Unit Plan
Clifford Learns About Dinosaurs and So Do We! (This is also the caption on my bulletin board)
By
Marci Ruiz
- Grades: PreK–K
Overview
We learn about dinosaurs through literature, poetry,
science, math, art, drama, and movement. Students will discover the characteristics
of many kinds of dinosaurs. What they ate, fossils, the environment in
which they lived, and how they became extinct. Students will learn about
the people who study dinosaurs and the techniques they use to find information.
We will be surprised by the kinds of plants that lived then and those
that are alive today.
Objective
Students will:
- Categorize dinosaurs into meat eaters and plant eaters
- Categorize dinosaurs by where they lived (water, land, air)
- Define fossils and describe their value to paleontologists
- Describe the job of a paleontologist
- Identify at least 10 kinds of dinosaurs
Lesson Plans for this Unit
Lesson 1: Dinosaur Skeletons
Lesson 2: If You Meet a Dinosaur Book (Adapted from If You Meet a Dragon by Joy Cowley)
Supporting Books
- Everything You Need:
- Subjects:Discovery and Learning, Charts and Graphs, Literature, Reading Comprehension, Literature Appreciation, Listening Comprehension, Vocabulary, Dinosaurs, Paleontology and Fossils, Early Science, Real-World Science, Plants, Science through Literature, Scientists and Human Endeavor
- Skills:Science, Listening Comprehension, Vocabulary
- Duration:4 Weeks
