Teaching - Part 38

Everything Dinosaur team members working in schools, helping museums and other educational bodies. Our work with and in schools.

17 06, 2016

Happy Teachers, Happy Pupils Learning About Amazing Dinosaurs

By Mike|2024-05-06T06:48:46+01:00June 17th, 2016|Categories: General Teaching, Key Stage 1/2, Key Stage 3/4|Comments Off on Happy Teachers, Happy Pupils Learning About Amazing Dinosaurs

Abercrombie Primary School – Supporting Science Teaching

An eventful week this week for Everything Dinosaur team members. Our busy schedule included a trip to Abercrombie Primary in Chesterfield (Derbyshire) to take part in two days of science themed teaching in support of the English national curriculum. Everything Dinosaur had been invited to the school to delivery a dinosaur workshop. Over the course of the eventful and exciting two days our dinosaur and fossil expert worked with the Key Stage 1 children (Year 2) and the whole of Key Stage 2 (Year 3, 4, 5 and Year 6).

Dinosaur Workshop

During the Interactive Workshops the Children Explored Extinction

Year 1 children explore dinosaur habitats.

Exploring dinosaur habitats. Exploring dinosaur extinction. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

The school is broadly average in size and is consistently rated as “Good” by Ofsted. On the first day we worked with the younger pupils, the second day (the morning and part of the afternoon), was solely dedicated to Year 6. During our time working with the upper Key Stage 2 children, we explored extinction, discussed whether life did originate on planet Earth, explored natural selection and adaptation, mapped prehistoric plants and proved that continents move.

Making the Woolly Mammoth De-extinct!

The Everything Dinosaur fossil expert showed Year 6 some Woolly Mammoth fossils that had been found not too far away from the school. Tens of thousands of years ago, the Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) roamed this part of Britain, we speculated on what roles the children might have had if they had lived during the Stone Age and they had taken part in a Woolly Mammoth hunt.

What Role Would You Have Played in a Woolly Mammoth Hunt?

Neanderthals attacking a Woolly Mammoth.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

The picture (above) was created using Papo prehistoric animal models.

To view the Papo range of prehistoric animal figures: Papo Prehistoric Animal Models and Figures.

Our fossil expert then explained what research is being undertaken to resurrect this extinct elephant. The Year 6 children debated whether or not bringing back the Woolly Mammoth and making it de-extinct was a good idea. There seemed to be a consensus amongst the students that the Dodo should be brought back as well. However, the Year 6 pupils were disappointed to hear that Dodos, or as the Dutch sailors used to call it, the Doddaer, (Raphus cucullatus), was actually a giant, flightless pigeon.

A Teacher Comments after a Dinosaur Workshop

Commenting on the work undertaken by Everything Dinosaur Mrs Bradly (one of the teachers) said:

“I missed you at the end of the day and I’m not in tomorrow so I am emailing to say thank you for the workshops today. The feedback from staff and children have been really positive.”

Mrs Harris (teacher Year 4) stated:

“An excellent session, very engaging with excellent subject knowledge and super resources. Repetition was used well to encourage the children to learn key vocabulary. A great session – thank you!”

Our two days working with the teachers and pupils at this primary school whizzed by, we even got the chance to see a partial lower jaw of a sheep that one of the children had found and the skull of a bird discovered whilst at Forest School. It seems as we departed Derbyshire we left behind some happy teachers and happy pupils. Our dinosaur workshop and other activities were extremely popular.

To see Everything Dinosaur’s user-friendly website: Everything Dinosaur.

12 06, 2016

Year 2 Children Make Dinosaur Posters

By Mike|2023-05-01T09:47:38+01:00June 12th, 2016|Categories: Key Stage 1/2|Comments Off on Year 2 Children Make Dinosaur Posters

Half-term Activities for Year 2 Pupils

Children in Year 2 at Newport Infant School (Shropshire), were given a special task by their teachers for the half-term holiday. The three classes that make up Year 2 (Hedgehog, Deer and Squirrel) were going to be studying dinosaurs as their term topic for the latter part of the Summer term, so as preparation, the enthusiastic teachers challenged the children to produce a piece of dinosaur themed work over the holidays. Some children chose to make prehistoric animal models, others decided to build their own “Jurassic World” diorama. The Everything Dinosaur fossil expert who visited the school to conduct a series of dinosaur themed workshops with the children, was given the opportunity to view the colourful display.

