Summer Reading Program 2011, Session 1

Dinosaur Digs: Digging Up Bones with special guest host Ms. Maria

Featured books:

Dinosaur Mountain: Digging into the Jurassic Age by Deborah Kogan Ray

Dinosaurs in Your Backyard: The Coolest Scariest Creatures Ever Found in the USA by Hugh Brewster

Inside Outside Dinosaurs by Roxie Muro Sabertooth by Patrick O'Brien

Web-Based Activities

Brainteaser: Dinosaurs
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Games/PuzzlesQuizzes/Brainteaserdinosaurs
Test your dinosaur knowledge with this online game.

Dinosaur Cove
http://www.scholastic.com/dinosaurcove/
Learn a lot about dinosaurs while playing games, like Fossil Hunting, and exploring various dinosaur activities.

Dinosaurs for Kids
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/scienceforkids/dinosaurs/index.htm
Explore the world of dinosaurs, watch short movies, play games, and learn how fossils are made.

Walking With Dinosaurs: Games
http://www.walkingwithdinosaursgames.com/
Play the fossil hunting game to find dinosaur fossils among the rocks on a beach.
Design a dinosaur, test your knowledge of bones, or practice using the tools of paleontology with these games developed to support the Walking with Dinosaurs film experience.

Websites

Dinosaurs: Discovery Channel
http://dsc.discovery.com/dinosaurs/
Everything about dinosaurs is gathered here, along with the latest news about finds and fun games to play.

Detail Detective
http://www.museumoftherockies.org/Home/LEARN/MORFun/tabid/99/Default.aspx
It takes a good eye for detail to be a dinosaur hunter. This online game encourages players to spot the differences between two pictures with ever increasing complexity.