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    This unit plan introduces students to dinosaurs through various activities. Students will go on a field trip to a natural science museum, read books about dinosaurs, and name a class dinosaur. They will learn about plant-eating and meat-eating dinosaurs through creating charts. Students will write sentences using vocabulary words, research dinosaurs that still exist today, and present what they've learned. Assessment includes completing a KWL chart and labeling pictures. The unit culminates in students writing stories about dinosaurs they adopt and creating pictures of themselves as dinosaurs.

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    This unit plan introduces students to dinosaurs through various activities. Students will go on a field trip to a natural science museum, read books about dinosaurs, and name a class dinosaur. They will learn about plant-eating and meat-eating dinosaurs through creating charts. Students will write sentences using vocabulary words, research dinosaurs that still exist today, and present what they've learned. Assessment includes completing a KWL chart and labeling pictures. The unit culminates in students writing stories about dinosaurs they adopt and creating pictures of themselves as dinosaurs.

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    This unit plan introduces students to dinosaurs through various activities. Students will go on a field trip to a natural science museum, read books about dinosaurs, and name a class dinosaur. They will learn about plant-eating and meat-eating dinosaurs through creating charts. Students will write sentences using vocabulary words, research dinosaurs that still exist today, and present what they've learned. Assessment includes completing a KWL chart and labeling pictures. The unit culminates in students writing stories about dinosaurs they adopt and creating pictures of themselves as dinosaurs.

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    This unit plan introduces students to dinosaurs through various activities. Students will go on a field trip to a natural science museum, read books about dinosaurs, and name a class dinosaur. They will learn about plant-eating and meat-eating dinosaurs through creating charts. Students will write sentences using vocabulary words, research dinosaurs that still exist today, and present what they've learned. Assessment includes completing a KWL chart and labeling pictures. The unit culminates in students writing stories about dinosaurs they adopt and creating pictures of themselves as dinosaurs.

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    Grade 3

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    By Katie Anne McGovern

    Introduction
    In this unit my students will learn about dinosaurs.
    • We will go on a field trip to the Academy of Natural Science of Drexel University.
    • We will read the book Discovering Dinosaurs by Myka-Lynne Sokoloff and Greg Harris
    • I will have them a KWL chart
    • We will get a class dinosaur (stuffed dinosaur) and name it as a class

    Text Set
    • Pfister, M. (1994) Dazzle The Dinosaur
    • Hoff, S. (1958) Danny And The Dinosaur
    • Zoehfeld, K.W and Washburn, L (1999) Dinosaur Babies
    • Aliki (1985) Dinosaurs Are Different
    • Sokoloff, M.L and Harris. G (1997) Discovering Dinosaurs
    • Rowe, E and Smith, M (1973) Giant Dinosaurs

    Word Wall
    Dinosaurs Descriptives
    Barosaurus Meat-Eaters
    Irsosaurus Plant-Eaters
    Elaphrosaurs Fossils
    Brachiosaurus Giant
    Stegosaurus Fierce
    Tyrannosaurus rex Duck-Bil
    Velociraptors
    Trachodon
    Brontosaurus
    Brachiosaurus
    Diplodocus
    Triceratops
    Iguanodon
    Pterosauria
    Sauruschia
    Orithischis

    Big Ideas
    • They will make a table and separate the dinosaurs into plant-eaters and meat-eaters
    • They will create a dinosaur and write about and what they would feed it
    • They will write five sentences using the word wall
    • Find what dinosaurs are still around today

    Instructional Activities
    • Reading- the books from the set will be in the class library along with other books they
    can read on their own
    • Listening- there will be audio for the books in the set they can listen to
    • Social Studies- we will look at a map and look where dinosaurs were first found
    • Speaking- They will present the dinosaur that they created, and they will also present the
    dinosaur charts
    • Science- we will use a dinosaur fossil kit and find fossils by digging
    • Writing- they will use the word wall and create sentences
    • Music- There is a playlist on apple music about dinosaurs I will play for them
    • Physical Education- We will learn how to walk like a dinosaur
    • Art- The dinosaur they created will be painted or colored and hung around the room
    • Math- We will look up how long different dinosaurs are and figure out which is the
    biggest and the shortest
    Assessment
    • They will fill out the “L” on the KWL chart
    • They will label pictures of dinosaurs
    • They will write down their favorite and most interesting thing they learned in the unit

    Culminating Projects
    • They will “adopt” a dinosaur and write a story on it
    • They will take pictures of each of the kids and have them color a dinosaur and attach
    their face on the dinosaur and put them all around the room

    Resources
    Apple music
    Keiss Library

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