Teaching - Part 36

3 09, 2016

A Set of Special Model Dinosaur Skulls for School

By Mike|2024-05-06T08:50:29+01:00September 3rd, 2016|Categories: General Teaching|Comments Off on A Set of Special Model Dinosaur Skulls for School

Model Dinosaur Skulls for Use in Classrooms

The enthusiastic teaching team at Everything Dinosaur have been busy advising teachers and teaching assistants as they prepare for the start of the academic year. Many schools are undertaking a term topic on dinosaurs this autumn and Everything Dinosaur has a wide range of dinosaur themed teaching resources available, all designed to meet the learning needs of children as well as the objectives of the teaching team.

Model Dinosaur Skulls

Whether it’s the creative curriculum and “footprints in the past”, the “Jurassic forest” or “the land before time” dinosaurs as a term topic lends itself to all sorts of creative and imaginative teaching ideas that can support literacy, numeracy as well as introducing the concept of working scientifically.

A Set of Model Dinosaur Fossil Skulls

Dinosaur fossil skull models, ideal for school.

A set of eleven dinosaur fossil skulls.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

To view the skull model set and other prehistoric animal themed models from Everything Dinosaur: Everything Dinosaur Educational Products and Teaching Materials.

Herbivore, Omnivore or Carnivore?

The set of eleven dinosaur fossil skull models can be used for sorting games and/or identifying (from the skull, jaws and teeth), the diet of the dinosaur. Ask the class to see if they can name the particular dinosaur that the skull model represents, the set features a mix of well-known and lesser known dinosaurs so this is a great way to differentiate, Fortunately, for customers of Everything Dinosaur, we supply a handy key to help the teaching team work out which dinosaur skull is which.

Everything Dinosaur Supplies a Handy Identification Guide with Each Set of Model Fossil Skulls

Everything Dinosaur helping to identify dinosaur skulls.

Identifying dinosaur skulls.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

A Lesson Plan Idea

A teacher could split the class up into eleven groups. Each group of children could be given their own dinosaur skull to research, can they produce a science poster all about their dinosaur? Can the children create a fact sheet all about their particular dinosaur? Once the children have studied their dinosaur skull model and prepared some facts and information about it, you could challenge each group to make a short presentation to the rest of the class about the dinosaur. Typical things for them to find out include:

When did it live?
What is the dinosaurs name?
Where did it live?
What did it eat?
How big was it?
What does its name mean?

At Everything Dinosaur we are mindful of the need to stretch teaching resources, the models can be used over and over again and they can play a role in helping older children learn about adaptation, evolution and natural selection too.

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2 09, 2016

Remarkable Dinosaur Fossil Skulls as Helpful Teaching Aids

By Mike|2024-05-06T08:51:32+01:00September 2nd, 2016|Categories: Dinosaur Fans, Educational Activities, Everything Dinosaur Products, Main Page, Teaching|0 Comments

A Set of Eleven Dinosaur Skulls

At this time of year, more so than any other time of year, our offices are inundated with requests from teachers and teaching assistants regarding information on suitable dinosaur themed teaching resources for school. With many of the Everything Dinosaur team members having a background in education, we do appreciate how busy educationalists are at the moment as they prepare for the start of the new academic year.

Dinosaur Fossil Skull Models

We have been helping a number of teaching teams as they prepare to introduce dinosaurs as a term topic theme. Working under the “land before time” or the creative curriculum’s “footprints in the past”, Everything Dinosaur is able to advise and assist with the preparation of schemes of work. Take for example, the Year 2 teacher who contacted our office this week, with a request to help provide suitable resources for her class of eager seven year-olds.

We recommended a set of model dinosaur skulls (Safari Ltd dinosaur skulls), and we helped the teacher further by providing additional information on each of the dinosaurs featured in this eleven piece model set.

A Set of Dinosaur Fossil Skulls Ideal for School

A set of eleven dinosaur fossil skulls.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Herbivore, Carnivore or Omnivore?

