- Room set up:
Dinosaur poster - see through, best mounted on window.

Shell  Stamps &  stamp pads - look at fossils in local rocks and compare 
  to shell pictures.

Fossil Playdough - add coffee grounds and play sand to favorite playdough recipe.

Shells for fossil prints - press shells into fossil playdough.

Dino Dig - sand and uncooked pasta and tools ( small trays, magnifying  glasses, 
  plastic forks,and popsicle sticks).  Assemble "bones" on construction paper 
  with glue.

Plastic Dinosaur Counters 

Bone castings - students can chip away at bone castings made with chicken bones.

Fossils from personal collection - talk about finding fossils with Aunt.

Pig's skull and fossil rock for examination

Life size T-Rex leg cut out of butcher paper - tape to wall so students can 
  compare their height.

- Vocabulary:  dinosaur, paleontologist, skeleton, fossil, extinct, carnivore, 
herbivore, and reptile.

- Computer Set Up:
The Land Before Time (2) Programs for Computers
Dinosaurs 3D
KID PIX (Art Program) - students may use "paint" features to create a critter 
and use the dinosaur stamps to decorate their creations. 

Book List:
All About Alligators  by Jim Arnosky
Dinosaurs  by Golden Books
Dinosaurs  by Gail Gibbons
Dinosaurs  by Rebecca L. Grambo
Dinosaurs  by Donald  Silver
Dinosaur Days  by Joyce Milton
Dino Riddles  by Katy Hall and Lisa Eisenberg
Dinosaur Time  by Peggy Parish
Fish  by Jane P. Resnick
If the Dinosaurs Came Back  by Bernard Most
Iguanas   by R. D. and Patricia P. Bartlett
Prehistoric Animals  by David Eastman
The Flapdoodle Dinosaurs  by David A. Carter
The Spiked-Tailed Dinosaur  by Michael Berenstain
Touch and Feel Dinosaur  by Dorling Kindersley
What Ever Happened to the Dinosaurs?  by Bernard Most
  
- Other links:
Fossil Dough Recipe
Dinosaur Song