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1st Grade
Teachers, Mrs. Shelley Davis and Ms. Sharifa Mansoory |
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| Millions of years ago dinosaurs roamed the earth and this year Pinecrest first graders discovered the amazing world of those giant creatures. Each student picked a dinosaur and did research about it. Then in their neatest handwriting they wrote a report about what they learned. They also made creative projects that demonstrated the habitats of dinosaurs. Below you will see some of our students' projects. |
Triceratops
Time lived: 65 million years ago
Description: They had 3 horns on their face. They fought with their horns. They were the strongest. The T-Rex could eat them.
Food preference: Plants, herbivores
Habitat: In western United States and western Canada
Archaeopteryx
Meaning: Ancient Wing
Where Found: Germany
How it moved: 2 legs and flying
Type of feeder: Carnivorus
Period: Upper Jurassic
When it lived: 147,000 years ago
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Time lived: Late Cretaceous period, 67 million years ago
Description: A T-Rex had the most powerhul head. It was more than 40 feet tall. It also had the biggest teeth that were sharp and strong for crushing bones. It had big feet and very short arms. They were very strong.
Food preference: It ate large dinosaurs like Triceratops.
Habitat: A T-Rex lived in forests, so it could find plenty of food.
Barosaurus
Barosaurus meaning "heavy reptile" lived 150 million years ago in western North America and East Africa. It was a plant eater, had a long neck, small head and long tail, was about 66 to 88 feet long and weighed 44 tons. Barosaurus' primary defense against predators was its size. It was a slow walker and walked on four legs.
Triceratops
Time lived: in Cretaceous period, about 72 to 65 years ago
Description: Triceratops was a rhinocerous-like dinosaur. It walked on four legs and had three horns on its face, one short horn above its beak and two longer horns above its eyes. It was about 30 ft. long, 10 ft. tall, and weighed up to 6 to 12 tons. It had a short, pointed tail, a bulky body, column-like legs, and a bony neck with bony bumps. It had many cheek teeth and powerful jaws. Triceratops was hunted and eaten by T-Tex. They walked on four short legs. It was a slow dinosaur.
Food preference: Plant eater. Triceratops could chew well with its cheek teeth.
Habitat: Mostly in western Canada and western United States. About 50, some partial, skeletons have been found.
Stegosaurus
Time lived: Jurassic Period
Description: It had green skin with scales, big diamond shaped plates on its back in one or two rows.
Food preference: Plants and leaves
Habitat: Colorado
Oviraptor
Time lived: Cretaceous Period
Description: Parrot-like head, toothless beak, 6 feet long, walked on two feet, claws on large hands about 2 inches long
Food Preference: Eggs, fruit and shellfish
Habitat: Mongolia
Spinosaurus "Spiny Lizard"
Timed lived: Cretaceous period
Spinosaurus had a flexible upper spine. The Spinosaurus walked on two legs. It was about 40-50 feet long. It had a large head, spark teeth and powerful jaws. Its arms were smaller than its legs. It may have gone on all fours at times.
Tyrannosaurus Rex
The T-Rex lived in the forest where there were plenty of dinosaurs for them to eat. They walked on two strong legs and had tiny arms. Their teeth were nine inches long and were replaced when lost.
Triceratops - "Three-horned face"
Time Period: Late Cretaceous Period, 65-70 millions years ago, one of the last dinosaurs to become extinct.
Characteristics: Oviparous (hatched from egg), Herbivore (plant eater), Four-leg walker, Predator-Tyrannosaurus Rex
Habitat: The Rocky Mountains and North American plains
Plesiosaurus
Time lived: Early Jurassic period
Description: It had a small head, a long and slender neck, wide body, and two pairs of body flippers.
Food preference: It ate fish by trapping them in its jaw between its sharp teeth.
Habitat: It lived on the water and laid its egg in sand.
Pachycephalosaurus Wyomingenesis
Time lived: 145.5-4 million years ago, Cretaceous Period
Description: Height: 10 feet, Length: 18 feet, Weight: 4,000 pounds. Their skull was 9 inches thick.
Food Preference: Plants
Habitat: Lowlands with plenty of plant life
Triceratops
My dinosaur's name is the Triceratops. The name means "three horned face." This is a plant eating dinosaur that had four legs and walked slow. They had five toes and a short tail. They were 7 feet tall and 30 feet long and 10 to 12 tons. This dinosaur was one of the last to die, about 65 millions years ago. This dinosaur is one of the most famous and is found in most museums.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex (The Tyrant Lizard King) lived about 65-85 million years ago, mainly in humid, semitropical places. The T-Rex was up to 40 feet tall. It weighed from 5 to 7 tons, had a huge head, tiny arms with two fingers on each, walked on two legs and each foot had three large toes with claws. They had from 50 to 60 thick, bone crunching teeth. As teeth were broken, new ones grew in its place. The T-Rex was one of the biggest meat eating dinosaurs. It could eat up to 500 pounds of meat and bones in one bite. Triceratops were hunted and eaten by T-Rex.
