Dinosaurs and geography

[Moxie]

My 7 year old gets a subject into his head and becomes obsessed with it; first it was trains, then Jupiter, now dinosaurs. I try to use these obsessions to our advantage (if you can't beat 'em....).

 

I was thinking about doing a notebook about where dinosaurs were discovered. He would love it and I think it would be a great way to learn continents and countries.

 

Does anyone know a good source for free or cheap outline maps to print out? I'd love any other ideas anyone has!!

 

Melissa

[chiguirre]

Here's a link for free downloadable maps:

 

http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxindex.htm

 

If you're going to study where dinosaurs were discovered, you could incorporate plate techtonics and see how the continents have moved during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretacious vs. modern day.

 

Here's a site about pangea:

 

http://geology.com/pangea.htm

[Moxie]

Thanks!! That's a great idea!!

[Kay in Cal]

Usborne makes a dinosaur atlas... basically a nice dinosaur book, but organized geographically. I have an older version.

 

 

http://www.amazon.com/Usborne-World-Atlas-Dinosaurs/dp/0794517390

[kristavws]

We utilized Dinosaur Notebooking Pages by Notebooking Nook when we studied dinosaurs this year. It comes with 22-dinosaur pages and a number of black pages, in case a dinosaur you would like to study is not included. For each selected dinosaur, there is a coloring page, a facts page (name, scientific name, diet, fossil evidence, and more), a map page (Where in the world did "X" live?), a page that could be used for copywork, and a page that could be used for writing.

 

Krista

[khope1]

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/

 

this site has other stuff besides the maps, but you choose how big you want to print the map which is pretty cool.

HTH

Kimmi

[Stacia]

Not exactly what you're looking for, but a very interesting book is "The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins"

http://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Waterhouse-Hawkins-Illuminating-Lecturer/dp/B000B86SAC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207457294&sr=1-1

 

"Graveyards of the Dinosaurs" would also be a good resource book for the type of study you want to do:

http://www.amazon.com/Graveyards-Dinosaurs-There-Books-Paperback/dp/078681540X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207457678&sr=1-3

[Stacia]

Oh, also there's a teacher guide from Dinosaur World that may have something of interest, in case you want to flip through it:

http://www.dinoworld.net/pdf/TeachersGuide.pdf'>http://www.dinoworld.net/pdf/TeachersGuide.pdf'>http://www.dinoworld.net/pdf/TeachersGuide.pdf'>http://www.dinoworld.net/pdf/TeachersGuide.pdf

 

The main page for Dinosaur World is:

http://www.dinoworld.net/

 

Here's a cool map w/ dinos:

http://www.amaps.com/EDUdinosaurs.htm