Children love learning dinosaur facts.
Many children find dinosaurs fascinating. It is important to engage this interest with educational and entertaining ways to pass the time. Luckily, many companies are discovering that they are able to incorporate ways to engage a child's love for dinosaurs with a parent's love for education. It is truly a win-win for both parties.
Monopoly Junior Dig'n Dinos Board Game
This game also reinforces math skills because children can play the banker.
Monopoly Junior Dig'n Dinos is for two to four players ages 5 to 8. The game is designed to teach children about different types of dinosaurs and dinosaur fossils. The players challenge the other players, or paleontologists, to create their monopoly. You move your paleontologist token from geological dig to geological dig on the board. As in traditional monopoly, you have the option of purchasing these digs. As you travel around the digs, you will pick up fossils and learn about different eras such as the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The game's duration is usually 45 minutes.
Dinosaurs and Things Board Game
The Dinosaurs and Things Board Game allows two or more players ages 8 and above to challenge their knowledge of dinosaurs and beyond. The game moves through the evolutionary cycle from the prehistoric age to today. Various levels in play will allow the game to remain challenging for years to come.
Discovery Kids Reconstruction Lab
With an adult's help, this game lets children ages 5 and above make inquisitive observations about dinosaurs and actively learn about the dinosaurs that once roamed our planet. Children learn conduct scientific experiments of their own. The Reconstruction Lab teaches through trail and error, and walking children through the scientific process.
Kidsdinos.com
Kidsdinos.com features free, interactive dinosaur games that test a child's knowledge of all things dinosaur. There are matching games, dinosaur hangman, dinosaur classification, dinosaur flashcards and dinosaur memory games on the website.
National Geographic Dinosaur Expedition Kits
As of August 2010, four of these kits are available; children can excavate a brachiosaurus, stegosaurus, triceratops, or a tyrannosaurus. The kits are recommended for ages 7 and up, and offer children can hands-on experience learning about dinosaurs. Much of what is included in the kit is found at digs, like a mallet and pick tool, a brush and a chisel. Also included are a fact sheet on the specific dinosaur being dug up, instructions, a dinosaur quiz and fact cards.
Dino-Dig Excavation Kit
If you are an educator, Lakeshore Learning sells a classroom set for preschools and kindergartens. Each kit comes with four sieves, brushes and 24 plastic dinosaur skeletons to hide in the sand for students to find.The skeletons come in 12 different species, making it possible for your classroom to conduct interesting and varied digs.
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