These well made and quite accurate plastic replicas represent herbivores, carnivores and even an omnivore. Can the class work out what the dinosaurs ate by examining the skulls? Can they identify a potential omnivore? Naturally, this is a great way to help reinforce understanding regarding the terms herbivore, carnivore and omnivore. Can the children identify living carnivores, omnivores and herbivores? Where do human beings fit into this?

To view the dinosaur skulls and to see the range of other prehistoric animal models and replicas Everything Dinosaur offers: Wild Safari Prehistoric World Dinosaurs.

Identifying Dinosaurs by their Skull Shape

The dinosaur skull set provides lots of scope for independent research on dinosaurs and for sorting games. For example, we recommend that the fossil skulls be buried in a small sand tray and then the children can have a go at excavating fossils using old art brushes and other digging tools. What sort of tools would a palaeontologist use? One teacher split his class into eleven groups and gave each group a different skull. Each group was then challenged to produce a science poster with lots of facts about their dinosaur.

Dinosaur Skull Models

Identifying dinosaur skulls.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Commenting on the use of the skulls in education a spokesperson from Everything Dinosaur stated:

“These robust models are great for creative teaching projects. Using inexpensive props such as these, teaching teams can conduct all sorts of lesson activities that appeal to all types of learners. The fossil models are very kinaesthetic and children love to handle them and they are very well made and accurately represent real dinosaur fossil skulls. These models not only help children learn about individual dinosaurs but they can gain an appreciation of the diversity of the Dinosauria and how different types of prehistoric animal adapted to particular ecological niches.”

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30 08, 2016

“Lucy” Famous Fossil Hominin Died in a Fall

By Mike|2023-05-06T20:53:02+01:00August 30th, 2016|Categories: General Teaching, Key Stage 3/4|Comments Off on “Lucy” Famous Fossil Hominin Died in a Fall

“Lucy” Australopithecus afarensis Died in a Fall

In 1974, in the Afar region of Ethiopia, the remarkably well-preserved and forty percent complete fossil of an ancient human-like animal was discovered. The excavation team, which included American palaeoanthropologist Donald Carl Johanson, had been playing the track “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” by the Beatles.

“Lucy” The Famous Fossil Hominin

The bones represented a female, which subsequently was nicknamed “Lucy”. The fossils represented a new species of ancient hominin (an animal more closely related to us than to a chimpanzee), the species was named Australopithecus afarensis. Thanks to some amazing new research, a team of Ethiopian and American scientists, including eminent anthropologist Professor John Kappelman (University of Texas), have worked out how “Lucy” died – apparently she was fatally injured in a fall from a tree.

Professor John Kappelman Surrounded by Fossils and Casts of Early Hominins

Professor Kappelman (University of Texax)

Professor Kappelman examines casts of “Lucy” – A. afarensis.

Picture credit: University of Texas

Forty-Five Thousand CT Images

The team scanned the fossil bones of this female A. afarensis whilst the fossils were on a tour of the United States. In total, some 45,000 highly detailed CT scans were produced. The scans revealed that the extensive fractures on the bones were most likely caused perimortem (at death or shortly before death). An analysis of the broken bones led the team to postulate that 3.2 million year old “Lucy” was fatally injured after a rapid vertical deceleration event, probably a fall from a tree.

For model and replicas of prehistoric animals including hominins: Wild Safari Prehistoric World Figures and Models.

The Demise of “Lucy” Australopithecus afarensis

Lucy (A. afarensis) sudden deceleration event.

A reconstruction explaining the fatal injuries to “Lucy” – A. afarensis after a fall from a tree.

Picture credit: University of Texas

Applying New Technologies to Learn More About Fossils

A spokesperson from Everything Dinosaur commented that this “cold case” showed how scientists can use a variety of techniques to learn more about the lives and behaviours of ancient animals from the fossil record.

