out three popular STEM and science activities using pencils. Free printables included!
Cute free dinosaur printables for your upcoming dinosaur theme. These dinosaur preschool worksheets include lots of activities for kids.
We are right in the thick of our Dinosaur Unit Study, and my kids are LOVING IT! This printable dinosaur skeleton activity is our next hands-on activity, and I just know my crafty kids are going to really dig it (ha!). We are doing our unit studies a little bit differently this year. Papa is
This Erupting Dinosaur Extinction Slime could not be more fun! It foams and erupts changes colors and ends up as slime at the end! Kids LOVE this!
Kids will LOVE these FREE Paleontologist Printables to practice math and literacy with a fossil, dinosaur, and paleontolist theme.
Montessori-inspired cards featuring terms such as dinosaur, plesiosaur, pterosaur, Pangaea, and Mesozoic Era.
An in depth dinosaur unit study for budding paleontologists. Learn all about the world of the dinosaurs through books, movies, and activities.
Children absolutely love a challenge. Just using the word "challenge" can get them super excited to dive into whatever learning experience you set up for them! This activity—from the Dinosaur unit in Kindergarten at Home—is no different. Your child will have an absolute blast with this bridge building STEM challenge! Bridge Building STEM Challenge for Kindergarten
FUN dinosaur fossils for kids activity! Kids will make fossils out of pasta using these free dinosaur printables. Really cool fossils for kids project.
These FREE printable dinosaur worksheets are a fun and easy learning activity for kids! Download, print, and you're set. It's great for working on handwriting, sequencing, scissors skills, and more! Try some or all of these printables with preschool, kindergarten, and elementary children.
Try this color shadow dinosaur activity idea. Children (and adults) will love the beautiful colorful dinosaur shadows that you can create at home. Thanks to...
How Far Can Your Blow a Cloud? Or perhaps a cotton ball? I feel like measurement is one of those skills that are best formed with experience and real hands-on activities. Such as, you're rearranging your room. How much space do you need for your desk? Or comparing the lengths of dinosaurs. I think kids
Preschool & kindergarten kids will love this dinosaur stem activity! Let your children uncover their baking soda dinosaur eggs with vinegar & water droppers.
Ideas for a hands-on dinosaur unit including making and studying fossils, erupting a volcano, dinosaur centers, books, dino-mite writing, and more.
Cute free dinosaur printables for your upcoming dinosaur theme. These dinosaur preschool worksheets include lots of activities for kids.
Make a straw rocket with a free printable file! This STEM activity is for kids of all ages and they will love playing with their creation!
Dinosaur Unit 3 with Free Printables
STICK RAFT BUILDING STEM CHALLENGE - Can you build a raft that really floats? How much weight can it carry? Stretch kids' skills and engage them with Nature.
I have the absolute BEST set of Free Dinosaur Printables to share with you today! And I'm not even exaggerating; these dinosaur printables are absolutely beautiful and incorporate literacy, numeracy, vocabulary building, and more. You'll also be able to play lots of fun games with them, like a matching game, Go Fish, and Guess Who!
What is a paleontologist? If you are teaching kids about dinosaurs or fossils, you will want to download this printable paleontologist easy reader book!
10 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Activities for Preschoolers has great learning ideas for 3-4 year olds.
Make a spinning paper earth craft with this printable template. This is a fun paper craft idea for kids perfect for Earth Day which spins in the wind
Handwriting isn't really a big focus for us in homeschooling but I do want my kids to be able to write legibly. I have horrible handwriting and always have. In fact, my first bad grade was handwriting in 3rd grade. I cried...a lot. Some people have good handwriting and some people don't. So my goal
Hey you sassy things! How is your Friday going?! Mine has been full of ridiculous antics and overall chaos already and it isn't even noon. So pretty much the usual here in kindergarten crazy-ville. I am starting this post on my lunch break (though I won't be finishing it until later tonight) and I am being a total REBEL. Check me out, what a bad a**. If only my kids could see me now - blogging with reckless abandon and eating chocolate pudding with my hands because I forgot a spoon. MWA HA HA! And now it is like 11 am on Saturday. I only got ^that ^ far yesterday because I ended up spilling pudding on my keyboard. And then I tried to clean it up, which made more of a mess. Then I dropped the paper towel on my lap and had pudding on my pants. And then, while I am frozen with pudding on my hands, pants, and desk (and probably face), my kids walked back in from lunch. They didn't skip a beat, despite the fact that it looked like I had crapped myself. I guess it's pretty normal for them to be covered in random food and slime. Sigh. Well I wasn't at school on Monday because I had jury duty (seriously?! the day after spring break?! come on people) so I didn't get to do any fun things with the littles. When I came back Tuesday they were pretty stressed about my absence and were convinced that I had gone back under the knife for another knee surgery. I think I traumatized my kids when I was out in February and they may have a bit of separation anxiety. No, for real. One of my littles cries everyday on the way to lunch because she is afraid that I won't be there when she gets back. She makes me promise that I will not be going anywhere. So of course I had to explain to them that I was not out for another surgery and that I had jury duty, to which they replied, "what is that?" So being