Educational Consultants of Duguid, Neeley & Armoreda

Presents:

Dinosaurs

Educational Consultants

Project Manager - Susie Duguid

Curriculum Specialist - Steve Neeley

Technical Specialist - Christopher Armoreda

Topics Covered

• Life processes of dinosaurs• Changes and adaptations of dinosaurs• The extinction of Dinosaurs and the theories

Millions of years ago,

dinosaurs ruled the earth.

Life Processes of Dinosaurs

Presented by: Steve Neeley

Sunshine State Standards Benchmarks - Dinosaur Food Chain

• SC.B.1.1.1- The student knows that the Sun supplies heat and light energy to Earth.

• SC.F.1.1.1- The student knows the basic needs of all living things.

• SC.F.1.1.4- The student understands that structures of living things are adapted to their function in specific environments

• SC.G.1.1.2- The student knows that plants and animals are dependent upon each other for survival.

• SC.G.2.1.1- The student knows that if living things do not get food, water, shelter, and space, they will die.

Sample Dinosaur Food Chain

Food Web

Activities to Teach Dinosaur Food Chains

• View videos on dinosaurs. Examples include:

“The Magic School Bus: The Busasaurus” (time 7:30 ; an Ornithomimus steals an egg; they go back in time and keep track of meat-eaters and plant-eaters on a chart)

“Bill Nye the Science Guy: Dinosaurs: Those Big Boneheads!” (time 2:30; Bill Nye talks about the Maiasaurs’ plant-eating diet).

“The Land Before Time” also demonstrates the dinosaur food chain as part of the storyline.

• Read factual literature books about dinosaurs (see reference page later in slide show).

• Use the adopted textbook: Scott Foresman Science’s Discover the Wonder.

• Take virtual field trips to online museums.

Science Process Applications

• Observation

Have students name foods they’ve seen animals eat. Have them suggest what foods they think dinosaurs ate. Show the students pictures of different meat-eaters and plant-eaters and have them note differences and similarities between the two types.

Students can go to Enchanted Learning for research.

• Classification

Have students group dinosaurs in groups of meat-eaters and plant-eaters. Use note cards with the dinosaurs name and picture on it. Students complete this activity in small groups.

Have the students make a chart showing the different types of plant-eaters and the differences in food that they ate (e.g. Apatosaurus likely ate trees and Triceratops likely ate shrubs and grasses).

• Communication

Have the students make a poster about foods dinosaurs ate and show which ate plants and which ate meat.

Have the students write a story, “A Day in the Life of a Dinosaur” from the perspective of either a meat-eater or a plant-eater.

Have the students use Microsoft PowerPoint to make a short presentation teaching the differences between meat-eaters and plant-eaters.

Have the students tell you where the energy comes from and how it gets to the dinosaurs and what happens to it after the dinosaurs use the energy.

Science Process Applications Cont’d

• MeasurementHave the students go to the Enchanted Learning website and research the lengths of the different dinosaurs

and fill out a dinosaur fact sheet.

Have the students go out on the sidewalk and use chalk (or on a field and use flour) and measure the lengths of different meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs and draw (with chalk or flour) those lengths. Measure in both meters and feet.

• InferenceHave the students say what adaptations helped the different dinosaurs to acquire the food that they ate.

Have the students design (on paper or as a diorama) what they think would be an appropriate exhibit habitat at a zoo for two dinosaurs, one meat-eating and the other plant-eating.

Show the students pictures of several meat-eating and plant-eating animals alive today and have them classify which animal belongs to which group. Elicit the reasons for their determinations and state what adaptations those animals may have made to acquire food.

• PredictionShow the students pictures of several dinosaurs that they have not seen before. Have the students look for

adaptations already learned about to decide if these dinosaurs ate meat or plants. Have them write down why they believe their answers to be accurate.

Ask the students why they think the dinosaurs are no longer alive.. Get verbal answers, then show the Bill Nye video, “Dinosaurs: Those Big Boneheads!” starting from time 17:30. Bill Nye discusses how the dinosaurs lived in an ecosystem and that ecosystem changed. Discuss what the students heard and saw in that video clip and then have the students write a letter to their parents telling why dinosaurs no longer roam the Earth.

Dinosaur Food Chain Assessments

• A sample activity is to the right. -->

• Have the students fill in a blank food chain chart (provide chart outline and names of things to insert in chart separately) - use the sample food chain as a model.

• Use the adopted text test pages.

• Create or find assessment activities which extend upon the learning activities used.

