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Dinosaurs
What makes a dinosaur a dinosaur, when they lived, how we know about them from bones and footprints, the Iguanodons found deep in a Belgian coal mine, why most dinosaurs died out, and why birds are living dinosaurs. Based on the US National Park Service, the Australian Museum, the Natural History Museum (London), the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, the Open University, a peer-reviewed trackway study and Encyclopaedia Britannica. Three ages, each with a text, an experiment, a game, a quiz, a printable worksheet and a teacher sheet.
Ages 6–7Dinosaur detectivesDinosaurs lived a very long time ago. Find out how we know about them, meet the Iguanodons found deep in a Belgian mine, measure how long an Iguanodon was, and discover which dinosaurs are still alive today.Ages 10–11Dinosaurs: when, what and how we knowWhen dinosaurs lived, what makes an animal a dinosaur, what fossils can tell us, the Bernissart Iguanodons, the asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs, and how birds survived. With a fair-test footprint investigation.Ages 15–16Reading trackways: dinosaur speed, evidence and uncertaintyHow dinosaurs are defined by ancestry, how speed is estimated from fossil trackways with Alexander's equation, how well that equation really works, and how scientists weighed the evidence for the end-Cretaceous extinction.