Sixth grade students at Echo Valley Elementary School in Salinas, CA participated in the Western Flyer Foundation Science Illustration Mentorship Program. They learned how to draw dinosaurs and they learned that modern birds descended from dinosaurs.
It looked like a duck-headed dinosaur.
I learned that Sinosauropteryx are very old!
I learned how to draw the Ornithomimus!
Ornithomimus
I learned that Ornithomimus had feathers.
I learned that Ornithomimus existed.
This is a dinosaur bird.
I learned that birds are dinosaurs.
I learned that birds are related to dinosaurs.
I learned that Ornithomimus is called “bird mimic”.
I learned how to draw a Sinosauropteryx.
Today I learned about a new animal called an Ornithomimus.
The Sinosauropteryx had feathers!
I learned that the Sinosauropteryx had countershading.
I learned that this dinosaur looks more like a bird.
I learned that their necks were long and they could reach trees.
Some birds are dinosaurs.
I learned that dinosaurs could be birds.
This dinosaur is a bird!
I learned that the Sinosauropteryx is an early bird. I also learned that it uses its feathers for warmth and camouflage.
They are a type of bird.
I learned that Sinosauropteryx was a carnivore.
I learned they had big feathers.
Ornithomimus had down feathers.
I learned that Sinosauropteryx had very warm feathers.
I learned that a Sinosauropteryx is real!
I learned that the name means bird mimic.
Today I learned about a new animal called Sinosauropteryx.
