Dinosaur+Research+Pathfinder

**__Dinosaur Research Project__** **Intended Grade Level:**

8th grade

**Introduction:**

This pathfinder is designed to assist students with their dinosaur research project on their specific dinosaur. Students will be selecting a specific and expect to fully research the dinosaurs name, discovery, time, location, structure, movement, food, defense, and perpetuation of the species. The purpose of this research project is to have students explore the Earth’s history through a specific dinosaur’s time span on this planet. Through the research they will learn how to research, organize facts, cite those facts and put together a well-rounded research project.

**Possible Search Terms of Keywords:** 
 * Paleontologist
 * Pangea or Pangaea
 * Saurischians
 * Ornithischians
 * Carnivores
 * Herbivores
 * Omnivores
 * Insectivores
 * Cannibal
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Biped
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Quadruped
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Opposable finger
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Gastroliths
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Orders of Classification
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Age of Reptiles (era and period)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">E.Q. (encephalization quotient)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Dewey Numbers:**

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">550 – Earth sciences <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">551 – Geology, hydrology, meteorology <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">554 – Earth sciences of Europe <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">555 – Earth sciences of Asia <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">556 – Earth sciences of Africa <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">557 – Earth sciences of North America <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">558 – Earth sciences of South America <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">559 – Earth sciences of other areas <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">560 – Paleontology; Paleozoology <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">561 – Paleobotany <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">566 – Fossil Vertebrata <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">567 – Fossil cold-blooded vertebrates <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">569 – Fossil Mammalia <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">570 – Life Sciences <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">571 – Physiology <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">573 – Physiological systems of animals <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">577 – Ecology <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">578 – Natural history of organisms

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Print Resources (Nonfiction):**


 * 1) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Barrett, Paul. //National Geographic Dinosaurs//. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic;, 2006. Print.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Benton, M. J. //Realm of the Dinosaurs//. New York: Kingfisher, 1998. Print.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Benton, M. J. //Walking with Dinosaurs: Fascinating Facts//. New York: Dorling Kindersley Pub., 2000. Print.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Brusatte, Stephen, and M. J. Benton. //Dinosaurs//. London: Quercus, 2008. Print.
 * 5) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Burnie, David, John Sibbick, and David Burnie. //The Concise Dinosaur Encyclopedia//. New York: Kingfisher, 2004. Print.
 * 6) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Carpenter, Kenneth. //Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs: a Look at Dinosaur Reproduction//. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1999. Print.
 * 7) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Clark, Neil, James Field, and Alex Pang. //A Look inside Dinosaurs//. [Pleasantville, N.Y.]: Reader's Digest Association, 1995. Print.
 * 8) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Cohen, Daniel. //Allosaurus and Other Jurassic Meat-eaters//. Minneapolis, MN: Capstone, 1996. Print.
 * 9) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Colbert, Edwin H.. //The age of reptiles//. New York: Norton, 1965. Print.
 * 10) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Davidson, Susanna, Stephanie Turnbull, Rachel Firth, Luis V. Rey, Andrea Slane, Darren Naish, and David M. Martill. //The Usborne Internet-linked World Atlas of Dinosaurs//. New York: Scholastic, 2005. Print.
 * 11) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Dixon, Dougal. //Dinosaurs//. San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay, 2005. Print.
 * 12) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Dixon, Dougal. //Dinosaurs: Carnivores.// Milwaukee WI: Gareth Stevens, 2001. Print.
 * 13) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Dixon, Dougal. //Herbivores//. Milwaukee, WI: Gareth Stevens Pub., 2001. Print.
 * 14) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Dixon, Dougal. //Visual encyclopedia of dinosaurs//. London: Dorling Kindersley, 2005. Print.
 * 15) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Dodson, Peter, and Wayne Douglas. Barlowe. //An Alphabet of Dinosaurs//. New York: Scholastic, 1995. Print.
 * 16) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Haines, Tim. //Walking with dinosaurs: a natural history//. New York: DK, 2000. Print.
 * 17) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Holmes, Thom, Laurie Holmes, and Michael William Skrepnick. //Armored, Plated, and Bone-headed Dinosaurs: the Ankylosaurs, Stegosaurs, and Pachycephalosaurs//. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2002. Print.
 * 18) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Holmes, Thom, Laurie Holmes, and Michael William Skrepnick. //Baby Dinosaurs: Eggs, Nests, and Recent Discoveries//. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2003. Print.
 * 19) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Holmes, Thom, Laurie Holmes, and Michael William Skrepnick. //Gigantic Long-necked Plant-eating Dinosaurs: the Prosauropods and Sauropods//. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2001. Print.
 * 20) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Holmes, Thom, Laurie Holmes, and Michael William Skrepnick. //Horned Dinosaurs: the Ceratopsians//. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2001. Print.
 * 21) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Holmes, Thom, Laurie Holmes, and Michael William Skrepnick. //Meat-eating Dinosaurs: the Theropods//. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2001. Print[[image:reading_dinosaur.gif width="220" height="256" align="right" link="http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-portal-display?id=SDE0210-0-4717"]]
 * 22) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Holmes, Thom, Laurie Holmes, and Michael William Skrepnick. //Peaceful Plant-eating Dinosaurs: the Iguanodonts, Duckbills, and Other Ornithopods//. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2001. Print.
 * 23) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Horner, John R., and James Gorman. //Digging Dinosaurs//. New York: Perennial Library, 1990. Print.
 * 24) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Johnson, Jinny. //Prehistoric Life Explained: a Beginner's Guide to the World of the Dinosaurs//. New York: Henry Holt and, 1996. Print.
 * 25) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Landau, Elaine. //Tyrannosaurus rex//. New York: Children's Press, 1999. Print.
 * 26) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Larson, Peter L., and Kenneth Carpenter. //Tyrannosaurus rex, the tyrant king//. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. Print.
 * 27) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lessem, Don, and Donna Braginetz. //Utahraptor: the deadliest dinosaur//. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 1996. Print.
 * 28) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lessem, Don, and Jan Sovak. //Scholastic dinosaurs A to Z: the ultimate dinosaur encyclopedia//. New York: Scholastic, 2004. Print.
 * 29) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lessem, Don, and John Bindon. //Armored dinosaurs//. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., 2005. Print.
 * 30) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lessem, Don, and John Bindon. //Giant meat-eating dinosaurs//. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., 2005. Print.
 * 31) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lipari, Paul, and Diane K. Stevenson. //Dinosaurs//. Kansas City, [Mo.: Andrews and McMeel, 1996. Print.
 * 32) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Llamas, Andreu, and Luis Rizo. //The Era of Dinosaurs//. New York: Chelsea House, 1996. Print.
 * 33) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Malam, John. //Dinosaur atlas//. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2006. Print.
 * 34) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Malam, John. //Dinosaurs//. Philadelphia: Running, 2001. Print.
 * 35) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Moody, Richard. //Dinofile: profiles of 120 amazing, terrifying and bizarre beasts//. London: Hamlyn ;, 2006. Print.
 * 36) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Norman, David, and Bob Hersey. //Spotter's Guide to Dinosaurs//. Tulsa, OK: EDC Pub., 2001. Print.
 * 37) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Parker, Steve. //Dinosaur Identifier//. London: Apple, 1991. Print.
 * 38) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Paul, Gregory S.. //The Princeton field guide to dinosaurs//. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2010. Print.
 * 39) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Sattler, Helen Roney, and Anthony Rao. //Dinosaurs of North America//. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1981. Print.
 * 40) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Stevenson, Jay, and George R. McGhee. //The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dinosaurs//. New York: Alpha, 1998. Print.
 * 41) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wilkes, Angela. //The big book of dinosaurs: a first book for young children//. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1994. Print.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Print Resources (Reference):**


