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10 05, 2013

Colourful Thank You Letters From Year 2

By Mike|2023-02-16T18:52:28+00:00May 10th, 2013|Educational Activities, Photos/Schools, Press Releases, Teaching|0 Comments

School Children Studying Dinosaurs Say Thank You

A few days ago Everything Dinosaur received a parcel from a teacher at a primary school we had visited (Great Wood Primary). The teacher had asked her pupils to compose a thank you letter and to write about some of things they did during our visit to their school. The parcel contained a set of thank you notes with lots of amazing and very colourful prehistoric animal drawings. There were many different designs, although long-necked dinosaurs (sauropods), proved a particularly popular subject for the front of the card.

Thank You Letters

Dinosaur Themed Thank You Letters

Drawings of long-necked dinosaurs (sauropods) proved to be popular.

Picture credit: James and Olivia

Ellie drew a flying reptile on the front of her card and she enjoyed learning about Tyrannosaurus rex, whilst Amy chose to illustrate her card with lots of pink dinosaurs and liked learning about Triceratops the best. Jake drew a very scary looking dinosaur on his thank you card, Lucy illustrated her card with a spiky dinosaur, Matthew (Matthewosaurus) was particularly impressed with the skull of the armoured dinosaur that he saw.

Our mailbag was full of lovely dinosaur cards.

Picture credit: Elliot and Aki

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Leah wrote that she “learned that T. rex had very big teeth“, Josh sent in a card covered with big ticks and asked how did the dinosaurs come alive? A terrific question Josh, we think that all dinosaurs hatched from eggs, perhaps you can think of animals that are alive today that hatch from eggs, can you and your classmates come up with a list? We loved the big smiling dinosaur on Toby’s card and Spencer wrote a very long letter, recalling lots of facts about dinosaurs that had come up in our work that day. Our thanks to Dylan for his wonderful dinosaur drawing, the big bones that were in one of the boxes were part of the leg bones from a Stegosaurus, well spotted Dylan!

Spinosaurus and Spinosaurs by Max

Max drew a multi-coloured Spinosaurus.

Picture credit: Max

Lots of Fun!

Lucy said that she had lots of fun and liked handling the fossils, she even drew some bones on the front of her card, Ruby had a great time as well and she liked learning about teeth. Isobel sent in a lovely picture of a dinosaur with a big smile, must be a very friendly dinosaur.

Our thanks to all the pupils for creating such wonderful cards and to their teacher for taking time out of her busy schedule to send them into us.

Our Iguanodon gives Great Wood Primary a big “thumbs up”.

Iguanodon Gives the School Children a Big “Thumbs Up”!

Praise from a dinosaur!

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

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14 02, 2013

Talented Young Palaeontologists at Rode Heath Primary School

By Mike|2023-02-12T09:42:12+00:00February 14th, 2013|Educational Activities, Photos/Schools, Teaching|0 Comments

Year 2 Demonstrate their Dinosaur Drawing Skills

Another day and another school visit for Everything Dinosaur, this time to Rode Heath Primary School in Cheshire. The year two children under the tutelage of Mrs Woollam the class teacher, have been studying dinosaurs this term. There was lots of artwork on display including a very colourful wall mural showing, in the foreground, a bright orange Tyrannosaurus rex chomping on a bone.

Rode Heath Primary with their own “Walking with Dinosaurs” Wall Display

A very colourful dinosaur scene.

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Tyrannosaurus rex

The T. rex is heading towards a group of herbivorous dinosaurs. There are horned dinosaurs (Ceratopsians), and an Ankylosaurus whilst amongst the trees two titanosaurs lurk. It is certainly a very impressive mural. Forming a border around the picture there are some cut-out tridactyl (three-toed) dinosaur footprints intermingled with footprints made by the school children.

Year two have been busy making exhibits for their very own dinosaur museum. Teaching Assistant Mrs Hulse was busy taking photographs of the fossils that we brought so that they too could be included in the class museum. Some of the pupils are going to be tour guides for the museum so they will have to “bone up” on lots of dinosaur facts and figures.

Dinosaur Term Topic

Dinosaurs and fossils make an excellent subject for a term topic. Lots and lots of extension activities can be employed to help children develop writing and numeracy skills. For example, Mrs Woollam’s class have been working on their own dinosaur “pop-up” books, showcasing some of the artwork they have produced as well as providing a great platform for creative writing.

Chloe Thompson (aged 7), decided to include a very fierce looking meat-eating dinosaur in her pop-up book. Team members at Everything Dinosaur were very impressed with the big teeth.

Pink and Blue Meat-eating Dinosaur by Chloe Thompson

A very colourful dinosaur.

Picture credit: Chloe Thompson

If you look carefully you can see that Chloe has added some dinosaur bones in the foreground. Part of the lesson covered the different types of dinosaur, herbivore, carnivore and even omnivores.

Millie and her Herbivorous Dinosaur

A sauropod suns himself.

Picture credit: Millie

Millie chose to depict a plant-eating dinosaur in her pop-up book. The sauropod is painted with blues, greens and even a little bit of pink – nice one Millie.

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The pupils have had the chance to explore dinosaur footprints, we showed some bones and the children had guess which part of the dinosaur they were. Jonny (aged 6) depicted a set of dinosaur tracks in his special dinosaur book.

Jonny Illustrates a Set of Dinosaur Footprints

Depicting a dinosaur trackway.

Picture credit: Jonny (aged 6)

The children had prepared lots of questions, including one about Giganotosaurus. We did our best to answer them all and to explain about flying reptiles, dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. The team members at Everything Dinosaur were most impressed with the creative writing, the artwork and the knowledge demonstrated by the children.

