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 the name means bird mimic.
I learned how to draw a Sinosauropteryx.
I learned they had big feathers.
Today I learned about a new animal called Sinosauropteryx.
I learned that Sinosauropteryx are very old!
Ornithomimus had down feathers.
I learned that Sinosauropteryx had very warm feathers.
Some birds are dinosaurs.
They use their feathers to attract females.
I learned that a Sinosauropteryx is real!
I learned that the Sinosauropteryx is an early bird. I also learned that it uses its feathers for warmth and camouflage.
I learned that their necks were long and they could reach trees.
They are a type of bird.
I learned that the Sinosauropteryx had countershading.
This is a dinosaur bird.
I learned that birds are dinosaurs.
Today I learned about a new animal called an Ornithomimus.
I learned that Ornithomimus is called “bird mimic”.
I learned how to draw the Ornithomimus!
I learned that Ornithomimus had feathers.
I learned that dinosaurs could be birds.
I learned that birds are related to dinosaurs.
I learned that Ornithomimus existed.
I learned that Sinosauropteryx was a carnivore.
Ornithomimus
This dinosaur is a bird!
I learned that this dinosaur looks more like a bird.
