| Activity | Episode | Learning Goal | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meeting Modern Dinosaurs – Birds! | Episode 120: The Old Bird / Home with Shiny & Don | Science; Math; Nature | Learn how to encourage your child to observe, document, and identify different types of birds. |
| Make a Stegosaurus Puppet | Episode 115: The Old Spinosaurus & the Sea / A Spiky Tail Tale | Science; Art | Help your child understand some possible purposes of dinosaur spikes and tails. |
| Make a Maiasaura Nest and Eggs | Episode 135: The Good Mom / Hornucopia | Science; Animals; Art | Help your child learn that different dinosaur species had different sized eggs. |
| Make a Dragonfly | Episode 111: Derek the Deinonychus / Don's Dragonfly | Science; Animals; Art | Help your child learn some basic insect anatomy. |
| Have a Brachiosaurus Picnic | Episode 110: Laura the Giganotosaurus / Dinosaur Poop! | Science; Cooking; Phys. Ed. | Help your child prepare a vegetarian (herbivore) picnic. |
| Gardening for Birds | Episode 204: Shiny and Snakes / Tiny Loves Flowers | Science; Animals | Attract migrating birds to your home with a container garden. |
| Footprints and Trackways | Episode 119: King Cryolophosaurus / Buddy the Tracker | Science; Nature; Art | Help your child learn about the different kinds of footprints that animals leave behind. |
| Eruption! | Episode 124: Erma Eoraptor / Under the Volcano | Science; Nature | Help your child understand how a volcano forms and what causes it to erupt. |
| Edible Bird Feeder | Episode 120: The Old Bird / Home with Shiny & Don | Science; Animals | Make a homemade bird feeder to hang outside your window or in a tree by your home. |
| Drawing Birds | Episode 110: Laura the Giganotosaurus / Dinosaur Poop! | Science; Art | Help your child learn the names of different parts of a bird they observe. |
| Dinosaur Hand Shadows | Episode 135: The Good Mom / Hornucopia | Science; Art | Help your child learn and create the shape of various dinosaurs. |
| Collect a Critter | Episode121: Dinosaur Camoflauge / Family Scavenger Hunt | Science; Animals | Help your child observe and appreciate insects and other small (safe) wild animals in your area. |
| Camouflage Cloak | Episode121: Dinosaur Camoflauge / Family Scavenger Hunt | Science; Animals; Art | Help your child understand how animals use camouflage to hide. |
| Bird Beak Buffet | Episode 120: The Old Bird / Home with Shiny & Don | Science; Animals | Experiment with different utensils and explore each tool's capacity to pick up assorted food objects. |
| All Aboard! It’s a Dino Breakfast | Episode 125: Pteranodon Family World Tour / Gilbert the Junior Conductor | Science; Math; Cooking; Literacy | Help your child learn how to prepare a special dinosaur-themed breakfast. |
| Playing Dino Ball Your Way | Episode 109: Armored Like an Ankylosaurus/Campout! | Teamwork; Sportsmanship | Invent the rules for an imaginary game featured in Dinosaur Train - Dino Ball! |
| Hungry Herbivores | Episode 102: The Call of the Wild Corythosaurus/Triceratops for Lunch | Animals; Categorization; Food; Art | Learn what an herbivore is, then create and compare two collages. |
| Even Bigger Than a T. Rex! | Episode 104: I'm a T-Rex! / Ned the Quadruped | Science; Measurement; Comparison | Comprehend the size of some gigantic dinosaurs. |
| Dinosaurs of a Feather | Episode 106: Fast Friends/T. Rex Teeth | Comparison; Observation; Birds | Learn about feathers and create a 3-D picture of what a feathered Velociraptor might have looked like. |
| Dinosaurs A to Z | Episode 105: One Smart Dinosaur / Petey the Peteinosaurus | Alphabet; Diversity | Practice the letters of the alphabet while learning about the diversity of dinosaurs. |
| A Colorful Hypothesis | Episode 101: Valley of the Stygimolochs / Tiny Loves Fish | Colors; Scientific process; Vocabulary | Apply the term "hypothesis," and investigate the science of color. |
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