• Write Meat-Eater or Plant-Eater next to the facts below:

• 1. ate other dinosaurs ______________

• 2. ate plants _________________

• 3. had sharp teeth _________________

• 4. had flat teeth _________________

• 5. some had horns and armor ___________

• 6. no horns or armor _________________

• 7. some were long necks _______________

Changes and adaptations of Dinosaurs

Presented by: Susie Duguid

Sunshine State Standards

Processes of life

The student describes patterns of structure and function in living things.

SC.F.1.1.4 - understands that structure of living things are adapted to their function in an environment.

Sunshine State Standards

How living things interact with their environment.

The student understands the competitive, interdependent, cyclic nature of living things in the environment.

SC.G.1.1.4 - know that animals and plants can be associated with their environment by an examination of their structural characteristics.

Environments changingDinosaurs adapting

• students will be using observation and communication

• Atwater, M. (1993). Living things …changes over time. New York:Macmillan/McGraw-Hill

School Publishing Company.

Attention getting activities

• Jurassic Park **(WITH PARENTAL AND SCHOOL BOARD CONSENT)**

• Everybody walk the dinosaur (song)

• Dino songs web site (mindspring.com site)

• Paint Watermelon white and hide it on the playground. Tell children to find the dinosaur egg

Virtual Museums On-line

• National Geographic Dinosaur Eggs URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/dinoeggs/

• The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, Dinosaur Exhibit, "Life Over Time" URL: http://www.fmnh.org/exhibits/web_exhibits.htmOnline Teacher Guides available

• University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, CA URL: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/index.html

• Guide to Dinosaur Sites in Western Colorado and Eastern Utah URL: http://www.rmwest.com/dinosaur/guide.htm

• Comprehensive listing of dinosaur illustrations online URL: http://web.syr.edu/~dbgoldma/pictures.html

• Children’s on-line museum

Websites

• http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.html

• http://www.connectingstudents.com/themes/dinos.htm

• http://www.mindconnection.com

• http://www.nebo.edu/nebo/bookmarks/k12/lesson.html

• http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/paleodino.htm

• http://www.sunvalleyski.com/dinosaur.html

• http://www.dinodon.com

• http://www.onlineclass.com/dinosaurs/students.htm

• http://www.qmark.com/qm_web/dino.html

The extinction of Dinosaurs and the theories

Presented by: Christopher Armoreda

Dinosaur Extinction Theories

The exact explanation as to why dinosaurs disappeared from this earth is yet unknown. Several feasible theories have been presented and they are the:

• Volcanic theory

• Asteroid theory

• Super Nova Theory

• Orbital Changes Theory

• Epidemic Disease Theory

Dinosaur Extinction Theories as they are related to

the Sunshine State Standards

SC.F.1.1.1 SC.F.1.1.4

Processes Of Life

SC.G.1.1.2 SC.G.2.1.1

How living thingsInteract with their

Environment

DinosaurExtinctionTheories

Sunshine State Standards

Processes Of Life

The student describes patterns of structure and function in living things.

SC.F.1.1.1 - knows the basic needs of all living things.

SC.F.1.1.4 - understands that structures of living things are adapted to their function in specific environments.

Sunshine State Standards

How Living things Interact with Their Environment

The student understands the competitive, interdependent, cyclic nature of living things in the environment.

SC.G.1.1.2 - knows that plants and animals are dependent upon each other for survival.

The student understands the consequences of using limited natural resources.

SC.G.2.1.1 - knows that if living things do not get food, water, shelter, and space, they will die.

Proceed with Caution

• The dinosaur extinction theories are very complex.

• Choose the theories that the students can understand.

• Try and simplify the chosen theories to their level of understanding.

Volcanic Theory

• Ask the students questions based on the picture.

• Have a virtual field trip of volcanoes on-line.

Virtual Tour

• Conduct a lesson on acid rain.

Acid Rain Lesson

Asteroid Theory

• Ask students questions based on the picture.

• Provide students with some information about asteroids and the impact it had on the dinosaurs extinction.

Asteroid Information

Dinosaur Extinction

• Have an activity with the class in relation to this theory of dinosaur extinction.

Geology ActivityThis painting, by space artist and scientist Don Davis, shows what an asteroid hitting the Earth 65 million years ago might have looked like. The bird-like creatures are pterodactyls, which are flying reptiles with 50-foot wingspans. From NASA.

Super Nova Theory

• Define what a Super Nova and the ozone layer is to the class.

• Ask the class if they know what happens when the ozone layer is destroyed.

• Try this neat activity and lesson on the ozone layer.

Activity and Lesson

Orbital Changes Theory

• Show class how the earth’s orbit, tilt and wobble could have caused the extinction of dinosaurs. Use a globe when teaching this concept. Here is a good information tool.

