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Students examine websites about mammoths that lived until the end of the Ice Age. They explore the woolly, Columbian, and the Jefferson's mammoth. There are printable sheets, illustrations, maps, and an animated movie showing mammoths fighting. Full Review »
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- 4th - 5th
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Students explore how scientists determine what prehistoric animals looked like based on their bones. They draw a picture of the skull of a Tyrannosaurus Rex by copying an image from an overhead or book. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students define and name different types of dinosaurs. The state the characteristics of dinosaurs. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 3rd
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Students color a prehistoric animal to explain its actual size. The image is created by using an overhead projector and transparencies. They can also research other animals and plants of the time period to include in their picture. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students demonstrate understanding of prehistoric animals by creating models of them. They create prehistoric creatures by constructing a three-dimensional model. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students study dinosaurs as prehistoric animals. They determine what dinosaurs ate, what their characteristics were, and where we might see examples of dinosaurs today. They compare dinosaurs with other animals using pictures. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 4th
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Students draw names of dinosaurs out of a hat and write a report about the one they picked. Students write a riddle about their favorite prehistoric animal, post it on a bulletin board, and have other guess which animal it is about. Students define the unknown words in the story. Students create time lines of when different types of dinosaurs lived. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students work in groups to measure three measurements onto butcher paper. They then figure out which prehistoric animal they measured. Students research five facts about their prehistoric animal. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concepts related to the creation of imitation prehistoric artifacts. They paint pots using creative patterns that are copied or created under the influence of samples included in the online gallery. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students study about prehistoric artwork and use watercolor to create a primitive wall scene. They read the November 2005 issue of Scholastic Art Ice Age Art/Working with Line. Students discuss how early images created by humans were drawn and painted with quick, sketchy, thick and thin lines. Full Review »