CONTENT CONNECTION WORKSHEET Grade 4
Theme Title
EXPLORING OUR WORLD
Content Connection
Theme #6 Lesson #26
Social Studies
Essential Questions
 What do dinosaur bones tell us about Utah’s history through climate and geography?
Resources
Main Selection and Leveled Books
 Dragons and Dinosaurs
 Dinosaur National Monument (BelowLevel)
 When Mammoths Roamed the Earth
(On-Level)
 The Animals of the LaBrea Tar Pits
(Advanced)
 Let’s Visit a Museum (ELL)
 A Dinosaur Lives, Virtually
(Comprehension)
 Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp
(Paired Selection)
Core Program Vocabulary (Tier
II)
 contraption
 roamed
 massive
 submerged
 elegant
 obstacles
 complicated
 eerie
Other Resources
 Classroom Library
Walking to the Creek
Arctic Lights Arctic Nights
The Winking, Blinking Sea
 Allosaurus
 Tyrannosaurus Was A Beast
 New Dinos: The Lastest Finds! The
Coolest Dinosaur Discoveries!
Content Vocabulary (Tier III)
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archaeology
artifacts
communication
erosion
excavations
landforms
natural resources
regions
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seismic activity
transportation
tourism
Comprehension Focus Strategy
 Summarize sections of text
 Understand explicit and implicit ideas
of text
Comprehension Focus Skill
 Recognize a stated main idea in a
passage or selection
 Identify details that support the main
idea
Connecting Social Studies Standard
 Standard I: Students will understand
the relationship between the physical
geography in Utah and human life
Objective
 2.f. Explain how archaeology informs
about the past (e.g. artifacts, ruins,
excavations, fossils)
Intended Learning Outcomes
 Students will learn about Utah’s past through the study of dinosaur fossils
Social Studies Activities t0 Develop Social Studies Concepts