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9 11, 2012

Teaching Science in Schools – Some Helpful Advice

By Mike|2024-04-24T17:38:41+01:00November 9th, 2012|Educational Activities, Photos/Schools, Press Releases|0 Comments

Year 4 Meet up with Everything Dinosaur (Year 8 Helped)

An interesting assignment this morning for Everything Dinosaur, working with a number of gifted and talented pupils from feeder Primary schools at Painsley Catholic College (Staffordshire). Rated by OFSTED as “outstanding”, Painsley Catholic College is one of approximately 360 schools in the country that have the designation of being a specialist science school. The facilities at the College are excellent. The well appointed science department is staffed by an enthusiastic and knowledgeable team of teaching staff, laboratory technicians and administrators. It has seven well resourced laboratories, including three ICT rooms designed to fit the needs of key stage three and four pupils. The College also has five teaching laboratories designed to meet the requirements of teaching students aged sixteen plus.

One of the Science Labs at Painsley Catholic College where Everything Dinosaur was Teaching

Well resourced teaching facilities.

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Superb School Facilities

The aim of the science department at the College is to make learning about how things work interesting and exciting and to make all students enthusiastic about learning scientific ideas, encouraging the scientists of the future. The College wants to develop all students’ scientific skills and in an ever developing scientific world, ensure that all our students can embrace new ideas and understanding of the world around them.

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We at Everything Dinosaur share this philosophy and this morning we worked with Year four pupils (aged 8-9) who had come in to the College to learn a little about Earth sciences with one of our teacher/dinosaur experts. Students from Painsley Catholic College, year eight (aged 12-13), had been invited to help with the assignments – studying a dinosaur trackway and exploring some ideas about Triceratops horridus and Tyrannosaurus rex.

Mrs Rolfe, one of the science teachers at the College, took plenty of photographs and we look forward to seeing some of these pictures showing the young scientists hard at work studying fossils and using observation, investigation and evaluation to study scientific principles.

For educational and dinosaur themed games, models and toys: Educational Dinosaur Themed Toys, Models and Games.

28 06, 2010

Taking a Photograph of a Dragonfly Prior to a School Visit to Talk about Rare Fossils

By Mike|2024-04-19T14:56:42+01:00June 28th, 2010|Educational Activities, Photos/Schools, Teaching|0 Comments

Picture of a Dragonfly to Help Teach about Fossils

As team members at Everything Dinosaur prepare for a dinosaur workshop as the Summer term draws to a close, we have been asked to show examples of living creatures that have been around on planet Earth for a long time. Naturally we have dug out our information on the Tuatara from New Zealand, plus information on Horseshoe crabs and other such creatures, all part of our preparations for teaching about dinosaurs with Year 4.

Coincidently, one of our team members spotted a dragonfly emerging from our office pond and they were able to take a photograph whilst this beautiful insect was drying its wings.

A Picture of a Dragonfly

Fossils of Dragonflies preserved from the Carboniferous.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Dragonfly

Always a pleasure to see a member of the Odonta Order emerging from our office pond, such creatures have, very rarely been preserved in the fossil record.

To read an article on the discovery of a dragonfly fossil: Spectacular Insect Fossil from the Eastern USA.

Dragonflies are amazing aerial acrobats and Everything Dinosaur team members enjoy watching them during their office breaks, in between preparing lesson plans for more dinosaur workshops of course.

To view the extensive range of dinosaur and prehistoric animal themed gifts and toys available from Everything Dinosaur’s award-winning website: Visit Everything Dinosaur.

9 02, 2008

A Picture of a Triceratops Dinosaur Model

By Mike|2022-11-09T11:37:39+00:00February 9th, 2008|Everything Dinosaur Products, Photos/Schools|0 Comments

Triceratops Dinosaur Model Pictured

When it comes to horned dinosaurs (Ceratopsians), the most popular member of this particular clade of the Dinosauria amongst boys, girls and general fans of dinosaur models is Triceratops (T. horridus). To celebrate this and in tribute to all those emails and letters we receive asking for Everything Dinosaur to post up pictures of “three horned face” we have popped up a picture of the Schleich Triceratops.

To view the Schleich prehistoric animal model range available from Everything Dinosaur: Schleich Prehistoric Animal Figures.

Picturing a Horned Dinosaur (T. horridus)

Schleich Triceratops.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Schleich Triceratops Dinosaur Model

Schleich, the German based manufacturer, have produced a number of dinosaur models. Triceratops has always featured prominently in Schleich dinosaur model lists and it is likely that this perennial favourite will continue to feature in dinosaur model and prehistoric animal replica ranges.

To view Schleich dinosaur and prehistoric animals: Dinosaur and Prehistoric Animal Models.

17 06, 2007

Dinosaurs for Schools with Everything Dinosaur

By Mike|2022-10-26T09:12:02+01:00June 17th, 2007|Everything Dinosaur News and Updates, Photos/Schools|0 Comments

Everything Dinosaur Prepares for Another Dinosaur Workshop in School

With the summer term drawing to a close, time to cement those facts about dinosaurs in the minds of children who have been studying prehistoric animals as part of their topics for the term. Everything Dinosaur team members are busy packing experiments, equipment and fossils for more visits to schools to teach about fossils, dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

Ready for Another School Visit

Ready for Business!

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

With lesson plans and teaching sessions aimed at children at Foundation Stage right up to Key Stage four and beyond, the Everything Dinosaur team members have been very busy over the last few months. All their dinosaur themed teaching work mirrors the National Curriculum and after a dinosaur workshop, staff are always keen to help out and advise on extension activities. Team members will be writing new lesson plans and schemes of work over the summer months in readiness for teaching about dinosaurs in school over the autumn term.

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