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Dinosaurs: Giants of the Past Inventory List Please Use This List to Check Off Items Before Returning the Kit to Milner Library Dinosaurs: Giants of the Past Inventory List Please use this list to check off items before returning the kit to Milner Library. Box – Part 1 Audiocassettes and CDs (in pkg w/videos) Dinosaur Rock Most Amazing Dinosaur Songs (CD) Thunderfeet: Alaska’s Dinosaurs (has matching book) Books The Age of Dinosaurs Archaeopteryx The Children’s Picture Prehistory: Dinosaurs Colossal Fossils: Dinosaur Riddles The Day of the Dinosaurs: The Detective Story of Earth’s Prehistoric Giants Dinosaur Discovery Dinosaur Mysteries Dinosaurs (A New True Book) Dinosaurs Activity Book Dinosaurs: Pictures, Facts, Activities The Dinosaurs: A New Discovery Discover Dinosaurs (Activity Books) Eyewitness Books: Dinosaur The Fossil Hunters The Glow-In-the-Dark Book of Dinosaur Skeletons Graveyards of the Dinosaurs How Big is a Brachiosaurus? Fascinating Facts About Dinosaurs If the Dinosaurs Came Back The Last Dinosaur Maia: A Dinosaur Grows Up My Dinosaur Naturescope: Digging Into Dinosaurs Ranger Rick’s Dinosaur Book Teacher’s Manual (red 3-ring binder) Thunderfeet: Alaska’s Dinosaurs (has matching video) Tyrannosaurus Magazines National Geographic (3 individual binders, 4 articles total) Newsweek (1 article) Ranger Rick (2 individual binders, 3 articles total) Mounted Pictures (in pkg w/small pictures) Bricket & Taranter 1 | Dinosaurs Giants of the Past Inventory List Mounted Pictures cont’d Crackbeak Cribrum, Plunger, Soar & Sift Cutlasstooth, Crackbeak, Sprintosaur & Balaclav Gwanna, Tree Hopper, Non-Crested Sprintosaur, Gestalt & Pouch Northclaw, Kloon & Wyrm Sandle, Lank, Harridan & Taranter Realia Dinosaur Cookie Cutters (box of 6) Dinosaur Paddle Masks (6) Dinosaur Sandpaper Rubbings (13) Large Dinosaur Table Cover Tyrannosaurus Rex (plastic toy) Small Pictures (in pkg w/mounted pictures) Eggs and Nest (Protoceratops in Gobi Desert) (Mongolia) Mosasaurus Protoceratops Fighting w/Raptor in Gobi Desert Pterosaurs (flying reptiles) Compared to Plane Reptile Giants Ruled the Ocean Small Mammals Crawling Over Dead Triceratops (dinosaur extinction) Videos Dinosaurs: A Fun-Filled Trip Back in Time (30 mins.) Dinosaurs: Puzzles From the Past (20 mins.) Box – Part 2 Books Amazing Dinosaur Facts (Golden Books) Digging Up Dinosaurs The Dinosaur Question & Answer Book Dinosaur World (Price Stern Sloan, Inc.) Dinosaurs (poems) (selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins) Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures Dinosaurs Are Different Dinosaurs Big and Small (Honey Bear Books) Dinosaurs: The Fastest, the Fiercest, the Most Amazing A First Look at Dinosaurs Fun With Dinosaurs (Activity Book) The Great Dinosaur Atlas The Great Dinosaur Poster Book If Dinosaurs Were Cats and Dogs 2 | Dinosaurs Giants of the Past Inventory List Books cont’d Prehistoric Zoobooks: Family Activity Guide The Usborne Book of Prehistoric Facts Zoobooks: Dinosaurs (blue binder) Magazines Cricket (1 article) Realia Allosaurus Dinosaur Claw (replica) Apatosaurus Floor Puzzle (23 pieces) Dinosaur Coprolite (fossil feces or droppings) (authentic) Dinosaur Puzzle Cards (55, small box) Plastic Dinosaur Models (11) (10 from British Museum) (in Field Museum bag) - Brachiosaurus (green, large) - Diplodocus (gray) - Edaphosaurus (red & yellow) (not from British Museum) - Iguanodon (yellow/mustard) - Megalosaurus (green, small) - Plesiosaur (blue) - Pteranodon (tan) - Scelidosaurus (dark brown) - Stegosaurus (pinkish brown) - Triceratops (grayish brown) - Tyrannosaurus (maroon) Stuffed Dinosaur Toy and Triceratops Stuffed Toy Model (in 1 pkg) Triceratops Dinosaur Head Shield Frill Section (authentic) Tyrannosaurus Floor Puzzle (48 pieces) Tyrannosaurus Rex Vinyl Footprints (6) and Explanatory Chart (blue binder) Bag – Part 3 Books The Big Book of Dinosaurs (extra large book) Maps Dinosaurs Mounted Pictures Albertosaurus Attacking Horned Dinosaurs Dinosaur (Triceratops Skull, Info on Claws & Teeth) Iguanadon, Pterodactylus, Hypsilophodon, Pelorosaurus, Megalosaurus & Polacanthus Rhamphorhynchus, Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus & Apatosaurus Stegosaurus, Camptosaurus, Allosaurus & Ornitholestes 3 | Dinosaurs Giants of the Past Inventory List Mounted Pictures cont’d Tyrannosaurus, Corythosaurus, Pentaceratops, Parasaurolophus & Euoplocephalus Parasaurolophus & Ankylosaurus (in the water) Protoceratops Huddled Together in the Gobi Desert The Ultimate Guide To a T. Rex Named Sue Posters Age of Dinosaurs Dinosaur Cards (24 pictures of various dinosaurs, info on back of cards) Dinosaur Giants! North American Dinosaurs of the Jurassic Period Dinosaurs: Ancient Ancestors of the Living Zoobooks Family Dinosaurs (small) (panorama pictures of dinosaurs w/names and lengths) Dinosaurs Alive! North American Dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Period Dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Period Dinosaurs of the Jurassic Period Geological Time and the History of Life in North America I Love Dinosaurs (3 dinosaurs eating) I Love Dinosaurs (Allosaurus w/black background) Mamenchiasaurus From China/ Albertosaurus and Prey A New View of Dinosaurs/ The March Toward Extinction North America In the Age of Dinosaurs/ Dawn On the Delta Pterosaurs: Flying Reptiles Tyrannosaurus: Be a Time Traveler – Read a Book What Is a Dinosaur? Realia Dinosaur Growth Chart 4 | Dinosaurs Giants of the Past Inventory List .
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