This lavishly illustrated book is filled with fun facts about dinosaurs—and best of all—it comes with fossilized dinosaur dung! Science with Stuff books aim to enhance learning with a pocket treasure that gives readers a hands-on connection to their subject. In this case, a coprolite fossil offers a window into what dinosaurs ate and how they lived. Lively text and engaging illustrations spotlight some of the most fascinating things we know about dinosaurs: their terrifying teeth, powerful tails, pointy horns, unbreakable plates, giant sails, and much more! A gallery of the fastest, slowest, biggest, smallest, and most captivating prehistoric creatures is rounded out by a snapshot of fossil hunters and their amazing new discoveries.
An uplifting new commercial picture book featuring a disabled protagonist. Dinosaur Milly Jo has a beautiful singing voice, but when a storm rages and brings down a tree, it falls on top of Milly and she loses her lovely voice! But can she find a new way to shine with the help of her friends?
It has been 65 million years since dinosaurs last roamed the Earth. That changes in the summer of 2003 when Pittsburgh becomes a real-life "Jurassic Park"-with a twist. The city will play host to DinoMite Days, coordinated by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, a public art exhibition of brightly painted and creatively decorated fiberglass dinosaurs. Dinosaurs of Distinction tells the story of the event, and serves as a guidebook to the location of the one hundred sculptures that will populate Pittsburgh's streets, office buildings, parks, plazas, and gardens. The book is filled with color photographs, along with information about each dinosaur's artist and the name of each corporate "sponsaur." Once the beasts are auctioned off for charity in the fall, the book will also serve as the perfect keepsake of this brief return of dinosaurs to western Pennsylvania. Modeled after the immensely popular outdoor art exhibitions of cows, horses, pigs, and other animal sculptures in Chicago, New York, and other North American cities, this exhibition is the first to feature fiberglass models of dinosaurs, a choice that celebrates Pittsburgh's international reputation for scientific discovery and innovation by drawing attention to the world-class dinosaur collection housed at Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Three different species, Tyrannosaurus rex, Stegosaurus, and Torosaurus, will be represented, though none are life-sized. DinoMite Days will decorate Pittsburgh with a colorful display of local artistry, fueling the imaginations and delighting the senses of both children and adults. Dinosaurs of Distinction documents the artistic process that led to the creation of these Mesozoic marvels, and provides interesting and relevant dinosaur facts that tie each design back to Carnegie Museum of Natural History's remarkable paleontology collections.
DINO-MATH was created to capitalize on the child's natural interest in dinosaurs. The activities in the unit have been designed to reinforce and to develop skills in the following areas of mathematics: numbers, measurement and geometry.
Students read a high-interest nonfiction article, strengthen comprehension skills by responding to follow-up questions, study a primary source document, and demonstrate critical-thinking skills through document-based questions.
Included are 38 stories for audiences of all ages withan outline, performance tips, adaptatoins, props, etc. and ideas on how to create original stories for storytelling.
For the Mackey family, it seems to be life as we know it today. But will Liza's and Theo's new dinosaur-robot toys change everything? It's 3012, and Jim Smith and his family are leaving their home planet. Why? What will life be like on their new planet? Read these stories to find out.
