Students can write and edit a creative story about a dinosaur they find and what happens when they bring it to school. Students can identify and find these states on a map. Read aloud Digging Up Dinosaurs by Aliki. Make a class chart of the different dinosaur experts and their jobs. Allow students to choose which job they would like to have a write about why they chose that job.
Students can practice being paleontologists.
Give each student a chocolate chip cookie. Tell the students that they will pretend that this cookie is a piece of rock that they found on a geological dig. Give each student a toothpick and see who can dig out the most fossils without breaking them. Read some dinosaur books to determine how tall dinosaurs were. Allow students to measure each other to determine how they would compare to a dinosaur.