Mike Tuke’s
DINOSAUR
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Dinosaurs
Weighing a dinosaur
A P F 15 min
Students find the volume of a replica dinosaur made to scale (available in many museums)
by immersing it in a displacement can. It is then necessary to convert this volume to the
volume of the full sized animal. As all animals have a density of about 1g per cc the volume
in cc can be converted directly into weight in grams and then into tons.
Dinosaur tracks at your school
A P F 30 min
Make a dinosaur trackway at your school so that your students can make deductions
about height, type of dinosaur etc from it. Take a piece of hardboard 45cm square and
cut from it the shape of a dinosaur footprint.
Use the outline to spray brown paint onto a concrete surface or onto grass in the pattern
of a trackway.
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