Foundation Stage/Year 1/Year 2 Study Dinosaurs and Fossils – Exploring Dinosaurs and Fossils
Children at Hadfield Infant School have had a busy day learning all about dinosaurs, fossils and life in the past. The children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 have started a term topic all about prehistoric animals. Some of the children found a “dinosaur egg” in their classroom, what type of dinosaur could have laid such a big egg?
Exploring Dinosaurs
The egg had started to hatch and sure enough, the children had a baby dinosaur to look after. We hope that they will learn all about dinosaur plant-eaters and meat-eaters so that they can work out what to feed it!
The Dinosaur Egg in One of the Classrooms
Schoolchildren discover dinosaur egg. A teaching resource for a dinosaur and fossils term topic. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.
Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur
What if the Dinosaur Escapes?
What would happen if the baby dinosaur escaped one evening? Where would the dinosaur go? Can the children follow the dinosaur’s travels around the world?
Our dinosaur expert felt very much at home at the school today. On the wall in the hall where he had been working was a big picture with lots of bones in it. The children learned that scientists look at the fossilised bones of dinosaurs so that they can work out what they looked like and how they lived.
A Great Backdrop for a Dinosaur Workshop
Learning all about fossil bones of dinosaurs. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.
Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur
Everything Dinosaur Answering Questions
With the enthusiastic support of the teaching team the children will have a wonderful and engaging topic to study up to the end of the spring term. There were so many amazing questions asked during the day, questions such as what was the biggest crocodile of all time? How big were the plates on the back of Stegosaurus? Good job the children had been working on their phonics to help them work out the difference between big, bigger and biggest.
We sent over some extension resources to help the teaching team answer some of the questions that we did not get round to in our dinosaur workshop. We think this term topic is going to be a “roaring success”!
To view Everything Dinosaur’s website: Everything Dinosaur.
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