Introduction

In this lesson students will be introduced to different types of dinosaurs, they will learn and describe their physical characteristics, they will compare and contrast the evolution of land, and they will learn about the extinction of dinosaurs.

Subject: Science
Topic: Dinosaurs
Grade Level: 1st. grade
Go To Student Lesson:  Dinosaurs 

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Standards  Addressed

         Student Activities       

Introductory Activities
As an introduction,  students will take the pretest  to find out how much students know about dinosaurs. Then, students will construct a KWL chart containing what students know about dinosaurs, what students want to learn about dinosaurs. At the end of the lesson students will complete the last part of the chart about what they have learned.
Enabling Activities
Students will view books, videos, charts and will visit  http://wwwdinosaurland.com/gallery.html  and view a dinosaur gallery. Students will visit http://www.discovery.com/exp/fossilzone/sounds/dinosounds.html and will hear the sounds dinosaurs made. Students will visit http://www.billybear4kids.com/dinosaurs/jigsaws.html. In this web site students will complete dinosaur jigsaw puzzles.


Culminating Activities
As a culminating activity, students will be giving a blank lined sheet. Students will then chose one of the dinosaurs studied and write at least three physical characteristics about their dinosaur. Their product will be put together as a book.

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                                 Assessment
Students will be given pretest and a posttest. Each test contains 10 question. Students will answer yes or no. The culminating activity is writing activity worth 20 points of their grade.

pretest

posttest                         

  rubrics

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      Introductory Activities

      Enabling Activities

     Culminating Activity

      Testing Materials