Study guide, study booklet, exam:
$17.44  |
- Description:
- The subject of dinosaurs is often a popular one with younger children. This course presents information about those animals of long ago at a level easily accessible to a young student, and provides illustrations for each kind of dinosaur discussed. The course touches on possible explanations for the extinction of those huge animals, and also discusses how other animals were able to evolve and change in order to survive. The student learns how paleontologists use fossils to find out about prehistoric animals, and gets to make his own imitation trace fossils.
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| Age range: 8-10 years | Grades:
3-5 | | Study booklet length: 37 pages | Estimated course length: 6 hours |
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| Prerequisite: Basic Biology Series: Animal Kingdom course or a general knowledge of different types of animals. |
Materials you need to provide:
Texts: A book with lots of pictures of different kinds of dinosaurs, such as: Dinosaurs by Gail Gibbons, Holiday House (preschool-grade 3), Golden Guide to Dinosaurs and Fossils, Golden Books or Peterson's First Guide to Dinosaurs, Houghton Mifflin; a book with lots of pictures of fossils (if not in the guide).
Materials: Newsprint or butcher paper; a petrified fossil; tray or large pan; a trace fossil showing a print or cast; paints and brush or markers; colored pencils; bowls with flat bottoms or pie plates; petroleum jelly; watercolors and brush; aluminum foil; plaster of Paris; a measuring cup; some animal and plant parts (such as leaves, nuts, small bones, shell); something to mix plaster in; modeling clay; small toy animals.
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From a student: I learned about dinosaurs and fossils and how to make an artificial trace fossil. It was fun! E.N.
From a student:Animals of Long Ago was fun. I really liked the clay demonstrations and the plaster of paris models. The reason I passed 100% was because I really understood all the steps and how to do them. T.T.
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