Challenge #1 - READ!
Read over the summer and earn a reward. Turn in a reading log. To complete this challenge, you need 60 minutes of reading or being read to if you're in K-2nd grade.

Challenge #2 - WRITE
Use the Create a Dinosaur Story page to write a story. Be sure to put your own name in the name line. After you finish reading the story, copy it and send it to us

Challenge #3 - LIBRARY CATALOG SEARCH

Go to the library online catalog and do a search for dinosaurs. Send us the name and call number for a library book about dinosaurs. (Remember, you can always find the library, and a link to the catalog, at library.santacatalina.org)

Challenge #4 - COLOR

You can color these dinosaur pages right on the screen, or print the picture and use your own colors. Press the PrintScrn button and paste the colored picture into your email, or mail or bring it to the library

Challenge #5 - ALPHABETIZE

Here are eight dinosaurs. Put their names in alphabetical order.

• Nanosaurus (one of the smallest North American dinosaurs - about as big as a turkey)
• Apatosaurus (a giant plant eater)
• Iguanodon (a small plant eater that walked on two legs)
• Triceratops (had three horns on its face)
• Monoclonius (had one horn and a short frill around its neck)
• Stegosaurus (had two rows of bony plates from neck to tail)
• Daspletosaurus (a two-legged meat eater with short arms - like T.rex)
• Velociraptor (a small, fast meat eater)

Get the alphabetical list to the library somehow.

Challenge #6 - DINOSAUR MATH

Do the Zoom Dinosaurs Math #5. Add up the numbers, substitute the letters for the numbers and send me the name of the dinosaur.

Challenge #7 - SEND A DINOSAUR E-CARD

Create a Posty and send it to scslibrarian@hotmail.com. Write 2 sentences about dinosaurs in the Message box. Be sure your name is included so we can give you credit for the challenge.

Challenge #8 - DINOSAUR RECORDS

Send the library the answers to these two questions:

1. Which dinosaur had the longest neck?
2. What was the name of the woman who discovered the first dinosaur?

Use this dinosaur record webpage to find the answers.

Challenge #9 - CORRESPOND

Write a letter to the librarian about this Summer Library Club. What was good? What was bad? What would you want to change? Did you learn anything about dinosaurs? Did you learn anything about the library? Answer at least three of these quesstions.

Challenge #1 - READ!
Read over the summer and earn a reward. Turn in a reading log. To complete this challenge, you need 90 minutes of reading or being read to if you're in 3rd-5th grade.

Challenge #2 - ADVENTURE
Take a fossil collecting trip by computer along with some scientists from the University of California. Have an Adventure at Dry Creek. Keep going until you can get a postcard to send me. To do it online, copy and paste it in the email to me.

Challenge #3 - Do the Math

HOW BIG WAS THAT DINOSAUR?

Use the following data to estimate how big each of the dinosaurs was in terms of cars or school buses.
A car is about 15 feet long, and a bus is about 40 feet long.
Example: Supersaurus (140 feet long) was longer than 3 buses.

DINOSAUR	LENGTH
Argentinosaurus	130 feet
Diplodocus or Apatosaurus	90 feet
Tyrannosaurus rex	40 feet
Triceratops or Maiasaura or Parasaurolophus	30 feet
Stegosaurus	25 feet
Utahraptor	20 feet
Oviraptor or Velociraptor	6 feet
Compsognathus	3 feet

Send the library the answers to the following questions:

1. Which dinosaur was about the length of 2 cars?
2. Which dinosaur was longer than 3 buses? (Not Supersaurus, that's the example.)
3. Which dinosaur was only a bit longer than 2 buses?
4. Which dinosaur was shorter than half of 1 car?
5. Which dinosaur was about the length of 1 bus?

Send us a list with the answers to all five questions.

Challenge #4 - DECODING DINOSAUR NAMES

Most dinosaur names are created by scientists by combining Latin and Greek word roots. Using the table of descriptors below, you can see that a velociraptor can be decoded as a speedy thief (veloci is speedy or fast and raptor is thief). Using the references below, decode at least 3 of the following 5 dinosaur names:

• Brachiosaurus
• Tyrannosaurus Rex
• Ceratops
• Segnosaurus
• Macrophalangia

Greek and Latin Descriptors

REFERENCES
Borror, Donald J., 1960, Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms. Palo Alto, California: Mayfield, 1960.
Munsart, Craig A., Investigating Science With Dinosaurs. Englewood, Colorado: Teacher Ideas Press, 1994.
Norman, David. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. New York: Crown, 1985.

