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Present herbivorous and horned dinosaurs - the plant eaters and other educational themes.
The easy horned dinosaur craft, resembling a Triceratops, can be adapted for children two years old and older, with or without brass fasteners that allow the head and legs to move.
Decide on a sequence that best meets your needs. Review, and prepare a display with the printable materials available.
Science/Social Studies:
Activity: Science - Animals: Basic Dinosaur, Herbivore and Triceratops Facts
Idea: Review the coloring pages to make an educational coloring book with a selection of horned herbivore
dinosaurs. Make a cover with construction paper.
- Herbivore generally defined as an animal that eats only plant material.
- Carnivore
generally
defined as an animal that eats other animals or the flesh of other
animals.
- Extinct:
having died out or ceased to exist
- Dinosaurs are considered reptiles by scientists.
- Dinosaurs had many characteristics that reptiles on earth today have, like
an iguana or
a crocodile.
- Herbivore dinosaurs had scaly bodies, hatched their young from eggs, and were cold
blooded.
- Dinosaurs were herbivores or carnivores. The
carnivores would eat the herbivores. Dinosaurs are extinct.
- Resource: Triceratops at wikibooks.org/wikijunior
- The Triceratops is one of the most famous herbivorous
dinosaurs and the largest of the horned dinosaurs. It had a square
body and a short tail. A hard collar of bone stuck out from the
back of its neck, and it had three horns to protect itself from the
meat eaters, like the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Activity > Alphabet Activities: T is for Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus
Review materials for an alphabet letter presentation and handwriting
practice in the materials column.
Activity:
Triceratops Paper Craft
Activity: Video and/or Picture Book Activity: Stream a preschool video with an educational
message and dinosaur theme. The Land
Before Time videos
are a good choice for (ages 4+)
for older preschoolers and impart good messages of friendship
and helping each other. One of the main characters, Cera is a Triceratops. Visit the YouTube channel.
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Triceratops paper craft
coloring page
handwriting worksheet
Dinosaurs alphabet A-Z
Coloring Pages
Triceratops [1] [2] [3]
Dinosaurs coloring pages |
