In this unit, students create, bury, and unearth imitation fossils, the backbone of dinosaur research. They try to reconstruct dinosaur skeleton models and speculate about the animal's appearance and behavior, based on their bones.They investigate dinosaur footprints and make inferences about size, speed, and stride. Using dinosaur figurines, students become familiar with various dinosaurs' physical features, and they develop a classification system and learn the meaning of dinosaur names.

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