Informational Tool

Epidemic Disease Theory

• A simple way to teach this concept is to have the students pretend that they are a dinosaur and they got sick from something they ate. They would discuss how what made them sick and how they felt. They would write until the death of their dinosaur.

Cognitive Processes

• Integration with other academic disciplines.

• The utilization of the components of the science process.

• Uses of the different levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

• Association with the Learning Theories.

List of useful websites for students and teachers on the various dinosaur extinction theories

• http://www.zoomschool.com/subjects/dinosaurs

• http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/dinosaurs.html

• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/extinction/Other.html

• http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/archive/1995/950109/950109.science.html

• http://www.execpc.com~maas/extinction

• http://www.ukonline.co.uk/u.buckley/dino.htm

• http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/rexfiles/sealevel.html

• http://www.monroe.k12.laus~mhen/lesson.html

• http://www.unmuseum.mus.pa.us/deaddino.htm

• http://www.transatlantech.com/TPS/hot-top-belize-01.html

• http://www.bodnarchuck.com/prehistoric/dinosaur.html

• http://www.rr.gmcs.k12.nm.us/dinosaurs.htm

• http://www.dinosaurs.eb.com/dinosaurs/study/act03.htm

Dinosaur Resources

Books, Videos and Computer Software

Classroom Library Books

• Nolan, D. (1990). Dinosaur Dream. New York: MacMillan.

ISBN 0689718322

Audio Cassette ISBN 1568760051

• Schnetzler, P. (1996). Ten Little Dinosaurs.

ISBN 0939251744

• Parker, S. (1991). Dinosaurs and How They Lived. DK Publishing

ISBN: 1879431130

More Books• Bakker, R. (1996). The Dinosaur Heresies; New Theories Unlocking

the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction. Zebra Books

ISBN 0821756087• Cole, J. (1994). The Magic School Bus : In the Time of the Dinosaurs.

Scholastic Trade; ISBN: 0590446886

• Relf, P., Degen, B., Cole, J. (1996) The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten : A Book About Food Chains. Scholastic Trade; ISBN: 0590484141

• Griffith, H. (1998). Dinosaur Habitat. Greenwillow; ISBN: 0688153240

Video Resources• Bill Nye the Science Guy:Dinosaurs: Those Big Boneheads! (1994)

Rated: NR

NTSC format (US and Canada only)

Color, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, Digital Sound, NTSC

ASIN: 6303160352• Magic School Bus, The - The Busasaurus (1997)

Rated: NR

NTSC format (US and Canada only)

Color, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, Animated, NTSC

ASIN: 6304400683• Land Before Time (1988)

Director: Don Bluth

Edition Details: NTSC format (US and Canada only)

Color, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, Animated, Surround Sound, NTSC

Clamshell Packaging

ASIN: 6303939015

Dinosaur Software Resources• Magic School Bus Explores In The Age Of Dinosaurs

Microsoft

Media: CD-ROM

Platform: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT

ASIN: B00002SACN

• A World of Dinosaurs

CounterTop Software

Media: CD-ROM

Platform: Windows 95,

Windows 98, Windows NT

ASIN: B0000326NL

And More Books . . .• Children's guide to dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals by Philip Whitfield • Dinosaur encyclopedia by M.J. Benton • Dinosaur questions by Bernard Most • Dinosaurs: facts, things to make, activities by David Lambert and Rachel

Wright • Dinosaurs and their living relatives by British Museum (Natural History) • Discovering dinosaurs: an up-to-date guide including the newest theories by

Victoria Crenson, Robert Walters • How do you draw dinosaurs? by D.C. DuBosque • If the dinosaurs came back by Bernard Most • Illustrated encyclopedia of dinosaurs : an original and compelling insight into

life in the dinosaur kingdom by David Norman • Last dinosaur by Jim Murphy • Maia : a dinosaur grows up by James Gorman and John R. Horner • New questions and answers about dinosaurs by Seymour Simon • Patrick's dinosaurs by Carol Carrick, Donald Carrick • Tyrannosaurus was a beast: dinosaur poems by Jack Prelutsky • What happened to the dinosaurs? by Franklyn Mansfield Branley

More Videos

• A giant leap for dinosaurs by Museum of the Rockies, D.J. Smith and Daniel W. Smith

• Death of the dinosaur by Robin Bates, a PBS Video

• Dinosaurs those big boneheads ","Buena Vista Home Video (Firm) , Bill Nye Walt Disney Home Video.

• Flesh on the bones" by Robin Bates, Trudi Brown, Barbara Feldon, Kathy White, a PBS Video

• How big were the dinosaurs? Bill Walker Productions, Coronet/MTI Film and Video

• Where did they go? a dinosaur update by Rainbow Educational Video

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