Review: DIGGING UP DINOSAURS by Aliki

3.57 STARS from 174 GoodReaders

DIGGING UP DINOSAURS covers a lot of ground, but most of the focus is on how dinosaur fossils get out of the earth and into the museum.

The book touches upon dinosaur diversity. How they could be small and large, etc. It then briefly tells children about the history of discovery. How people found strange bones that they couldn't classify, and how this lead to theories and finally the discovery of dinosaurs.  Teachers and parents can use this part of the book to teach how scientist develop theories.

DIGGING UP DINOSAURS also introduces, very briefly, how sedimentary fossils happen.

What young readers will probably find most interesting are the pages which describe and show paleontologists in the field. How they dig up fossils, prepare them for shipment to the museum, and how at the museum the bones are classified and then stored after molds are made.

SUMMARY

Chock-a-block full of snippets and introductory material. This book gives children a good overview to how people 'discovered' dinosaurs, and how dinosaur fossils make their way from the ground to the displays they see in museums.

Pam~


DIGGING UP DINOSAURS
(Let's Read and Find Out Science 2)
by Aliki Liacouras Brandenberg 

Reading Information:
Word Count: 854
Page Count: 32
Accelerated Reader: 3.6 / points: 0.5
AR quiz: 9763
Lexile: 490L
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