Kids Dinos is part of the Kids Know It network, a free educational resource for kids. On this site, your child can learn all about the age of dinosaurs in a fun, interactive environment. Kids Dinos allows your child to experience science, history and geography in a fun way, using hands-on activities and games, rather than relying solely on books, which makes learning more interesting.

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Nikki Phipps is a freelance writer of numerous articles and other publications, including the premiere issue of Perspectives Magazine. She also maintains a gardening site, GardenCrypt in her spare time. Drawing inspiration from family and past experiences, Nikki believes everyone has something to say that can benefit others, which is why she turned to writing. “There’s no better tool for learning than that of personal experience.” Nikki resides in NC with her children.

Name of Product: Kids Dinos

Link to Product/website: http://www.kidsdinos.com/

Description of Product: “65 million years ago monstrous reptiles roamed freely across the Earth, only to mysteriously disappear. Read articles about dinosaurs, search the dino database, vote for your favorite types of dinosaurs, and play dinosaur games, on KidsDinos.com, our dinosaur website.”

Nikki’s Description of Product: Kids Dinos is part of the Kids Know It network, a free educational resource for kids. On this site, your child can learn all about the age of dinosaurs in a fun, interactive environment.

Homeschool Uses: This would be a great supplemental tool for teaching history/geography topics relating to the dinosaur age, from the individual time periods and where they lived to the different types of dinosaurs and what they ate. The flashcards, located in the Dinorize It section, make excellent study material as well. Here, your child can create a list of dinosaurs that he or she wants or needs to study.

Kids Dinos allows your child to experience history and geography in a fun way, using hands-on activities and games, rather than relying solely on books, which makes learning more interesting. Science lessons could also find their way here by studying meteors or using scientific inquiry skills to hypothesize what your child thinks may have happened to the dinosaurs.

Content and Safety: All the information on the Kids Dinos site has been thoroughly researched for both accuracy and appropriateness. I found nothing that would be deemed unsafe or inappropriate for children. In addition, there is nothing to sign up for and no registration required for using the site. No one asks for or uses any private information.

Nikki’s Experience Using the Product: While exploring the Kids Dinos site, I found a neat interactive dinosaur map (located in the purple bar of the homepage) where you can click on areas of the map to learn more about the dinosaurs that were found in different places around the world. You can also click on the View Dinosaur Types to learn more about a specific type of dinosaur.

The Dinosaur Timeline allows you to choose the time period you would like to learn more about. In addition to these interesting tools, users can visit the Dino Data section to find information on all sorts of dinosaurs and interesting facts about them, including what a specific dinosaur may have eaten and how big it might have been. The site also includes a featured dinosaur on each page, and you can also vote for your favorite dinosaur on the Vote for Dinosaurs page. Finally, your child can play Dino Games or take part in other fun activities like classifying the dinosaurs, matching games, dinosaur hangman and more!

Tutorial or Promotional Video of the Product: While researching and exploring the Kids Dinos site, I did not come across any tutorials on using it. However, the site is fairly straight forward and does not take a genius to get around on it. All the activities, games, and other information are easy to comprehend.

Summary: I found the site easy to maneuver around and easy to understand, with kid-friendly information for younger viewers. While it’s aimed toward the elementary school-aged learner (K-5), those in grades 6-8 may also find the site both useful and interesting. Overall, it would definitely be worth a look. Let us know what you think.

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