KLRN and PBS are kicking off Dino Week June 16-20 with the premiere of Walking with Dinosaurs, airing June 16 at 7 PM and streaming on PBS.org! 

We’ve curated some of our favorite PBS KIDS and PBS LearningMedia resources to help your students stomp their way into scientific curiosity and bring prehistoric times to life!

Dinosaur Resources K-6

Dinosaur Train- “Dinosaur Train” embraces and celebrates the fascination that preschoolers have with both dinosaurs and trains! Kids can join Buddy and his adoptive Pteranodon family on a whimsical voyage through prehistoric jungles, swamps, volcanoes and oceans, as they unearth basic concepts in life science, natural history and paleontology.

• Dinosaur Train PBS Parents Collection
• Dinosaur Train Collection on PBS KIDS Dinosaur Train-themed videos, games and activities!
• Dinosaurs A to Z! | Dinosaur Train In this video excerpt from Dinosaur Train, Buddy, and Tiny name species of dinosaurs from Apatosaurus to Zigongosaurus when they sing the "Dinosaurs A to Z" song with Mr. Conductor.
   

Dinosaur George
 “Dinosaur George” Blasing is a self-taught paleontologist and animal behaviorist with more than 35 years of study and research experience. This Collection of Lesson Plans for Grades K-6 may be used alone or to complement a visit from Dinosaur George. Lessons cover Science and English/Language Arts/Reading standards, and all of the student activity sheets are available in both English and Spanish.

• Dinosaur George l Dinosaurs l Kinder Students learn the characteristics of the Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, and Apatosaurus.
• Dinosaur George l If the Dinosaurs Came Back l First Grade Students learn that dinosaurs are extinct.
• Dinosaur George l K-W-L Chart l Second Grade Students use their existing knowledge about dinosaurs to help make a class “KWL chart".
• Dinosaur George l Herbivores or Carnivores l Third Grade Students will identify dinosaurs as consumers, as herbivores or carnivores.
• Dinosaur George l Fact or Opinion l Fourth Grade Students will read statements about the Mesozoic Era and identify if they are facts or opinions.
• Dinosaur George l Dinosaur Jigsaw l Fifth Grade Students will work in cooperative groups to create a poster of a period (Triassic, Jurassic or Cretaceous) during the Mesozoic Era.

Middle and High School Resources

• Dinosaur GPS, paleontologist using Landsat Spectral Signatures in order to find fossils.
• Discussing Dinosaurs with a Paleontologist, discussion with Mark Norrel the Chairman of the Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, discusses the field of paleontology in this clip from SciTech Now.
• T.Rex Blood NOVA Science Now, learn how scientists are hoping to better understand the biology of dinosaurs by studying the inside of fossil bones. (ENG/SPN)
• Paul Barrett on How Dinosaurs’ Teeth Reveal What they Ate, discusses similarities in dinosaurs and humans teeth adaptation. (audio)
• Digging Dinos, documenting the work of paleontologists in the desert mountains of Utah.
• Recreating Spinosaurus, scientists use a digital model to reconstruct spinosaurus.

Witte Museum Naylor Family Dinosaur Gallery

With just one step into the Naylor Family Dinosaur Gallery, travel millions of years into the past. Explore the amazing animals of land, sea and sky during the Cretaceous Period, more than 110 million years ago, in what is now Texas.

Visit the Museum for FREE Bexar County Residents, Every Tuesday from 3 – 6 p.m. More information here: https://www.wittemuseum.org/plan-your-visit/free-tuesdays/