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• This classroom activity was designed to complement Dinosaurs Alive! — an IMAX film that follows AMNH paleontologists around the globe as they uncover some of the greatest dinosaur finds in history. It includes:

  • A step-by-step lesson plan, in which students compare life-size drawings to understand that dinosaurs varied in size
  • Two reproducible grids (a Tyrannosaurus rex head and a full-sizeSinornithosaurs body

• Completion Time

  Less than a week

• Subtopic

  National Science Education Standards
  Grades K-4:
  Life Science CONTENT STANDARD C: 

  • the characteristics of organisms• life cycles of organisms• organisms and environments

  Science and Technology CONTENT STANDARD E: 

  • understanding about science and technology

  Science in Personal and Social Perspectives CONTENT STANDARD F: 

  • characteristics and changes in populations• changes in environments

  History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G: 

  • science as a human endeavor

  Grades 5-8:
  Life Science CONTENT STANDARD C: 

  • diversity and adaptations of organisms

  Science and Technology CONTENT STANDARD E: 

  • understandings about science and technology

  History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G: 

  • science as a human endeavor

• Learning Standard

  National Science Education Standards
  Grades K-4:
  Life Science CONTENT STANDARD C: 

  • the characteristics of organisms• life cycles of organisms• organisms and environments

  Science and Technology CONTENT STANDARD E: 

  • understanding about science and technology

  Science in Personal and Social Perspectives CONTENT STANDARD F: 

  • characteristics and changes in populations• changes in environments

  History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G: 

  • science as a human endeavor

  Grades 5-8:
  Life Science CONTENT STANDARD C: 

  • diversity and adaptations of organisms

  Science and Technology CONTENT STANDARD E: 

  • understandings about science and technology

  History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G: 

  • science as a human endeavor