Call number
E B
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Publication
Greenwillow Books (1990), Edition: Illustrated, 32 pages
Description
A cast of characters looks for, finds, and assembles some dinosaur bones.
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LibraryThing member ccondra
You could read this if you were doing a unit on dinosaur bones. Have the students talk about how the bones are still around after all of this time.
LibraryThing member TorrieM
This is a good book for K-3rd grade. It talks about the process of finding dinosaur bones and them ending up in the museum. At the end of the book is gives names and pictures of many different dinosours. This book can also help teach about the part of the body.
LibraryThing member jebass
A simple story about archaeologists and what they do: we follow a group of archaeologist on the search for dinosaur bones. They find bones for a number of dinosaurs, dig them up, load them into a truck, and ultimately assemble the bones into a completed dinosaur skeleton. The text is very simple
It would be a great book to accompany a series of lessons on prehistoric time and dinosaurs, describing in very basic terminology the process of an archaeological dig. Although the book never uses the term “archaeologist,” but it would be fun to read the book and ask a classroom of students to guess the correct term for people who find and study fossils and bones for a living. It features the names of several dinosaurs, and I can imagine it would be fun to incorporate some sort of “archaeological dig” into the lesson; a dinosaur hunt of some kind, matching the name of the dinosaur to a picture of it, hunting for pieces of a dinosaur and then assembling it (whether it was an actual kit of some sort or dinosaurs cut-outs made from construction paper and hidden around the classroom). This story would make a great intro to a variety of hands-on activities that will make learning fun for the youngest children.
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and basic (aside from the complex names of several different dinos), intended for a younger audience with little prior knowledge or interest in dinosaurs.It would be a great book to accompany a series of lessons on prehistoric time and dinosaurs, describing in very basic terminology the process of an archaeological dig. Although the book never uses the term “archaeologist,” but it would be fun to read the book and ask a classroom of students to guess the correct term for people who find and study fossils and bones for a living. It features the names of several dinosaurs, and I can imagine it would be fun to incorporate some sort of “archaeological dig” into the lesson; a dinosaur hunt of some kind, matching the name of the dinosaur to a picture of it, hunting for pieces of a dinosaur and then assembling it (whether it was an actual kit of some sort or dinosaurs cut-outs made from construction paper and hidden around the classroom). This story would make a great intro to a variety of hands-on activities that will make learning fun for the youngest children.
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LibraryThing member ljhliesl
I cannot imagine an age where this would be appropriate. It manages to make the job of unearthing dinosaur fossils even more tedious than it probably is in the field, what with the toothbrushes they probably have to use. Milo would have more fun moving his pile of sand grain by grain.
LibraryThing member imranahmed
They find the bones of the different parts of dinosaur and then collect them to their exact position.
Awards
CCBC Choices (1990)
NCTE Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for Pre-K—Grade 6 (10th Edition: 1988-1992)
Pages
32
ISBN
0690048254 / 9780690048254