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You’ve travelled back in time and had the most amazing encounter of your life: a real dinosaur steps out of the ancient forest and stares right at you. Your heart is pounding, but your curiosity wins. You pull out your field notebook, ready to record everything before the moment disappears.

Create a Field Guide Entry for any dinosaur you choose.

It can be a well-known one, like a T. rex or Stegosaurus, or a completely new species you invent. Include:

• Dinosaur Name: real or imagined
• Diet: what it eats and how it finds food
• Habitat: where it lives
• Behavior: how it moves, hunts, hides, protects itself, or interacts
• Interesting Feature: one thing that makes this dinosaur unforgettable
• Finish by drawing a labelled diagram of your dinosaur in its natural environment, with arrows or notes explaining key details.

What characteristics do you notice about this dinosaur in the image?

How do you think dinosaurs were able to find food in their environment?

What types of habitats do you think different dinosaurs lived in?

How might this dinosaur protect itself from predators?

What unique features have scientists discovered in dinosaurs?

How do you think this dinosaur might have moved through its habitat?

What foods do you think were available to dinosaurs in ancient forests?

How might dinosaurs have communicated or interacted with each other?

What would you name a new species of dinosaur you discover?

What tools or methods could you use to record your observations if you encountered a dinosaur?