ALL DINOS

Smithsonian Lesson Plans, Activities and Dinosaur figures.

Welcome to Dinosaurs and Dioramas: Each day we will offer a variety of activities that campers can make friends as well as learn about dinosaurs and Mesozoic life.  We have some very exciting projects planned for this week, and we wanted to share a few of them with you.  This is a list of some of our activities:

Smithsonian Association Summer Camp Dinosaurs and Diorama Lesson plan.

Smithsonian Natural History Museum field trip lesson guide.

National Botanical Garden Field trip lesson guide.

Survive O Saurus

Students will be able to role play the dinosaur Late Triassic Dinosaur Coelophysis based on the Walking with Dinosaurs documentary.

Dinosaur Safari Jr

Students can be introduced to the miniature Role playing game Saurian Safari Jr and hunt dinosaurs. The rules are a simplified variant Of the Saurian Safari rules developed by Chris Peers and published by HLBS publishing 2002, this an instructional aid used for the Smithsonian Summer camp program. They are aimed at a grades K – 4.

Late Jurassic Scenario: Land of the Giants.

Walk among the the Giants with the Late Jurassic Morrison scenario. The Morrison represents a widespread area in the western United States during the Late Jurassic. It was a flood plain characterized by rivers, small ponds and lakes in the wet season. The semiarid Morrison Formation formed as a series of streams, lakes, and rivers and was seasonally wet and dry. The Morrison is world famous for its fossils of dinosaurs; Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, Allosaurus, Diplodocus, Camarasaurus, Ceratosaurus. Plants were giant conifers, ginkgo, cycads, and horsetails, ferns. No flowering plants. This scenario is designed to teach the gamers what animals and plants lived in the Late Jurassic of North America.

Late Cretaceous Scenario: The Last of the Dinosaurs.

The Hell Creek formation of Montana and the Dakotas represents the only well studied terminal Late Cretaceous fauna. It contains a varied group of theropods, ornithipods, pachycephalosaurs, ankylosaurs and ceratopsids. The last of the dinosaurs are found here. Also the most famous dinosaurs Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops are from here. It has been the popular vision of dinosaurs and how they lived. The flowering plants dominate the flora; conifers are locally common with ferns and their allies primarily in an herbaceous role. This scenario is designed to teach the gamers what animals and plants lived in the Late Cretaceous of North America.