Activity: Dinosaur challenge with MC Grammar

Your class joins MC Grammar as he investigates the Natural History Museum and finds out about dinosaurs.

Key Stage: KS2
Time required: Video - 15 minutes in total. Quiz and dinosaur rap activity: 10-15 minutes

Dinosaur: True or Poo!

Can you work out if these statements are true or poo (false)?

The class can give a thumbs up if they think true or thumbs down if they think poo.

All dinosaurs lived at the same time
Pterodactyls are dinosaurs
Dinosaurs had upright legs, other reptiles have sprawling legs (out to the side)
All dinosaurs were carnivores (meat eaters)
Triceratops had three horns
T. rex teeth could be as big as bananas

Check your answers
All dinosaurs lived at the same time - FALSE

Pterodactyls are dinosaurs - FALSE

Dinosaurs had upright legs, other reptiles have sprawling legs (out to the side) - TRUE

All dinosaurs were carnivores (meat eaters) - FALSE

Triceratops had three horns - TRUE

T. rex teeth could be as big as bananas - TRUE

Rhyme Time!

Can you make a dinosaur poem or rap? Here are some words that rhyme to help get you started! Can you think of anymore?

Claw and roar
Scales and tails
Herbivore and dinosaur
Courageous and cretaceous
Fossil and colossal
Extinct and linked
Jurassic and fantastic

About this resource

Resource type: video, activity, quiz
Theme: Rocks, fossils and dinosaurs

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