Englewood Schools KidQuest
Winter Break 2009
STAFF NOTES
Friday, December 18, 2009 – Afternoon
Monday, December 21, 2009
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
 Colorado Mammals and Animals– How do animals in Colorado adapt to the environment?t
 Fossils – Why dinosaurs that lived in Colorado are extinct?
 Southwest Indians – How did the Indians in the southwestern United States live?
BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE FOR STAFF
1) Colorado Mammals and Animals
 The following animals live in the wild in Colorado”
a. Big Horn Sheep
b. Black Bears
c. Coyote
d. Elk
e. Great horned owl
f. Horses
g. Marmots
h. Mountain Lions
i. Mule Deer
j. Showshoe Hare
k. Box turtles
l. Skunks
m. Racoons
n. Red fox
o. Bald eagle
p. Mallards
 We learn a lot about animals from clues they leave behind
a. Skat
b. Markings on trees (i.e., sharpening claws…
c. Tracks
 Animals can be divided into what they eat
o Carnivores – meat eaters like eagles
o Herbivores – plant eaters like pronghorn antelope, raccoons, prairie dogs, deer
o Omnivores – eat both like bears and humans
2) Fossils
 Paleontologists are scientists who study prehistoric animals
a. They find skeleton fossils and put them together to discover how big dinosaurs were
b. They can tell many things from fossils:
i. What they ate
ii. if they flew or walked on two or more legs
iii. if they lived in water
 Fossils are preserved remains of prehistoric animals or plants
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 Fossils are found in Colorado
a. Biped fossils – 2 foot dinosaurs were found just east of the Rocky Mountains – some in
Golden and Morrison.
3) Southwest Indians came to this area before Columbus discovered America
 The landscape of the American Southwest includes:
a. Deserts
b. mountains
 The major tribes that lived in the Southwestern United States
a. Navajo
b. Hopi
c. Zuni
 Life for Indians of the Southwest
a. Lived in villages called pueblos
i. Homes made out of stone or adobe (mud) and logs & trees
ii. Some built their homes in cliffs
1. Documented their living on rock walls
b. Food they ate
i. Corn was ground down on a large flat stone
ii. Beans, squash, nuts
c. They ate from dishes called pottery they made themselves
i. Made from wet clay
ii. Coiled ropes one on top of the other
iii. Beautiful patterns
d. They made toys and jewelry out of natural objects: stone, wood, string
e. They made their own clothing and blankets by weaving
i. They used wool from sheep
1. Sheared or cut the wool from the sheep
2. Carded the wool with a tool that looks like a steel dog brush
3. Spun the wool on a spinning wheel
4. Made blankets, rugs and material on a machine called a loom
5. Designs
a. Animals - cows, sheep
b. Plants – corn
c. Environment – mountains, cactus
d. People – men & women in ceremonial dress
OUTCOMES FOR STUDENT LEARNING
1) Colorado Mammals
a. Students will be able to state or demonstrate
i. What animals live in Colorado
ii. What they eat
iii. What clues they leave behind
2) Fossils
a. Students will be able to state or demonstrate
i. Paleontologists are fossil detectives
ii. Definition fossils
iii. Fossils were found here in Colorado so we know that dinosaurs lived here
iv. Colorado was under water many times when dinosaurs lived.
1. Colorado was underwater many times when dinosaurs lived.
2.
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3) Native Americans
a. Students will be able to state or demonstrate that
i. The Native Americans of the Southwest came from tribes called Navajo, Zuni,
Hopi
ii. They lived in houses made of stone, adobe, logs & trees – sometimes in caves
because these materials were available to them and it helped keep them cool
iii. Corn was a major food that they ate and can be seen in their weaving
iv. They made their own dishes called pottery.
v. They know that they had to make their own toys and jewelry from natural objects.