For dinosaur gifts and toys: Dinosaur Gifts and Toys.

Year 2 Pupils at Newport Infant School Make a Dinosaur Themed Display

A dinosaur world made by Year 2 children.

A rod to dangle a flying reptile on, what a great idea. A superb prehistoric animal model display.

Picture credit: Newport Infant School/Everything Dinosaur

The children had clearly enjoyed this half-term holiday challenge. We suspect that some mums and dads got involved too. Our Everything Dinosaur staff member even saw a superb chocolate cake that had been baked by young Will and his mum. It looked very tasty indeed!

Children Make Dinosaur Posters

A number of children had produced science posters all about dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. The posters showed that the pupils had undertaken a considerable amount of research into this topic before creating their poster. Grace for example, produced a poster that showed different types of dinosaur and asked questions that our fossil expert was able to answer during the dinosaur workshop with Grace’s class.

A Number of Pupils Made Super Dinosaur Posters Over Half-Term

Year 2 children and their dinosaur posters.

Children made dinosaur models and posters over the half-term holiday.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

With an enthusiastic teaching team and such a carefully crafted scheme of work the pupils in Year 2 at Newport Infant School are going to have an exciting end to their school year.

Everything Dinosaur’s website: Everything Dinosaur.

10 06, 2016

Spectacular Dinosaurs with Newport Infant School

By Mike|2024-05-06T06:41:35+01:00June 10th, 2016|Categories: Educational Activities, Main Page, Teaching|0 Comments

Year 2 Study Dinosaurs

Thursday was “Dinosaur Day” for the Year 2 children at Newport Infant School (Shropshire) and in preparation for their Summer Term topic the three classes (Deer, Squirrel and Hedgehog) had been challenged to produce a dinosaur themed piece of work over the half-term holiday. A tweet had been sent out by the school reminding the children to bring in their prehistoric creations and space was set aside in the well-appointed classrooms so that the various models, prehistoric scenes, drawings and posters could be displayed.

Dinosaur Themed Activities

Year 2 Children Made Mini “Jurassic Worlds” for the Summer Term Dinosaur Topic

A dinosaur model made by Year 2 children.

A mini dinosaur world made by Year 2 children.

Picture credit: Newport Infant School Hedgehog Class

Colourful Dinosaur Displays

There were lots of colourful dinosaur displays and Everything Dinosaur felt quite at home when they visited the school to work with the three classes over the course of the day to provide an appropriate “wow” activity to help to enthuse pupils and teachers alike over the new term topic. Several children had created special science posters. These demonstrated that a number of the children had a lot of pre-knowledge when it comes to dinosaurs, their enthusiasm for the subject was very clear and our time working with each class in the spacious hall whizzed by.

Some Fine Examples of Science Posters Featuring Prehistoric Animals from Year 2

Children made dinosaur models and posters over the half-term holiday.

Picture credit: Newport Infant School Hedgehog Class

Dinosaur Workshops

The posters were beautifully illustrated with dinosaurs such as Triceratops, Spinosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex proving to be amongst the most popular. The additional resources our fossil expert brought with him will help the children to recall and remember prehistoric animal facts, the posters are a wonderful example of non-fiction writing in a Key Stage 1 class. During our workshops, we challenged the children to write a story about Triceratops coming to lunch, the pupils were amazed when it was revealed how much one of the these huge horned dinosaurs could eat in a day! This extension activity is aimed at helping the pupils gain greater confidence with their story writing.

Flying Reptiles in Hedgehog Class

Year 2 make prehistoric animal models including a wonderful pterosaur.

