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Dinosaur Unit

SPECIAL EVENTS: Parent program March 25 and 26, 2010
            Notes will be sent home later with details

Dear Parents,
From the Spokesman Review February, 1986 (and still true in 2010)
Kids Love Their Dinosaurs
       Philadelphia - Yes, the children surely do love their cuddly teddy bears and nursery rhymes about Jack and Jill and Mary's little Lamb. But not as much as they love big, ugly dinosaurs.
        And the bigger and uglier they are the better the wee folk love them. Weilbacher, "dinosaur teacher" at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science said, "They are fascinated."
       It does not surprise him to meet young children who not only can pronounce tyrannosaurus and triceratops, but can tell you the difference between them. "And knowing how to say the names is as important to children as knowing about the creatures themselves", he said.
   "It is something the adults can't do," Weibacher commented. "I can't think of any aspect of science that holds as much fascination for children."

Objectives of The Unit

1. To excite curiosity
2. To develop awareness
3. To develop ability to perceive and describe
4. To answer questions using various positional words
5. To expand vocabulary and new verbal skills
6. To introduce language skills using verbal, visual, auditory and tactile experiences

Fossils
   Fossils are the way we learn about Dinosaurs. What is a paleontologist? What does he/she do? We're all going to find the answer. The children will have a "hands on" experience searching for fossils and recreating their own fossils. These tasks will require the children to think, discuss, cooperate and use their visual perception and eye-hand coordination skills.

BOOKS USED IN THIS UNIT

Patrick's Dinosaurs by Carol Corrick.; Facts are skillfully woven about prehistoric animals into a story about a little boy with a colossal imagination.

Ten Little Dinosaurs by Pattie Schnetzler -Rhyming verses describe the antics of ten different dinosaurs, including pachycephalosaurus, archaeopteryx, supersaurs, & triceratops

I Can Spell Dinosaur by DLM Teaching Sources, Roach Allen.; A predictable storybook designed for class participation.

Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp

Creatures of long ago Dinosaurs
If the Dinosaurs came back

Eyewitness Books Dinosaur
It's probably good dinosaurs are extinct

What ever happened to Patrick's Dinos
Digging up Dinosaurs

The Trouble with Tyrannosaurs Rex
Dinosaurs

Danny and the Dinosaur
There's a dinosaur in the park

The Missing Dinosaur Bone
The true book of Dinosaurs

Dinosaur Time

What is a Dinosaur?

STUDY PRINTS

"Learning about Dinosaur Fossils"

FILMS

In Search of the Dinosaurs

Videos:

Busasaurus - From the "Magic School Bus" series

Music:

Our Dinosaur Friends, For Early Ages

and others such as Fossil Rock

Sincerely,

Your Northside Learning Center Staff

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