Dinosaur Tales

"This workshop excited [the students], taught them new vocabulary and brought the experience to life.  They have been digging for bones on the playground ever since. "

Helen Handley, K-1st Grade teacher

Workshop Overview: The Dinosaur Tales workshop, in CCM’s Dinosaur Expedition exhibit, features a reconstructed dig site. Students will experience the excitement of discovering a new species of carnivorous dinosaur in the Sahara and explore what it might be like to walk and roar like a dinosaur. Dramatic play, creative movement, and science all meet in this imaginative and hands-on workshop.

Dinosaur Tales Curriculum Guide

Grade Level: Age 3-Kindergarten

Illinois State Learning Standards: 4, 5, 7, 11, 12, 17

Workshop Goals and Objectives:
Students will:

• Explore the Dinosaur Expedition exhibit together.
• Collaborate to unearth fossils buried in our reconstructed dig site.
• Observe a dinosaur skeleton, and make connections between a dinosaur body and a human body.
• Explore the difference in size between a dinosaur and a person through active play.
• Make hypotheses about Suchomimus, our resident dinosaur, and explore possible answers.
• Use dramatic play to learn about the physical features unique to dinosaurs.
• Participate in song, dance, and story telling activities that bring the world of dinosaurs to life.

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