Picture credit: Newport Infants School Hedgehog Class

T. rex and a Flying Reptile

The picture above shows a model of a T. rex in the background with a flying reptile (pterosaur) replica in the foreground. It looks like the Year 2 children had a very busy half-term holiday preparing their exhibits for the dinosaur term topic. Flying reptiles (pterosaurs), are not dinosaurs, although, like dinosaurs they are reptiles and palaeontologists are quite confident that these two types of animal were closely related. Both dinosaurs and flying reptiles laid eggs, and some children had even created prehistoric animal eggs to go with their displays. We were most impressed with a model of green dinosaur with a long tail that was accompanied by a large paper mache egg that was full of facts about dinosaurs.

For models and replicas of dinosaurs and pterosaurs: CollectA Deluxe Prehistoric Animal Scale Models.

A Dinosaur Model with an Egg Full of Dinosaur Facts

A dinosaur model with an egg full of dinosaur facts.

Picture credit: Newport Infants School Hedgehog Class

Top Marks for Dinosaur Themed Activities

Top marks to all the children in Squirrel, Deer and Hedgehog class for making such fantastic prehistoric animal displays. There were so many amazing things to see, the Everything Dinosaur team member did not have time to photograph them all, but in between the workshops and over the lunch time he did have the opportunity to see the classrooms and to marvel at all the super drawings, posters and models.

Visit Everything Dinosaur’s award-winning website: Everything Dinosaur.

9 06, 2016

The High Quality English Science Curriculum

By Mike|2024-05-06T06:42:23+01:00June 9th, 2016|Categories: Educational Activities, Main Page, Teaching|0 Comments

What Will a High Quality Science Education Achieve?

This week Everything Dinosaur team members participated in a North West Science Alliance meeting. It took place at the magnificent Preston iSTEM Centre at Preston’s College (Lancashire, northern England). The ISTEM (innovation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths), Centre is a fantastic £13 million facility that provides educational opportunities for some 600 students. A diverse range of courses are offered from traditional “A” levels to qualifications in electrical engineering, laboratory practice, dental nursing and creative and digital media.

Everything Dinosaur and STEM

The great thing about the iSTEM Centre is that it is not just a shiny, well-appointed, new building. It is a bespoke learning environment that provides students with real work experiences. It manages to bridge the student world with that of the world of work. Many local employers have grasped the Centre’s ethos of delivering top class training and forged meaningful, long-term relationships with the course providers.

We praise all those involved in this important undertaking.

What Does the English Science Curriculum Contribute?

At the meeting, as we listened to the speakers, our thoughts turned to Everything Dinosaur’s own work in schools and later, in the office, we asked the question what does the new English science curriculum hope to contribute?

How to Forge the Next Generation of Scientists?

Developing the next generation of scientists.

Picture credit: Lego

Hopefully, by providing a high quality, challenging science education for children, a science education that is broad-based and led by motivated and enthusiastic teaching staff we shall be able to:

Encourage pupils to understand how science can be used to explain what is happening as well as helping to solve problems
Promote a fascination and respect for the natural world
Equip children with life-long learning skills
Inspire pupils to ask challenging questions and to work scientifically

When working with classes delivering dinosaur and fossil themed workshops we try to inspire and motivate the next generation of scientists. With tactile, kinaesthetic lessons we aim to help children develop their scientific knowledge as well as to develop an understanding of scientific concepts.

Helping Students to Gain an Insight into Scientific Working

Helping to inspire the next generation (Neanderthal skull modelling).

Gaining Confidence/Developing Knowledge

At Everything Dinosaur we tailor our workshops to meet the learning needs of the class and we take care to ensure that what we deliver compliments the teaching scheme of work. Our aim is to develop scientific understanding and to give students an appreciation of the scientific method.

For further information on Everything Dinosaur’s work and ethics: About Everything Dinosaur.

Applying and Using the Skills of a Scientist

When working with a class or a group of students, our qualified teaching team aim to develop good scientific practice and encourage the use of scientific terms accurately as well as encouraging participants to observe, assess the evidence and hypothesise. We want to promote an ethos of gathering and recording evidence, making evaluations, analysing trends and drawing appropriate conclusions.

In our own small way, Everything Dinosaur is making a positive contribution to science teaching.

