Oh, How Young Kids Love Dinosaurs! Here Are 33 Web Pages About Dinosaurs

When I worked as a media specialist in an elementary school, the most popular section  was 567.9, the Dewey number for dinosaurs. Most of the time it was a boy who checked out the dinosaur book, although now and again a girl asked for one. I even had a kindergartener who only wanted books on dinosaurs. Week after week he took another book from the section until there were no more left for him to choose. Today, dinosaurs are still very popular in the elementary or middle school library. Here are some resources to get you started:

Best Books For Teaching About Dinosaurs- from Education World

Billy Bear's Land O' Dinosaurs- story with links

Books About Dinosaurs-books here for kids and teachers (reference books)

Books About Dinosaurs- from Barnes and Noble; reviews online

Child Dinosaur Books

Dinobuzz- current topics concerning dinosaurs

Dinosaur Central- Dino viewer from Discovery

Dinosaur Crafts- from Enchanted Learning

Dinosaur Floor- why dinosaurs are extinct

Dinosaur Games and Coloring Pages

Dinosaur Hall- The Academy of Natural Sciences

Dinosaur Lesson Plans- from Lesson Plans Page

Dinosaur Safari- The UnMuseum of UnNatural History

Dinosaurs: Fact or Fiction

Dinosaurs and Fossils Encyberpedia

Dino Dictionary- dinosaurs from A to Z

Dino Time Machine- fun, facts, books, toys

Dinobuzz- topics which concern dinosaurs

Dinodig-online games

Dinopedia- a wiki about prehistoric life

Dinosaur Clip Art

Dinosaur Crafts

Dinosaur Eggs Museum

Dinosaur Songs

Dinosaur Webquest

The Division of Paleontology- American Museum of Natural History

Enchanted Learning-lots of fun!

Great Dinosaur Books for Kids- from Amazon.com; reviews online

National History Museum- (England)

Printable Dinosaur Worksheets- from TeAchnology

Sue at the Field Museum- The largest, most complete, best preserved T. rex

Take a Closer Look at Bizarre Dinosaurs- interactive from National Geographic

Tyrannosaurus Rex Coloring Page

77 Online Museums

Taken at the Museum of Tolerance

Here's a pretty extensive listing of museums for you to use in your curriculum. I've covered subject areas of art, culture, history, natural history, science, technology and miscellaneous. Please add any suggestions you have to the comments section.


Art and Our Culture
Art Institute of Chicago

Artsonia- world's largest art museum for young artists; this is an excellent place "to post and find student art"; all graphics are done by students.

Bling Universe- art museum in Maryland

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Denver Art Museum

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Fowler Museum at UCLA

J. Paul Getty Museum

Louvre Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Musee d'Orsay-very large galleries

Museo Nacional Del Prado- Madrid, Spain

Museum of Fine Arts- Boston, MA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)- multimedia site

Museum of Tolerance

National Archeological Museum of Athens

National Gallery of Art- online tours of the Washington, DC museum

National Museum of Women in the Arts- more than 3,000 works from the 16th century to the present

National Portrait Gallery: London- digital history resources

Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery- houses 12,000 records

State Hermitage Museum- St. Petersburg, Russia

Tate Online- British & International Modern Art

Vatican Collections Online-virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel

History
American Memory Historical Collections

The Anne Frank Museum

The British Museum

Colonial Williamsburg Museums

Conner Prairie Interactive History Park- Indiana

The Hermitage- located in Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ
Imperial War Museum

Museum of Tolerance

National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum

National Museum of the American Indian

Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum

Salem Witch Museum

The Secret Annex- Anne Frank's hiding place

Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza- tribute to John F. Kennedy
Smithsonian Institution

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum


Miscellaneous
American Red Cross Museum

The Freud Museum (London)

Mathematics Museum (Japan)
National Inventors Hall of Fame

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking

Natural History
American Museum of Natural History

The Archaeology Channel

Canadian Museum of Nature

Museum of Paleontology- Univ. of California, Berkeley

Natural History Museum- Los Angeles County- activities and programs; teacher resources

Natural History Museum of Florence University- botanical

Nature Online- Natural History Museum; London

Ology at the American Museum of Natural History- for young children

University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural History-virtual tour


Science and Technology
Computer History Museum

Exploratorium- this is a hands on science museum which has online versions of some of their exhibit

The Field Museum-several permanent exhibits

The Franklin Institute Online

IEEE Virtual Museum-the history of electronics, electricity and computers

Imagination Station Science Museum

Kennedy Space Center

Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Science

MIT Museum- multimedia

Museum of Broadcast Communications

Museum of Flight

Museum of Science-Boston

Museum of Science and Industry- Chicago

NASA for Students

National Air and Space Museum- Smithsonian

The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television and Radio)

Robotics- part of the Tech Museum

San Diego Aerospace Museum

Science Museum of Minnesota-online activities

The Tech Museum

Try Science- virtual field trips for kids

Wilbur R. Enns Entomology Museum