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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

Science Standards Addressed

Life Science

2. Plants and animals meet their needs in different ways. As a basis for understanding
this concept:

c. Students know animals eat plants or other animals for food and may also use plants or
even other animals for shelter and nesting.

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Instructional Objectives

During the lesson, students will concentrate on four dinosaurs: Tyrannosaurs Rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, and Diplocodous. Students and teacher will construct a KWL chart to find what they know about these dinosaurs, what they want to find out about these dinosaurs and what they learned about these dinosaurs.

Through the use of fictional books, educational videos, several charts and websites students will engage in active discussions to classify and describe dinosaurs according to physical characteristics

Students will engage in teacher directed lessons to read, discuss and understand facts about different dinosaurs.

Students will interact in explicit instruction to write about the physical characteristics of dinosaurs.

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.
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 a writing activity worth 20 points of their grade.

pretest

posttest

rubrics

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Web Resources & Supplementary Materials

Introductory Activities

Video National Geographic "Dinosaurs".

Enabling Activities

	Activity Sheet # 1 Triceratops.
	Activity Sheet # 2 Stegosaurus.
	Activity Sheet # 3 Tyrannosaurus.
	Activity Sheet # 4 Diplodocus.
	Book List.

Culminating Activity

	Triceratops.
	Stegosaurus.
	Tyrannosaurus Rex.
	Diplodocus.

Testing Materials

	Pre-Test
	Post-Test
	Rubric

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Hedrick Elementary School
550 South Waterman, El Centro Ca., 92243
Claudia E. Ye claudiaye@icoe.k12.ca.us
Last Revised: 05/23/01

Life Science

2. Plants and animals meet their needs in different ways. As a basis for understanding this concept:

2. Plants and animals meet their needs in different ways. As a basis for understanding
this concept: