The Early Years: If You Were a Dinosaur…

by: Peggy Ashbrook

Dinosaurs are one of those science topics that draw children in and teach them about concepts like measuring and using descriptive language. Learning about dinosaurs, although not hands-on like observing and recording caterpillar growth, develops critical thinking and introduces animal diversity and the relations between body form and function. Learning about the characteristics of organisms and about fossils is part of the National Science Education Standards for life science and Earth and space science (NRC 1996).

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 1/1/2010Stock # sc10_047_05_19Volume 047Issue 05

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