Summary
“What Happened to the Dinosaurs?” is a short SciShow Kids science video for the K–5 classroom. It explores ancient life and the fossil clues it left behind. Quick to drop into a science lesson, a center, or a few spare minutes before the bell.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
This video explores dinosaurs, fossils, or ancient life and what they tell us.
- What ancient living thing does this video explore?
- How do scientists learn about animals that lived long ago?
- What can a fossil tell us that a photo can't?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: fossil, dinosaur, extinct, ancient, evidence.
Try it: Press a small object into clay to make your own 'fossil' and have a partner guess what made it.