Homeschooling Science:

Dinosaur Kids Activity

Homeschooling science is fun with our dinosaur kids activity! This is the second part of the greatest science story ever told: the history of Life on Earth.

We'll draw dinosaurs, download maps and articles, uncover a freshly laid dinosaur egg and keep a pet Triops to see first-hand a creature that existed in the age of the dinosaurs.

You can see the start of our dinosaur kids activity here:

As you'll see, this homeschooling science activity is for anyone aged about 7 up to even Rob's age (which is older than me!). You can adapt the project to High School level just by increasing the depth of science involved.

In this dinosaur kids activity you'll make a display about the history of Life on Earth and save the cost of wallpaper by covering your walls with drawings, articles, maps, dioramas, pop-outs and even pieces of coal!

One of the exciting things about this dinosaur kids activity is that you can actually keep abreast of the frontiers of science. After all, some of the greatest minds are at this very moment in the process of discovering even more fascinating parts of the Story of Life on Earth.

Newspaper articles and the internet are a great way of adding to this homeschooling dinosaur kids activity. You could start getting together news items about the latest fossil dinosaur discovery. If you download some pictures they'll help liven up your display.

How exciting for your children to be at the cutting edge of scientific discovery themselves as they find out about Kosmoceratops, who put Triceratops in the shade by having 15 horns?

As we've seen, if your kids love drawing then you've got a great way to start this homeschooling activity. It's a fantastic way to really appreciate the creatures that once lived here. Catherine's had a go at this Basilosaurus:

I have to say it was the biting and killing aspect which really appealed in this dinosaur kids activity...absolutely no reflection on William and Catherine of course!

Once you've had a go at drawing some of the creatures that lived here you could add some geography to your homeschooling science curriculum.

Wikipedia has some beautiful maps you can download showing how the Earth's continents have moved over time. Catherine chose this one because she thought you'd like to see what the world looked like in the time of the dinosaurs:

Homeschooling is all about waking interest and bringing science to life.

Dinosaur Kids

One way of involving younger children in this dinosaur kids homeschooling activity is to see if they'd like to make a dinosaur egg.

Marbling is one of those easy and fun activities which you can add in to make homeschooling more fun.

Just add a few drops of different coloured marbling inks to water and dip in your egg. We used a hen's egg (with yolk and white blown out) for its extra life-like quality, but you can buy plastic eggs which marble up very well.

You can then glue your freshly laid dinosaur egg down, draw a nest around it and put a mother Maiasura above. Who said homeschooling lesson plans can't be unique!

If you want more reality, another homeschooling activity your kids might enjoy is hatching a real egg and watching a live creature from the age of the dinosaurs.

Triop kits are inexpensive and fascinating. They're just a box containing Triops eggs laid among detritus. You sprinkle the magic dust on top of rainwater and leave the eggs to hatch.

Rob and I, (never mind the children), were thrilled to see homeschooling science come to life as, out of an invisible speck, a horseshoe crab-like figure appeared, whose ancestors had evolved back in the time of the dinosaurs.

If your children would like to try another activity for homeschooling science, we'll be covering fossil hunting and lots more besides in the last part of our dinosaur kids activity:

And another great way to add to your homeschool science is with some homeschooling field trips. There are lots of great places to visit; I spotted the Los Angeles county Natural History Museum has a great dinosaur hall!

Our dinosaur kids activity probably has a fitting end with this water colour of the arrival of early Man.

Wouldn't it be great if our homeschooling science activities help show our children what makes this Planet such an amazing place to treasure?

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