 * 1) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Burnie, David. //The Kingfisher Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs//. New York: Kingfisher, 2001. Print.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Benton, M. J. //The Dinosaur Encyclopedia//. New York: Wanderer, 1984. Print.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Lambert, David. //The Dinosaur Data Book: the Definitive, Fully Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs//. New York: Avon, 1990. Print.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Databases:**

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|UD Lib Search] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Gale Science in Context] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Gale Student Resources in Context] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|SIRS Knowledge Source] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|General OneFile] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Britannica School Edition] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|World Book Student] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Facts on File Science Online]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Internet Resources:**

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Dinosaurs for Kids] – general information on dinosaurs <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Dinosaur Illustrations] – illustrations of dinosaurs (think structure and your poster) <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Discovery Dinosaur Central] – Discovery Channel information on dinosaurs along with videos <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Delaware Museum of Natural History] – information on a variety of dinosaurs <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Zoom Dinosaurs] – wide-range of information on almost all dinosaurs <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Dinosaur Fact] – many, many dinosaur facts on specific dinosaurs <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Smithsonian Museum of Natural History] – Dinosaurs – Up-to-date information on dinosaurs <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|USGS Dinosaurs: Facts and Fiction] – general questions answered about dinosaurs <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|The Dinosauria] – facts about dinosaurs from University of California Museum of Paleontology <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Dinosaur National Monument] – Information on the National Park, its history and dinosaur files <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Dinosauria On-Line] – facts and files on all the different species of dinosaurs <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|LiveScience Topic Dinosaurs] – covers specific facts on dinosaurs

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Multimedia Resources:**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Walking with Dinosaurs –
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Walking with Dinosaurs//. Dir. Tim Haines and Jasper James. BBC, 2000. DVD.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Jurassic Park –
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Jurassic Park//. Dir. Steven Spielberg. 1993. DVD.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Lost World: Jurassic Park –
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Lost World: Jurassic Park//. Dir. Steven Spielberg. 1997. DVD.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Jurassic Park III – [[image:compsognathus_longipes_with_feathers.gif width="288" height="115" align="right"]]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Jurassic Park III//. Dir. Joe Johnston. 2001. DVD.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">When Dinosaurs Roamed America –
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//When Dinosaurs Roamed America//. Discovery Channel, 2001. DVD.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Dinosaurs Alive
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Dinosaurs Alive (IMAX)//. Dir. Brett Leonard. IMAX, 2007. DVD.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Community Resources:**

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Kirkwood Library] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|University of Delaware Morris Library] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Delaware Museum of Natural History] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|New Castle Public Library] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Bear Library] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Hockessin Library] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Brandywine Hundred Library] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Elsmere Library] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Garfield Park Lending Library] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Newark Free Library] <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Woodlawn Library]