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7 06, 2016

Lucy Had Neighbours According to New Study

By Mike|2024-05-06T06:42:47+01:00June 7th, 2016|Categories: Key Stage 3/4|Comments Off on Lucy Had Neighbours According to New Study

New Study Suggests Lots of Early Hominins

A new study published this week in the academic journal “The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (United States)”, concludes that the early hominins of Africa were much more speciose than previously thought. The most famous early human fossil, “Lucy” so named as the field team were listening to “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” by the Beatles when her fragmentary fossils first came to light, a member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, had plenty of other types of early hominin for company.

Early Hominins

A Model of an Australopithecus afarensis

At home on the plains. A model of Australopithecus afarensis.

A Complicated Family Tree

The analysis of the current known early hominin fossil material was conducted by Dr Yohannes Haile-Selassie and Dr Denise Su (The Cleveland Museum of Natural History), in conjunction with their colleague from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Dr Stephanie Melillo. In a review of the fossil evidence from Chad, Ethiopia and Kenya, the scientists suggest that around 3.6 million years ago, a number of ancient hominin species co-existed. It seems that “Lucy” and her kind had plenty of company. The hominin family tree is complicated.

More models and replicas of early hominins: Safari Ltd. Wild Safari Prehistoric World Models.

Hominin Diversity in the Late Miocene and Pliocene Epochs

A number of early hominin species have been identified.

Late Miocene and Pliocene hominin diversity.

Picture credit: PNAS with additional annotation by Everything Dinosaur

The scientists conclude that more fossil material needs to be found. More fossils will help establish the evolutionary relationships of these species. The researchers would like to know how these early hominins competed for resources.

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5 06, 2016

You’ve Never Seen a Dinosaur Like This Before

By Mike|2023-04-30T22:04:00+01:00June 5th, 2016|Categories: General Teaching|Comments Off on You’ve Never Seen a Dinosaur Like This Before

A Feathered Middle Jurassic Plant-eater – Kulindadromeus

A team of international scientists have created a life-size model of the dinosaur they named and described two years ago. The dinosaur, called Kulindadromeus (pronounced cull-lind-ah-dro-me-us), was only around one metre in length. It was quite small, when most people think of dinosaurs as being huge animals. Size is not everything when it comes to the dinosaurs. As Kulindadromeus represents a member of the bird-hipped group of dinosaurs and fossil evidence suggest that this little reptile had feathers.

Kulindadromeus

A Model of the Plant-eating Dinosaur Kulindadromeus

A 1:1 scale model of Kulindadromeus.

Picture credit: T. Hubin/RBINS

Important Fossil Discovery

Many hundreds of fossils of this herbivorous dinosaur were found by field expeditions to a site on the river Olov in Siberia (Russia). It was from these fossils that scientists were able to work out that this dinosaur ran around on its two hind legs, that it had five toes on each foot, a beak, a long scaly tail and most importantly of all, that it had feathers on its body. The largest feathers seem to be confined to the top of the legs and arms with another set of feathers protruding from the animal’s rump.

Some of the Extensive Fossil Material Collected by the Palaeontologists

A vast amount of fossil material was collected.

Picture credit: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

A Middle Jurassic Dinosaur

The fossil material comes from finely grained sedimentary rocks that were laid down in the Middle Jurassic (between 175 and 160 million years ago). The joint Russian and Belgian field team also found plant and insect fossils. The strata represents a watery, lakeside environment that had horsetail plants growing in the shallow lake margins. A number of Kulindadromeus individuals have been identified from the fossil remains and by studying the fossil material, the scientists have been able to build up an accurate picture of what this dinosaur actually looked like.

The life-size replica and a model of the skeleton of Kulindadromeus (shown below), is currently on display at a museum in Japan.

A Model of the Skeleton of Kulindadromeus

A replica of the skeleton of Kulindadromeus.

A model of the Kulindadromeus skeleton.

Picture credit: T. Hubin/RBINS

Many scientists have concluded that one group of dinosaurs the theropods, a group that consisted of mainly meat-eating dinosaurs were feathered. The theropods were lizard-hipped dinosaurs, the discovery of Kulindadromeus suggests that bird-hipped dinosaurs were also probably covered in feathers.

31 05, 2016

Everything Dinosaur to Attend Special Daresbury Sci-Tech Open Day

By Mike|2024-05-06T06:45:06+01:00May 31st, 2016|Categories: General Teaching|Comments Off on Everything Dinosaur to Attend Special Daresbury Sci-Tech Open Day

Everything Dinosaur at the Dino-Zone

Everything Dinosaur has been invited to attend the Daresbury Sci-Tech Open Day to deliver a range of dinosaur and fossil themed educational activities. The Daresbury Laboratory Public Open Day is taking place on July 9th (a Saturday). The famous, world-renowned science park will be opening its doors to the public and this year, a wonderful “Dino-Zone” has been added to the list of family attractions. Everything Dinosaur team members have been asked to take part.

An Opportunity to Learn Lots About Science

Daresbury Open Day with Everything Dinosaur

Ready for all the excited dinosaur and fossil fans. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Everything Dinosaur at the Daresbury Open Day

Daresbury in the county of Cheshire, is home to one of the country’s leading science campuses where top scientists and engineers are based. As a working science facility, it is not usually open to the general public, however, on the 9th July the campus will be providing visitors with an opportunity to explore, learn and take part in some fun science activities.

Amongst the more than seventy attractions, Everything Dinosaur staff will be inviting members of the public to dig for fossils amongst the gravels of our “Jurassic beach”. Our fossil experts will be on hand to identify fossil finds and to explain about prehistoric life.

Visit Everything Dinosaur’s award-winning website: Everything Dinosaur.

Come on a Fossil Hunt with Everything Dinosaur

Getting the stand and fossil hunting activity for the Daresbury Open Day. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Finding Fossils and Learning About Life in the Past

A member of the Everything Dinosaur team explained:

“Finding fossils and learning about life in the past is fun! We will have fossil bones, shark teeth, petrified wood, ammonites, belemnites, crinoids, corals, bivalves, brachiopods, all sorts of fossils and if you find something then you can take it home, the start of your very own fossil collection. Perhaps the Daresbury Sci-Tech Open Day will enthuse the next generation of palaeontologists.”

For more information about Everything Dinosaur, drop us an email: Email Everything Dinosaur.

30 05, 2016

Everything Dinosaur Prepares for Special Daresbury Open Day

By Mike|2024-05-06T06:45:29+01:00May 30th, 2016|Categories: Dinosaur Fans, Educational Activities, Main Page, Press Releases, Teaching|0 Comments

Everything Dinosaur Starts Preparations for the Daresbury Open Day

What do laser beams, a supercomputer, Tyrannosaurus rex, the Large Hadron Collider and fossil shark teeth have in common? Answer – these items and so much more are going to part of the fabulous Daresbury Open Day taking place on Saturday, July 9th, at the prestigious, world-renowned science park.

This year, a fantastic Dino-Zone has been added to the mix of family themed science attractions at the Sci-Tech Daresbury and Everything Dinosaur team members have been asked to take part.

The Daresbury Open Day

Daresbury in Cheshire, is home to one of the UK’s world leading science campuses and some of our planet’s best engineers and scientists. As a working science facility it is not usually open to the public, however, on the 9th July the campus will be throwing its doors open and providing visitors with an opportunity to explore, learn and take part in some fun science activities.

Everything Dinosaur Team Members Will Be Presenting at the Daresbury Open Day

Daresbury events and Everything Dinosaur

Everything Dinosaur presents “Dinosaurs from top to bottom” one the exciting events scheduled for the Daresbury Open Day. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

A “Jurassic Beach”

Amongst the attractions, Everything Dinosaur team members will be inviting members of the public to dig for fossils amongst the gravels of our “Jurassic beach”, what you find, if you like, you can keep. Our fossil experts will be on hand to identify fossil finds and to explain about life in the past. Over the last few days, we have been sorting through our vast treasure trove of specimens, all collected from various dig sites around the world.

A spokesperson from Everything Dinosaur commented:

“We will be on hand to help identify the fossils found in our own exhibit and no doubt, we will be able to help identify the specimens dug out from the large sandpit in the Dino-Zone as well, although we suspect the range of fossils that we will be offering will be a little more diverse. For example, we have thousands of fossil shark teeth that we have excavated as part of our fossil sieving work at various locations, these too will be given away”.

