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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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- 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 explore the location of the Maya, Aztec and Inca civilizations. They role-play what it was like to live like these civilizations did and develop an appreciation and tolerance for other cultures. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students take a pre-test to show their prior knowledge of dinosaurs. Using the internet, they reasearch the time period in which they roamed the Earth. Focusing on the area of Connecticut, they compare and contrast the large and small dinosaurs in which bones were found. To end the lesson, they make dinosaur footprints out of clay or plaster. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students research prehistoric life using educational software. They design a prehistoric life while showing the use of appropriate scale and names for the prehistoric life. They follow an internet link to participate in a virtual field trip to watch a dinosaur egg hatch. 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 develop a hypothesis for the survival of living fossils such as coelacanths and horseshoe crabs. They discuss theories for the extinction of dinosaurs then research one of the living fossils in detail to evaluate their own hypothesis. There is a Discovery Channel companion video for this lesson. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students determine characteristics that are common to predators and scavengers using pictures of dinosaurs for models. In small groups they discuss the differences between meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs then answer a series of questions to contrast predators and scavengers. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students are engaged in a study of dinosaurs while focusing upon the scientific facts that are known today. They differentiate between real evidence and conjecture taken from it. Students view samples of fossils and then create their own. Full Review »
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