This study is significant as anthropologists have long debated how much time A. afarensis spent in trees. Being able climb into a tree would have helped keep these small hominins safe from many predators, however, evolutionary adaptations to bipedal walking may have compromised their climbing abilities. Bad news for “Lucy”, but this new research published in the journal “Nature” has provided a fascinating new dimension into the behaviour of an ancient human-like creature.

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21 08, 2016

Learning Life Skills – The Achievosaurs

By Mike|2023-05-06T17:38:48+01:00August 21st, 2016|Categories: Educational Activities, Main Page, Teaching|0 Comments

The Achievosaurs Soft Toys

Teachers and teaching assistants all round the country are busy finalising their schemes of work in readiness for the new term and Everything Dinosaur team members have been helping. Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) children have been benefiting from an innovative use of dinosaur and prehistoric animal soft toys – the Achievosaurs and Everything Dinosaur has been busy supplying schools and other educational establishments with fluffy and soft prehistoric animal plush in preparation for the start of the autumn term.

“Askaraptor” One of the Achievosaurs from Everything Dinosaur

A Utahraptor dinosaur soft and cuddly toy.

“Askaraptor” – a Utahraptor dinosaur soft toy.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

For children in Foundation Stage classes (Nursery and Reception), the start of a new term can be quite daunting. However, teaching teams are tasked with introducing key learning skills at a young age.

The “Achievosaurs”, a group of soft toy prehistoric animals can help children to develop these key skills. In essence, the Achievosaurs, or as they are sometimes called “the Achieveosaurs”, with the extra “e”, aims to teach children about positive ways in which they can improve their ability to learn. These qualities include being prepared to ask questions, to share ideas and thoughts and to persevere. To help reinforce learning the children are incentivised by being able to look after the dinosaur soft toy which epitomises the learning skill that they have demonstrated.

Adopting the Achievosaurs Learning Concept

A large number of schools have adopted the Achievosaurs learning concept across the EYFS cohort and into Year 1. The dinosaur soft toys often link with a term topic whereby the children study dinosaurs and fossils, for example “the Jurassic Forest” scheme of work.

Achievosaurs Helping to Reinforce Life-Long Learning Skills

Helping to reinforce life-long learning skills.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Dinosaur Soft Toys

To purchase dinosaur soft toys to make up your own learning skills Achievosaurs set: Dinosaur Soft Toys.

Here is a list of some of the key learning skills that can be reinforced through the use of the Achievosaurs teaching concept:

ASKARAPTOR – I can use my imagination and ask interesting questions (based on a “raptor” dinosaur such as Velociraptor or Utahraptor regarded as some of the more intelligent and agile of all the dinosaurs).

EXPLORASOR – I like to explore ideas and I enjoy new experiences.

SOLVEOSAURUS REX – I can solve problems and improve (based on T. rex the most famous dinosaur of all).

STICKASAURUS – I stick at tasks and persevere (based on Stegosaurus a popular, plant eating dinosaur with plates on its back).

THINKODOCUS – I think carefully about what I learn (based on the big, plant-eating dinosaur called Diplodocus).

TRYCERATOPS – I try new things, don’t give up and work really hard (based on Triceratops, a very well known horned dinosaur with three horns).

A spokesperson from Everything Dinosaur commented:

“One of the great things about the Achievosaurs learning concept is that you can create your own Achievosaurs to suit the particular needs of each class. For example, we were informed by a Nursery teacher that one of her charges, an only child, had difficulty integrating into the class and found it hard to share things with the other children. The teaching assistant created “Shareosaurus”, so that this child could be rewarded when they shared items with their classmates.”

Preparations for Later on in Life

These important skills can help prepare children for learning later on in life. Teachers and teaching assistants can come up with their on variants and new additions, however, the trouble is, identifying soft toys that represent the likes of Diplodocus and Tyrannosaurus rex. The experts at Everything Dinosaur can help.

With the support of Everything Dinosaur’s trained specialists, teachers can utilise a child’s fascination with dinosaurs to help reinforce important life lessons. Enthusing and motivating children to learn by using dinosaur soft toys in school.

Team members from the company also visit schools to delivery practical, lively and very kinaesthetic dinosaur themed workshops:

To read more about Everything Dinosaur: About Everything Dinosaur.

10 08, 2016

Why Would a Dinosaur Not Make a Good Pet?

By Mike|2023-05-06T14:49:59+01:00August 10th, 2016|Categories: General Teaching, Key Stage 1/2|Comments Off on Why Would a Dinosaur Not Make a Good Pet?

Why Would a Dinosaur Not Make a Good Pet?

Around the country lots of teachers are busy organising their next scheme of work in conjunction with the national curriculum. With the autumn term fast approaching, Everything Dinosaur takes time out to consider one of the term topic themes that has been proposed in support of the science element of the national curriculum in England. It is important with a subject like science to try and start from a concept that appeals to the child, dinosaurs and fossils tend to be very popular and most teachers find a ready, eager and very enthusiastic audience when prehistoric life is part of the teaching programme.

Studying Dinosaurs Helps to Enthuse Young Learners

Children playing with dinosaur and prehistoric animal models.

Picture credit: Schleich

The models in the image are from Schleich.

To view the range of Schleich prehistoric animal figures: Schleich Dinosaur Models.

Foundation Stage Through to Upper Key Stage 2

Learning about life in the past and fossils intersects with the learning programmes of many Year groups within the new curriculum. For example, Year 3 children have the opportunity to learn about rocks and fossils and Year 6 pupils are challenged to study natural selection, adaptation and evolution. For younger children, building a term topic with a science theme can start with asking an intriguing question posed from the child’s point of view (the child’s context). An example of this is the question why would a dinosaur not make a good pet?

Dinosaurs as Pets

Ironically, as birds are technically dinosaurs, many dinosaurs make excellent pets, just ask a pigeon fancier, but that’s not quite the point. Although we, at Everything Dinosaur do build in the dinosaur/bird link into our workshop activities, feathers and all. The question can form the basis of a varied and exciting programme of discovery that links nicely across the curriculum. Many teaching teams use the “learning challenge” method, whereby, a different question related to the term topic is explored each week. For example:

Term Topic Question – Why Would a Dinosaur not Make a Good Pet?

Week 1 question – What is a dinosaur?
2 question – When did dinosaurs live?
3 question – How do we know about dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals?
4 question – What does a palaeontologist do?
5 question – What happened to the dinosaurs?
Week 6 summation – Would a dinosaur make a good pet?

Lots of Links to Literacy, Numeracy, History, Geography and Other Curriculum Elements

Lots of dinosaur and prehistoric animal facts on a poster.

Dinosaur facts compiled by Year 1 children.

Dinosaur Fascination

Children are fascinated with dinosaurs. Learning about dinosaurs can provide a teaching team with lots of lesson plan ideas. Lesson plans can be tailored to support literacy and numeracy.

To learn more about Everything Dinosaur: About Everything Dinosaur.

With Key Stage 1 children in particular, every opportunity should be taken when it comes to engaging the children and developing literacy and numeracy themes. However, children whatever their age, if they can be enthused and inspired by a topic then they will quickly pick up and cement life-long learning skills.

Visit the child-friendly Everything Dinosaur website: Everything Dinosaur.

28 07, 2016

Exclusive Dinosaur Themed Summer Schools

By Mike|2024-05-06T08:37:59+01:00July 28th, 2016|Categories: General Teaching|Comments Off on Exclusive Dinosaur Themed Summer Schools

Everything Dinosaur and Summer Schools

The school holidays in the United Kingdom might be in full swing but for Everything Dinosaur’s intrepid teaching team the outreach work with schools does not stop. The fossil and dinosaur experts have committed to a number of summer school sessions once again and team members are fitting in school visits in amongst their various other projects including fossil hunting and field work. Yesterday, was typical for the Everything Dinosaur teaching team. There was a summer school workshop in the morning and a second dinosaur themed workshop at another school in the afternoon. In total, something like sixty children ranging in age from six years to twelve years of age were treated to some dinosaur and fossil fun.

Preparing Mini Fossil Dig Kits for Use at Summer Schools

A super hands on activity for FS2

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

The photograph above shows a special fossil dig site. It had been prepared prior to a summer school visit. In a typical two-hour session, the children explored dinosaurs and handled real fossils of prehistoric animals. Fossil casts were made of giant shark teeth and various dinosaur bones and teeth. Our dinosaur experts were on hand to help the budding young palaeontologists hunt for fossils using the mini fossil digs that had been prepared.

For educational, dinosaur themed toys and games: Educational Dinosaur Toys, Gifts and Games.

The excited and enthusiastic children had fun identifying teeth from prehistoric sharks, bivalves, brachiopods, rugose corals, ammonites and belemnite guards. A couple of pieces of fossilised bone were also discovered in the carefully prepared dig kits our teaching team had got ready. Best of all, the children got to keep the fossils that they found.

Summer School Activities

With child care difficult to obtain and in some cases, very expensive, summer schools provide a wonderful resource for parents and guardians who are not able to spend as much time with their children as they would like over the holiday period. Summer schools offer a wide range of activities and the best run providers work hard to ensure that the workshops they deliver support learning and personal development.

Tyrannosaurus rex Features in One of Everything Dinosaur’s Summer School Games

Rebor "retrosaur" Californiacation T. rex figure has an articulated jaw.

The Rebor “retrosaur” Californiacation T. rex figure has an articulated lower jaw.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

For models of Tyrannosaurus rex and other prehistoric animals: Wild Safari Prehistoric World Models and Figures.

A spokesperson from Everything Dinosaur commented:

“Summer schools provide a range of activities for children and the very best schemes provide support to the national curriculum and help with learning as well as the development of life-long social skills. Our dinosaur and fossil themed workshops are extremely popular and we tend to be inundated with requests from summer scheme providers. This makes juggling our other commitments to museums and our own field work quite difficult. Still, it’s all in a day’s work for our team members.”

We wish all summer school providers and volunteers every success with their summer school programmes.

Contact Everything Dinosaur

Organisers of summer school schemes can contact Everything Dinosaur to enquire about our science outreach work: Contact Everything Dinosaur.

24 07, 2016

New Dinosaur Themed Stationery and School Kits

By Mike|2024-05-06T08:39:08+01:00July 24th, 2016|Categories: General Teaching|Comments Off on New Dinosaur Themed Stationery and School Kits

Back to School with Everything Dinosaur

Dinosaur and prehistoric animal themed stationery and school kits are very popular with schoolchildren at the moment. Thanks to Everything Dinosaur, mums, dads, grandparents and guardians are spoilt for choice when it comes to kitting out their budding, young palaeontologists in readiness for the autumn term. The summer holidays may have started in the UK, but we, at Everything Dinosaur are already busy with plans for the autumn and spring terms. Parents, grandparents and guardians are also preparing for next term as they kit out their charges with school kits, lunch boxes and new backpacks.

Everything Dinosaur and Back to School

Let’s take a look at some of Everything Dinosaur’s great range of dinosaur themed pens, pencils, stationery, notepads and backpacks, a sort of review of “dinosaurs for school”

A Great Range of Dinosaur and Prehistoric Themed School Items from Everything Dinosaur

Back to school items available from Everything Dinosaur.

Back to school stationery available from Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Dinosaurs for School

Send your young palaeontologists off to school next term with this fantastic range of dinosaur and prehistoric animal themed school stationery, pens, pencils and notepads. Take a dinosaur to school or out on your own fossil finding adventures with Everything Dinosaur’s huge range of back to school supplies.