Pterodactyl
Time lived: 228 to 65 millions years ago
Description: They were lightly built with hollow bones, long skulls and small bodies. At least sixty types lived. They were as samll as the smallest birds to as big as having a wing span of forty feet.
Food preference: Fish, mollusks, crabs, insects and dead animals.
Habitat: North America, Europe, Africa and Australia
Brachiosuarus
Time Lived: Upper Jurassic Period
Description: Four legged plant eater. It is in the Sauropod family. It is one of the largest animals to ever walk the Earth.
Food preference: Plant eater, eats tree tops and ferns.
Habitat: Prairies filled with ferns and horsetails.
Hypacrosaurus
When it lived: Late Cretaceous, 68-76 millions years ago
Food preference: It was an herbivore meaning it ate only plants.
Habitat: It lived in North America near what is now Montana.
Name Meaning: "near the highest lizard" because it was almost as large as a T-Rex.
The Hypacrosaurus was about 30 feet long (4 Herbies) and weighed about 9,000 pounds (4 1/2 Herbies)
Herbie= VW Bug
Brachiosaurus
I lived almost 156 million years ago.
I am one of the heaviest & longest dinosaurs.
Me and my friends lived in Wyoming, Colorado & Utah.
I am not friends with dinosaurs that eat meat. Because I am so big, other dinosaurs don't bother me. I can whip them away with me tail.
My front legs are longer than my back legs and my skin feels like leather.
I am 30-50 tons and 82 feet tall.
I weigh as much as 10 elephants.
I have to eat 440 lbs. of food every day, so I eat all day.
I do not eat meat. I love to eat trees, plants and ferns.
The Apatosaurus aka Brontosaurus lived in the late Jurassic period, 157-146 million years ago. The Apatosaurus was one of the largest land animals that ever existed. It was 75 feet long! The tail helped to balance the heavy body. The Apatosaurus had nostrils on top of its head, which was thought to be used in water, but that was found to be false. There was one claw on the front legs and claws on the first three toes of the back legs.
Food preference: Only ate tree leaves and ferms. Apatosaurus was a herbivore.
Habitat: Land animal. They lived in North America in Colorado and Oklahoma.
Brachiosaurus
Time lived: Late Jurassic Period
Description: The Brachiosuarus lived 150 million years ago. They were the biggest dinosaur. They were 50 feet tall and 85 feet long. They walked very slow on four legs.
Food preference: They were herbivores, which means they ate plants.
Habitat: They lived in America and Africa in swamp areas.
Brontosaurus (Thunder Lizard)
Time lived: 140 million years ago, Jurassic period
Description: The Brontosaurus was one of the largest land animals ever! It had a long neck and a big tail. It would crack its tail like a whip and make a sound louder than a canon! It weighed up to 25 tons and was up to 75 feet long.
Food Preference: It ate more than 700 pounds of plants every day.
Habitat: Swamps and forests. Bones were found in Colorado and Utah.
Stegosaurus
Time lived: Late Jurassic period, about 156-140 million years ago.
Description: The Stegosurus was up to 26 to 30 feet long. They weighed about 6,800 pounds, but their brain was about the size of a walnut. The spikes on their back protected them from predators.
Food Preference: Herbivore (Plant eater) ferns and mosses
Habitat: North America, Western Europe, India and China
Tyrannosaurs Rex - Known as "King of the Tyrant Lizards"
This big strong dinosaur was in the Cretaceous period. This was the biggest meat eating dinosaur. It ate large dinosaurs. He was twenty-five feet tall and measured fifty feet from nose to tail. He lived in forests. His teeth were 6 inches long. His brain was as big as a bird. He looked like a huge monster. He used to stand on his hind legs and he had two tiny hands in the front. He dragged his tail along with him. He slept on the ground.
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Tyrannosaurus Rex, which means "Tyrant Lizard" is the most famous dinosaurs and is often called T-Rex for short. T-Rex is believed to have been a fierce predator. T-Rex grew to about 20 feet tall and 40 feet long. T-Rex weighed 5 to 7 tons. T-Rex roamed the Earth 68 to 65 million years ago. T-Rex was one of the last dinosaurs to become extinct. T-Rex was believed to have roamed North America. T-Rex had little claws. They had two fingers on each hand. Their arm length grew to about 3 feet. T-Rex walked on its toes. T-Rex had two long muscular legs. T-Rex jaw was up to 4 feet long, and it had 50 to 60 thick, long teeth that could crush bones. They could eat up to 500 pounds of meat and bone in one bite. T-Rex had alligator like skin. It was rubbery and cold in texture.
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