A Lesson Plan On Dinosaurs

By Claudia E. Ye

Description… Standard 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.

Objectives: At the end of this lesson students will learn specific facts about four dinosaurs.Students will learn about their eating habits, their habitat, and their physical

characteristics.

A Gallery of Dinosaurs…

Triceratops Stegosaurus

Tyrannosaurus Rex Diplodocus

Introduction…National Geographic Video

FossilsPaleontologistGeologistGeography

Beginning KWL Chart… Teacher and students create a KWL chart.

What students learned…

What students want to know…

What students know…

Dinosaurs were meat-eater, said Eun Jin.

KWL Chart…

Tyrannosaurus Rex… In activity # 1 students read several books about

Tyrannosaurus Rex. Students wrote as many facts about T. Rex as they remembered.

Triceratops…

In activity # 2 students read and discuss facts about Triceratops. Students were asked to write facts about this dinosaur.

Learning About Diplodocus in Room 14…

Billy

Jae and Amy

Danielle

Eun Jin

After visiting a web

page, students discovered

more about Stegosaurus.

Stegosaurus…

More Dinosaurs …

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