Dinosaur themed school accessories: Dinosaur Themed Back to School Items.

When it comes to getting dinosaur fans ready for school, Everything Dinosaur has just about everything any young palaeontologist might require. Pencils, pens, art materials, books, school sets and even school lunch boxes (all dinosaur themed), Everything Dinosaur has just about everything covered.

Dinosaur Themed School Kits from Everything Dinosaur

back to school with Everything Dinosaur.

pens, pencils, lunchboxes, pencil cases, school kits all with a dinosaur theme.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

The Autumn term is likely to be busy with a number of teaching sessions and programmes already sorted with Everything Dinosaur building on the national curriculum and the International Primary Curriculum (IPC) for schools.

For further information about Everything Dinosaur: About Everything Dinosaur.

24 07, 2016

Back to School with Everything Dinosaur

By Mike|2023-05-04T07:23:10+01:00July 24th, 2016|Categories: Dinosaur Fans, Educational Activities, Photos of Everything Dinosaur Products, Press Releases, Teaching|0 Comments

Fantastic Dinosaur Themed Back to School Items from Everything Dinosaur

No sooner do the schools break up then our thoughts are turning to the Autumn Term. The teaching team at Everything Dinosaur are already booked up quite a lot for both next term and into the Spring but there are still some dates available for our dinosaur workshops in school. However, just as teachers commence preparations for their scheme of work to be delivered next term, so parents too are planning ahead.

Back to School with Everything Dinosaur

Mums and dads, grandparents and guardians will be turning their thoughts to kitting out their charges ready for when the children go back to school. For budding young palaeontologists Everything Dinosaur has a huge range of prehistoric animal themed school items, from pencils through to lunchboxes and backpacks, Everything Dinosaur has getting ready for school covered.

Some of the Dinosaur Themed Back to School Items Available from Everything Dinosaur

Back to school stationery available from Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Whether you are looking for notepads with a dinosaur motif, or pens and pencils so that young dinosaur fans can jot down their discoveries, Everything Dinosaur is the place to go to find back to school prehistoric animal themed school sets and stationery.

Back to School stock in stock at Everything Dinosaur: Dinosaur Themed Educational Items and Toys.

There are school kits, dinosaur stationery sets, soft and cuddly back packs, pencil cases, notebooks, notepads and a whole range of other items, a list as long as a the neck of a Tanystropheus – there is plenty of choice, enough to make even the most reluctant school child roar in approval like an angry Tyrannosaurus rex.

Back to School with Everything Dinosaur

Dinosaur pens available from Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Notes for Teachers

As for our popular dinosaur and fossil themed workshops in schools, our team members are booked up well into the Spring term. However, there are some dates still available and for further information about Everything Dinosaur’s work in schools, simply visit the link below for further information.

Contact Everything Dinosaur to learn more about our science outreach work: Contact Everything Dinosaur.

15 07, 2016

Thank You Letters from Year 1

By Mike|2023-05-03T07:51:29+01:00July 15th, 2016|Categories: Key Stage 1/2|Comments Off on Thank You Letters from Year 1

Forden Church in Wales School Send in Letters

Following our morning of dinosaur workshops with Year 1 children at Forden Church in Wales School, we challenged the Year 1 children to write in to Everything Dinosaur to tell us about what they have learned and what their favourite part of the workshop was. We received a lovely set of thank you letters from the class.

Jessica Sent Everything Dinosaur a Thank You Letter

Picture credit: Forden Church in Wales School (Arthur)

Arthur wrote in to say that he enjoyed holding the fossils. We loved the Tyrannosaurus rex model that Arthur chose to illustrate his thank you letter with. Jack liked learning new words, he now knows where on a dinosaur is the skull. Can he point to his own skull? Now that’s a good test for a budding scientist.

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Hollie Wrote to Everything Dinosaur

A thank you letter from Hollie.