vi. They made their own clothing by weaving wool from sheep
Time
Location
7-9 am
KQ
Room
Age
Choice
MONDAY
Activity
Memory Games
Eagle masks or
eagle or wolf or
fox puppets
Museum kit
Books
A Mountain What
Sssnakes
Smoooch
Where is my poult
King of the
Mountain
Nest Numbers
Colorado Animal
riddle cards
Here kitty kitty
Animal Silly
Sentences
Notes
Colorado wildlife and
Colorado attractions
Children use their Eagle
eyes at museum today
Staff
Tara
Megan
Bryce
Open the Colorado
Mammal kit and share
information on cards and
artifacts with the
children
Find favorite animal &
discover how this animal
lives
A Mountain goat is not
really a goat – find what
kind of animal
Find the snake with the
Xmas Tree
Help the prairie dog find
his way home
Match mama and baby
animals
Dot to Dot to discover
who is the king of the
mountain
Discover the number of
pounds a bald eagles
weighs
Try to answer the animal
riddles
Figure out the names of
mountain cats using
rebus pictures
Solve the puzzle and say
fast 3 xs.
3
8-9
Metro room
Choice
Museum Kit
Racing
Compsognathus
Make a pterodactyl
book mark
Duck billed
dinosaur magnet
Out of order
Fossil fuels
Where in the world
Dot to dots
Books
9-9:30
Cafeteria
All
9:309:50
Cafeteria
Counselor/family
groups
Wash hands,
snack, lunch check,
divide into
counselor groups
Counselor groups
divide into families
of 4 with one a
minimum of one
older child & go
over schedule and
expectations
If time, open the fossils
kit and share
information on cards and
artifacts with the
children
Make one egg cup
compsognathus and race
with a friend – leave for
others to use
Put in order
Circle all things that we
use fossil fuels – from
dinosaurs who lived
long ago
Match dinosaurs with
where they were first
discovered
Choose a favorite
dinosaur and complete
dot to dot
Discover how dinosaurs
lived and how detective
paleontologists discover
what we know about
dinosaurs who are all
extinct
Learn names in family
and counselor groups
Go over schedule of the
day
* Eating at UMC at
college – inside voices
and no running around.
No purchasing anything.
* Fountain area outside
of UMC.
* Museum etiquette –
* Books for each room
to start
* Scavenger hunt with
Tara
Bryce
Megan
Kileen
Tara
Bryce
Cathy
Kileen
4
families.
* Family pictures in
museum.
* Looms available for 4
children in each
counselor group to
weave.
* Kainish games
9:5010
KQ
Room/hall
Counselor/Family
Groups
10-11
Bus
Bus ride – sit in
counselor groups
– load back to the
front.
1111:45
UMC lunch
area
11:4512
121:30
Fountain
area
Museum
Sit in counselor
groups with
counselor
Counselor groups
as finish lunch
By
counselor/family
groups
1:302:30
Bus
2-2:30
Cafeteria
Megan
2:30-3
3-3:30
3:304:15
Cafeteria
Playground
Metro
Room
Gym
All
All
Explorers
Room of
choice
Gym
Leaders
Explorers
Room
Child choice of
4:15-5
5-6
Leaders
Lunch – sitting
quietly.
* Take all belongings
for field trip, bathroom
break, and prepare to
load the bus.
Students who want to
weave may work on
weaving kits or may
read books in counselor
backpacks or may sing
Xmas carols or ride
quietly.
Quiet conversation
Free time
Stretch legs before going
into the museum.
Explore museum & Upstairs
fill out scavenger
1) Fossil hall
hunt
2) Special exhibit
Downstairs - Rack to
hang coats
1) Anthropology Hall
2) Coffee area and
discovery room
Return to Clayton
Prep snack & get
keys for shed
Snack
Cookies & milk
Megan
Dinosaur activities
Same as morning
Megan,
Cathy,
Bryce
(Bryce leave
at 3:30),
Kylie
Dinosaur spelling
Snowball relay
Museum activities
Dinosaur spelling
Snowball relay
Activities already
5
children
choose
which room
set up in rooms
6