Challenge #5 - ENCYCLOPEDIA SEARCH

Use the library's Britannica Elementary Encylopedia and answer three of the following questions:

• How long ago did dinosaurs die out?
• What is the name of the oldest know dinosaur?
• If a dinosaur had teeth like small and flat molars, what did it eat?
• What descendants of dinosaurs are living today?

Challenge #6 - BUY SOME DINOSAUR STAMPS

Many countries have postage stamps with dinosuars on them. Add up the numbers on all the dinosaur stamps from Australia, Canada and the United States. (Use this website to find them.) What is the total? (We won't make you convert the Austalian or Canadian cents. Just add up all the dollars and cents as if they were U.S. money.)

Challenge #7 - BONE UP

You're on a dig and you discover the incomplete skeleton of a dinosaur. What do you think the dinosaur looked like? Pick one of the two illustrations: Dinosaur 1 or Dinosaur 2. Open the image with your computer drawing program or insert it in a Word document. Draw and color what you think the dinosaur would look like around the bones you have.

Challenge #8 - DINOSAUR CROSSWORD

Complete the Dinosaurcross and get a copy to the library.

Challenge #9 - CORRESPOND

Write a letter to the librarian about this Summer Library Club. What was good? What was bad? What would you want to change? Did you learn anything about dinosaurs? Did you learn anything about the library? Answer at least three of these quesstions.

Challenge #1 - READ!
Read over the summer and earn a reward. Turn in a reading log. To complete this challenge, you need 90 minutes of reading or being read to if you're in 6th - 8th grade.

Challenge #2 - PALEONTOLOGIST TRADING CARD
Use Gale's Biography Resource Center and Trading Card Maker to create a trading card for one of the following paleontologists:

• Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
• Mary Anning (1799-1847)
• Othniel Marsh (1831-1899)
• Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897)
• Roy C. Andrews (1884-1960)
• Robert Bakker (1945 - )

Find a picture of the scientist or one of the discoveries, names, dates and a few important facts:
Where did they carry out their fieldwork?
What are their major discoveries?
What theories do (or did) they support?
What technology aided them in their work?

Challenge #3 - NAME THAT DINOSAUR

Dinosaur names are frequently created from Latin and Greek roots that are strung together to describe the dinosaur. Tri (from the Latin for 3) cerat (Greek for horn) ops (Greek for face). Imagine you have just found a new dinosaur and you get to name it. Put together a descriptive name from the table of name parts and send the name and description.

Challenge #4 - DINOSAUR LOGIC

Go to the Fossil Hunt pdf. Our logic problem has some kids hunting fossils in Montana. Send the answers to us..

Challenge #5 - NOTE

Read a 50-page or longer non-fiction book about dinosaurs, fossils or paleontologists. Write notes of three interesting facts; add a citation for the book; get it to the library. (The Lower School Library webpage has guidelines and samples for citations.)

Challenge #6 - T. REX MATH

Find the Tyrannosaurus Rex stamps from around the world on this stamp site. Convert the cost of each stamp to what it would cost to buy that stamp in U.S. dollars on Jan 1, 2009. Send us a total of what it would cost to buy one of each or the T.Rex stamps for your stamp collection.
Important tips: Senegal's unit of money is the CFA Franc BCEAO, Montserrat's is the East Caribbean Dollar, Kyrgyzstan and Georgia use Euros, and Central African Republic's currency is the CFA Franc BEAC. And did you catch that Madagascar's money is the Malagasy franc?

Challenge #7 - DINOSAUR WORD SEARCH

Complete the Dinosaur Word Search for dinosaur names. Use PrintScrn to get a copy you can send to me.

Challenge #8 - DINOSAUR DISCOVERY TIMELINE

Use this time line maker to create a timeline of six dinosaur discoveries (like - 1922 - Mantell discovers Iguanodon tooth). You can use either horizontal or vertical. You may want to use some of the websites we list under the Dinosaurs tab at the top of this page to get your facts.Use PrintScrn to get a copy you can send to me.

Challenge #9 - CORRESPOND

Write a letter to the librarian about this Summer Library Club. What was good? What was bad? What would you want to change? Did you learn anything about dinosaurs? Did you learn anything about the library? Answer at least three of these quesstions.