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Dinosaurs A
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Notes Attention second graders! Your help is needed by the Children's Museum. They are adding a wing onto the museum that is
all about dinosaurs and their fossils. Your
help is needed to:
conduct
research on many kinds of dinosaurs and their
fossils
create
dinosaur trading cards for the children that visit
the new dinosaur exhibit at the Children's Museum
study
the findings of your research and make reports for
the museum about what you've learned
Let's get down to work: First, you'll pick the name of a dinosaur that the
museum needs information on, out of a dinosaur egg. Use the Dinosaur Research Sheet that your teacher
gives you to record
information about your dinosaur. Use the following websites: Zoom Dinosaurs -
Table
of Contents Zoom Dinosaurs - Info
Pages
Zoom Dinosaurs -
Fact Sheets Zoom Dinosaurs - Print
Outs If you did not, and
there are differences, look up the information again. Now
it's time to create your Dinosaur Trading Cards that the museum
will be handing out to the children who visit the new Dinosaur
Exhibit.
We'll be using a template already created in
KidPix. It is in your student folder. Using the Fill tool in KidPix, color your
dinosaur as close to the way they really looked. Using the ABC Text Tool, enter your information
about your dinosaur from your Dinosaur Research Sheet. Here's what your Dinosaur Trading Card might look
like: When you are finished, let your teacher
know. While you are waiting, learn more about dinosaurs by clicking here. We have learned many interesting facts about our
dinosaurs on our own but The Children's Museum would
like to know more what our entire group learned about
dinosaurs. With your teacher's help, as a group answer the
following questions about the dinosaur you researched
so we can make a graph for our report. Of the dinosaurs we researched: How many herbivores were there? How many carnivores were there? How many omnivores were there? How many dinosaurs spent most of their time on land? If they lived on land, did they walk on two
legs or four? How many were birds and spent most of their
time in the air? How many lived in the Triassic Era? How many lived in the Jurassic Era? How many lived in the Cretaceous Era? How many students found fossil information on
their dinosaur? Our last report to the Children's Museum will be
to help them know where to put the life-size replica
of the dinosaurs. It will be important for the museum
to put some bigger dinosaurs with smaller dinosaurs
so that all of them will fit in the exhibit. Your teacher will give you a Dinosaur graph and
explain how to complete your report for the museum.
Which one of the larger dinosaurs can be paired up
with the smaller ones? This is going to be one great dinosaur
exhibit~thanks to your help!
Extreme Dinosaurs - what were the biggest, smartest,
fastest, heaviest dinosaurs. Which dinosaurs had the
sharpest teeth? Click here
to find out.
Click here
to listen to how to pronounce your dinosaur. Find the
name of your dinosaur and click on speaker next to its name. Be sure to
put the headphones on! Click on the dinosaurs below
to listen to them talk about themselves. Do you see one that you or a
friend researched?
Click here
to see realistic pictures of what the dinosaurs
looked like. Compare the pictures and the information
to your fact sheet. Does the picture show the
dinosaur walking on two feet. Is it a smaller
dinosaur? And what is it eating in the picture?
Try this with mom and dad. Click here
to see if you know
in which
era the dinosaurs lived.
Click here
to play "Who moved the dinosaur body" and
learn more about how fossils are formed.
Click here
to solve Fossil Mysteries.
Dino
Quiz
Games Standards: NETS for Students: 3. Technology Productivity Tools 5. Technology research tools 6. Technology problem solving and decision making
tools. On-line resources (clipart, etc.): Dinosaur
voices from Dino Dictionary Suggested Prep Work: Make slips of paper with dinosaur names on them.
Let students pick out of a hat/or dinosaur egg. :) Be sure to assign same dinosaurs in two different
classrooms so students can compare "research
notes." Go to Zoom Dinosaurs and find the dinosaurs you
assigned to students. Save a .gif file to a folder so
it can be later used to make the dinosaur trading
cards in KidPix. When looking at collective results in the Let's
Report section, make it easy, ask the questions and
get a "show of hands". Next use a
spreadsheet program to graph the results. Or, instead of a spreadsheet, use Utah State's
online math manipulative. You'll need a Java plug in
(which is most likely already on your PC). Utah State
does a marvelous job of providing visuals for data
analysis for young children. It's very easy to use.
Some students will be able to do this on their own. Dinosaur Research Sheet
(MS Word format) Dinosaur Graph is from
Zoom Dinosaurs
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