the thorough teacher that I am, I decided to seize the teachable moment and introduce them to the judicial system. Just the basics. I explained that sometimes people make very bad choices and sometimes people just think that someone has made a very bad choice and it is up to the people that they choose to be on the jury to decide who is telling truth by listening to all sides of the story. And then I gave the example of how I act as the jury (ahem, all day long) when two of my littles run up to me screaming about one another and I have to listen to both sides of the story and figure out what really happened to decide what the consequences will be. LONG story short, they seemed pretty intrigued by the whole thing. They can truly understand anything when you break it down to their level. And now I am linking up with the BEAUTIFUL Amanda from Teaching Maddeness for Friday Saturday Flashback. Man, I can't seem to be on time to anything. Better late than never I guess! This week we learned ALL about dinosaurs and had a total blasty blast. I don't usually teach dinosaurs, but my kids seemed to have a certain fascination with them so I found a way to add it into our learning :) They are pumped up my friends. Literally. They were fist pumping and saying "YEA, DINNNNNOS" when I told them what we were learning about. We got off to a fun start yesterday by reading all about what paleontologists do. We read "Dinosaur Dig" by Susan H. Gray and the kids were really into it. It focuses on all of the different tools that paleontologists need on their journeys. It is a must have for a dino unit. After reading the story, we created an anchor chart that focused on what tools paleontologists need. I found a few similar ideas floating around pinterest. One version is from the super awesome Sarah over at "First Grader... At Last!" and can be found HERE and another version is from the uber cool Courtney from Swimming into Second and can be found HERE. While the kids were at lunch, I glued the heading and the picture of Paula onto the brown paper so it was all ready to go. Then I made it into a mystery game. I read the description of each tool and they had to work in teams to guess which tool it was. Then I glued the pictures and the description onto the chart. They really loved this activity! The kids completed a student version of the chart by choosing tools, drawing a picture of each, and sounding out the word to write it. We also read the story "If the dinosaurs came back" by Bernard Most. The kids were laughing hysterically at this story. It is SO super cute. They completed a writing response activity and wrote about what they would do if the dinosaurs came back. The ideas they came up with were hilarious! The next day, I discovered 2 eggs in my backyard and we had NO clue where they came from ;) Ok, I guess I'll be honest. I bought them on Amazon for like super cheap. Click HERE to check it out. The kids wrote about what they thought could be inside the mystery eggs! We had some predictions of chicks, ducks, birds, alligators, a variety of dinosaurs, humans, cheetahs, and my all time favorite - an Aye-Aye. Have you ever heard of this animal? I had not. Apparently he learned about it in an animal documentary he watched with his family. We had to look it up as a class and this is what we found: What the he**? I don't know, but if that thing hatches from our egg, I'm gonna flip. Moving on. It still hasn't hatched yet, which I thought it would have, so we will have to wait until Monday to see what it is. In case you can't handle the suspense, it is a *SPOILER ALERT* dinosaur. I know, I never would have guessed it either. We also created our own fossils using salt dough, which came out really cool actually! (sorry some of the pictures are upside down and sideways. I'm not sure why because it is right-side up on my computer, and I attempted to fix it, but it won't fix. But you get the gist) The next day, our class became little paleontologists! EEK! It was so fun, I loved it. I found a bunch of different 'recipes' online for creating dinosaur eggs, but just mixed a few different things together and it worked out really well. My Recipe: (made about 20 small-mediumish dino rocks) 2 1/2 cups dirt 2 1/2 cups flour 1 1/2 cups salt 1 cup sand Water (enough to make it into a dough, but not too much or it will be too sticky) Here is how the mix looked before I added the water: And after the water: and I used these little dinosaurs I bought on Amazon (72 for under $10) and folded the 'dough' around them. I made into a rock shape and let them dry on the counter for about 3 days! The kids used half of a wooden skewer (as the rock hammer/chisel) to dig through and a paint brush to dust off the dirt. They also had their notebooks and a pencil to record observations, just like a real paleontologist! WHEW, this post is getting seriously long. So sorry for the out pour here. I didn't really blog all week because I was preparing for my giveaway, so this had become a debrief of the week haha. During centers, the students worked on some of my BRAND NEW centers that will be available in my upcoming DINOSAUR UNIT! HOLY DINOSAUR OVERLOAD! So if you stuck around with me long enough to read this entire post, I am in awe of you. But I hope you will be glad that you did because I am giving away my new Dinosaur Unit to 3 of my fabulous followers! All you need to do is leave a comment below with one thing you liked from this post and your email! I will choose the winners either on Sunday night or Monday morning :) and don't forget to enter my MASSIVE 375+ follower giveaway. Click below to take you straight there!I am so thankful for all of the amazing old and new followers of my blog and appreciate you more than you know :) LOVE AND HUGS SWEET FRIENDS!!
A fun STEM activity for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten to build a bridge over a river; Pre-K STEM exploration and problem-solving
