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Dinosaurs Galore!

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Dinosaurs Fossil Evidence

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Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur.
  • Talk about changes.

Science

  • Sort and classify things according to whether they are living, dead or where never alive.

History

  • Learn about the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements.

Lesson Planning

Imagine what it would have been like to be one of the world’s first ‘dino experts’/paleontologists!

Children will:

  • Use seashells, pebbles, stones and other natural objects; pencils, clay tools, bottle tops and other manmade objects to make impressions in clay
  • Sort objects and images of objects into 3 categories, living, dead or never alive.
  • Make dinosaur shaped biscuits.
  • Learn about Mary Anning, while eating dinosaur biscuits.
  • Learn tongue twister ‘She sells seashells on the sea shore’.

You Will Need

  • Ingredients for biscuits
  • Clay or salt dough and natural items, seashells, pebbles, stones
  • Manmade items, pencils, clay tools, bottle tops
  • Books: Stone Girl Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning of Lyme Regis and Ten Little Dinosaurs

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