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For Students in Grades K-2

Barton, Byron. 1990. Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones. New York: T.V. Crowell.

————. Dinosaurs. 1995. New York: HarperFestival.

Brandenberg, Aliki. 1988. Digging up Dinosaurs. New York: Harper & Row.

Carrick, Carol. 1989. Big, Old Bones: A Dinosaur Tale. New York: Clarion Books.

Gibbons, Gail. 1987. Dinosaurs. New York: Holiday House.

For Students in Grades 3-8

Cole, Joanna. 1994. The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs. New York: Scholastic, Inc.

Currie, Phillip and Colleayn Mastin. 1998. The Newest and Coolest Dinosaurs. GHBK publishers.

Funston, Sylvia. 1992. The Dinosaur Question and Answer Book. Toronto: Owl Book.

Gaffney, Eugene. 1990. Dinosaurs. New York: Golden Guide Series.

Horner, John, and James Gorman. 1989. Maia: A Dinosaur Grows Up. Philadelphia: Running Press.

Norman, David, and Angel Milner. 1989. Dinosaur. New York: Eyewitness Books.

Wexo, John Bennett. 1992. Zoobook Series: Dinosaurs. San Diego: Wildlife Education Limited.

For Students in Grades 9-12

Currie, Philip. 1996. The Great Dinosaur Egg Hunt. National Geographic 189: 96-111.

Gore, Rick. 1993. Dinosaurs. National Geographic 183: 2-54.

Lessem, Don, and Donald Glut. 1993. Dinosaur Society’s Dinosaur Encyclopedia. New York: Random House.

Russell, Dale. 1989. An Odyssey in Time: The Dinosaurs of North America. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press.

Thomas, David A., and James O Farlow. 1997. Tracking a Dinosaur Attack. Scientific American 277: 74-79.

For Teachers

DeSalle, Rob and David Lindley, 1997 The Science of Jurassic Park and the Lost World, or How to Build a Dinosaur Out of print, but you may be able to find a copy at your local library.

Lambert, David and The Diagram Group The Dinosaur Data Book NY: Avon Books, 1990

Sharon Schiliro, ed. 1997. NatureScope: Digging Into Dinosaurs. New York: McGraw Hill Co. Resource for teachers grades K-8.

McGowan, Chris. 1997. Make Your Own Dinosaur Out of Chicken Bones. New York: HarperCollins. Learn about bird and dinosaur skeletons as you create an Apatosaurus skeleton out of chicken bones.

Munsart, Craig. 1993. Investigating Science with Dinosaurs. Englewood, Co: Teacher Ideas Press. Excellent information and activities resource for grades 4-12.

Dinosaur Websites

naturalsciences.org/dinoheart/
Learn about Willo, the Museum's own dinosaur, the first ever found with a fossilized heart.

www.dinosauria.com
Jeff Poling’s dinosaur page is a good site for teachers and older students. It contains links to other sites, pictures, the Dino Store, and essays on a variety of dinosaur topics.

www.nationalgeographic.com/dinorama
National Geographic's Dinorama

www.sdnhm.org/kids/dinosaur
San Diego Natural History Museum - Dinosaur Dig

www.ucmp.berkeley.edu
The Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkley

www.zoomdinosaurs.com
A fun site for kids and teachers, it has classroom activities, on-line activities, and dinosaur information pages.

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The Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park: The Lost World was produced by Dinosaur Exhibitions, LLC, under the direction of "Dino" Don Lessem, and in partnership with Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment. The exhibition was designed by Museum Design Associates. Jurassic Park and Lost World are trademarks of Universal City Studios and Amblin Entertainment.

Teachers Guide materials developed by San Diego Natural History Museum and used by permission. Some activities adapted or developed by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

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