Dinosaur Themed Questions and Answers
Following a morning of delivering dinosaur and fossil themed workshops with two classes of Year 2 children at Great Wood Primary (Morecambe, Lancashire), the children had prepared some fantastic questions and after packing away his equipment our dinosaur expert was invited into the classroom for a question and answer session.
Prior to his visit, the children had been introduced to the term topic and the teaching team had used the K.W.L. technique to tease out from class what they thought they knew about dinosaurs and what they would like to learn about. From this group brainstorming session, the children used post-it notes to jot down questions that they would like to put to the visitor from Everything Dinosaur.
An Amazing Collection of Questions Compiled for Everything Dinosaur
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Questions About Dinosaurs (K.W.L. Teaching Technique)
The K.W.L. acronym stands for what you KNOW, WHAT you would like to know and at the end of the teaching programme – what you have LEARNED. This teaching method aids teachers and helps them to plan a topic area and to check understanding and learning. It consists of three phases, firstly, the children brainstorm and say what they think they know about prehistoric animals. During the brainstorming session, the children will make statements and assertions that provide the teaching team with details as to what the children would like to find out about dinosaurs. The third part of the technique, which is conducted at the end of the term topic or period of learning, highlights what the children have learned. This third phase permits the teaching team to check understanding and gives them the opportunity to reinforce leaning if required, for example, if any weak areas are identified.
Posted Up on the Classroom Wall – Lots of Questions About Dinosaurs
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