Picture credit: Forden Church in Wales School (Jack)

Writing Extension Activity from Everything Dinosaur

Mrs Davies (class teacher) explained:

“Year 1 children have written to thank you for the fabulous morning you shared with us. They have been learning how to take photographs on the iPad and import them into a different document. We hope you enjoy reading them.”

We certainly enjoyed all the letters that we received from Forden Church in Wales School, our dinosaur and fossil experts tend to get a lot of correspondence from schools and we enjoy reading them all. Chloe chose to illustrate her typed letter with a Stegosaurus, she thanked us for letting her hold the fossils and she liked learning about the dinosaur skull.

Thank You Letters from Schoolchildren

In Jodie’s letter she explained how much she enjoyed taking part in the activities and that she had been amazed by how cold some fossils can feel. In our dinosaur and fossil themed workshop we made sure that there were lots of opportunities for the budding young palaeontologists to handle fossils, even some gigantic ones!

For replicas of iconic animals from the fossil record and dinosaur toys: Replica Fossils and Dinosaur Crafts for Kids.

A big thank you from Everything Dinosaur to the children in class 1 (Faye, Logan, Ellie, Evan, William, Hollie, Jessica, Arthur, Jack, Chloe and Jodie) for sending in such super letters.

15 07, 2016

Year 1 Send Letters to Everything Dinosaur

By Mike|2023-05-03T07:43:50+01:00July 15th, 2016|Categories: Educational Activities, Main Page, Teaching|0 Comments

Year 1 at Forden Church in Wales School Send Letters

The children in Year 1 at Forden Church in Wales School have been studying dinosaurs and prehistoric animals this term. The young scientists have been learning all about fossils and life in the past. A team member from Everything Dinosaur visited the school for a morning last month to show the children fossils and to teach them about dinosaurs. Our fossil expert challenged the children in Year 1 to write letters to Everything Dinosaur and sure enough, yesterday, we received a lovely set of dinosaur themed letters from the children.

Everything Dinosaur

Year 1 Children Send in Letters to Everything Dinosaur

Examples of the dinosaur themed letters sent in.

Picture credit: Forden Church in Wales School (Ellie, Evan, Faye and Logan)

Year 1 Learning About Technology

Mrs Davies, the enthusiastic teacher, explained that her class had written thank you letters after the fabulous morning of workshops with Everything Dinosaur. Year 1 have been learning how to take photographs on the iPad and import them into a different document, the children have also been showing off their typing skills too.

Learning About the Biggest Meat-Eating Dinosaurs

William learnt about meat-eating dinosaurs.

A thank you letter from William.

Picture credit: Forden Church in Wales School (William)

William now knows that Spinosaurus was bigger than Tyrannosaurus rex. Hollie was amazed by all the fossils and she enjoyed playing the games.

Most Real Fossils Feel Cold When You Touch Them

A thank you letter from Hollie.

Picture credit: Forden Church in Wales School (Hollie)

Thank You Letters

Hollie chose to illustrate her thank you letter to Everything Dinosaur using a model of a Pteranodon (flying reptile). Jodie was amazed by all the fossils and she now knows that when you touch a fossil it feels cold! Jodie also chose to illustrate her letter with a Pteranodon. Jessica on the other hand, selected a wonderful model of a duck-billed dinosaur, a big plant-eater called Parasaurolophus for her letter. She liked having her picture taken with the fossils.

For models of pterosaurs and other types of dinosaur: CollectA Age of Dinosaurs Popular Range.

Jessica’s Letter and the Parasaurolophus Model

A thank you note to Everything Dinosaur.

After the dinosaur workshop, Jessica wrote in to thank us.

Picture credit: Forden Church in Wales School (Jessica)

A big thank you to all the children in Year 1 who sent in letters to Everything Dinosaur (Chloe, Arthur, Jack, Jodie, Jessica, Hollie, William, Evan, Ellie, Logan and Faye). A special thank you to the teachers and staff at Forden Church in Wales School, for assisting the Year 1 children in their letter writing extension activity.

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