Digging Up Dinosaurs
Kindergarten
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Overview
Objectives
Standards
Materials
Procedure
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Evaluation
Students will learn about Dinosaurs.
The students should be able to have a grasp on what happened
to the dinosaurs and explain what they are now in fossils.
The Common Themes from Indiana Academic Standards and
Resources. It focuses on what the world will become and what
it was before.
The materials are:
o I Can Read About Fossils by John Howardi
o What Happened to the Dinosaurs? by Franklyn M.
Branleyii
o Clay and imprints to make fossils
o Construction paper and markers to make their own
dinosaur
o Pictures of dinosaurs to explain what they looked like.
o A Vitalist account for Teachers and Parents
o Begin by telling how old dinosaurs are and that they
came from eggs. Telling them they came before
humans and that they are reptiles.
o Show them pictures of how big they were and talk
about what kinds of food they ate. Show them the size
of a dinosaur against the size of a car or a bus.
o Explain the differences between carnivores and
herbivores, naming examples of dinosaurs.
o Show pictures of popular dinosaurs, for example
Tyrannosaurs Rex and a Brachiosaurus.
o Try to explain the different time periods like Triassic,
Jurassic, and Cretaceous.
o Explain to them what happened, by reading What
happened to the Dinosaurs? By Franklyn M. Branley
o Then go into what the dinosaurs are now, like the
fossils and the museums. Read to them I Can Read
About Fossils by John Howard.
o Have them draw what they thought a dinosaur would
look like, name the species, and help them use their
imagination.
Have the children do type of an oral presentation by having
them create a story about a dinosaur (going along with their
picture) and tell what happened to their dinosaur during his
life.
Digging Up Dinosaurs
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http://www.pocanticohills.org/dinosaur/books.htm
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http://www.pocanticohills.org/dinosaur/books.htm
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http://www.fieldmuseum.org/sue/about.asp
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~skafi/DINO.HTM
http://www.livescience.com/animals/051201_dinosaur_history.html
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