For dinosaur themed gifts and toys: Dinosaur Gifts and Toys.

Hands on Science Hands on some Prehistoric Shark Teeth!

A successful fossil hunt.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

An Interactive Dino-Zone

Come and meet REX, a walking, running, blinking animatronic Tyrannosaurus rex and if you are a fan of “Jurassic World” have a go at controlling a life-size digital dinosaur or learning how amazing synchrotron technology and the energy emitted from electrons is shedding new light on dinosaur research. For dino-bird enthusiasts, Samantha Sportun, (Collections Care Manager and Senior Conservator, Manchester Museum), will be showing off a wonderful stone replica of one of the best examples of Archaeopteryx yet found.

Examine the Archaeopteryx Specimen

Archaeopteryx fossil cast. Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Studying Archaeopteryx

Samantha will be explaining about Archaeopteryx research using one of the best preserved of all the Archaeopteryx fossils found to date, the Thermopolis Archaeopteryx!

To contact team members at Everything Dinosaur: Email Everything Dinosaur.

There are bound to be lots of fossils on display including a few dinosaur bones for visitors to explore. There might even be a few pieces of dinosaur bone to be discovered in our fossil gravel beds, one thing for sure, team members at Everything Dinosaur have already begun sorting through the various fossil collections in the company’s warehouse in preparation for this big event.

Sorting Through Hundreds of Different Fossils

Some of the fossils being sorted by Everything Dinosaur as they prepare for the Daresbury Laboratory public outreach science event.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Spectacular Science at the Daresbury Open Day

As well as the Dino-Zone, members of the public will be able to explore virtual worlds or star in their own mini feature film using Matrix-style, bullet time special effects or test their nerve and accuracy aiming to shoot balloons with laser beams. Visitors on the day will be able to explore one of the most advanced particle accelerators dedicated to cancer therapy research, or the world’s most powerful supercomputing facilities dedicated to industry, where new car models are designed. They will also be able to visit one of the most powerful microscopes in the world that formed part of the Nobel Prize winning graphene research and walk through a life-sized, section of the Large Hadron Collider tunnel.

In total, there will be something like seventy different exhibits and activities on offer for children and grown-ups during the open day.

Visit Everything Dinosaur’s award-winning website: Everything Dinosaur.

20 05, 2016

Thank You From Teacher After Dinosaur Workshop

By Mike|2023-04-29T08:37:52+01:00May 20th, 2016|Categories: General Teaching, Key Stage 1/2|Comments Off on Thank You From Teacher After Dinosaur Workshop

A Thank You Note from Teacher

After a very successful couple of dinosaur workshops with the Year 2 classes at Great Wood Primary (Lancashire), we set the children some extension activities. In addition, to our work whilst at the school, we promised to send the teaching team some additional prehistoric animal themed resources to support the term topic and to help enrich the scheme of work that had been carefully prepared.

A Dinosaur Workshop in Lancashire

With the school being located in Lancashire, we sent over some information on the famous anatomist and early palaeontologist Sir Richard Owen. Sir Richard Owen was born in the county of Lancashire. Naturally, we had to supply information on the very influential fossil hunter Mary Anning, along with a tongue twister or two.

The children sent in to our offices some wonderful prehistoric animal drawings and a set of thank you letters. Along with all the fabulous examples of the children’s work, one of the teachers dropped us a note on behalf of the teaching team to thank us for all the extra support and assistance we had provided.

The Thank You Note from the Teacher

“The children really did have a fantastic morning.”

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

The Year Two teacher commented:

“The children were really enthused after your visit and learnt so much.”

Everything Dinosaur and Thank You Letters

The children’s letters were brim full of dinosaur facts that they had learned and we did our best to email over answers to the many questions the children posed about prehistoric animals.

A Thank You Letter from Hannah (Year Two)

Everything Dinosaur and a dinosaur workshop thank you letter.

A thank you letter sent in by Hannah to Everything Dinosaur.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

Children Ask Questions About Dinosaurs

Caitlin told us her favourite dinosaur was Triceratops, whilst Wade asked “will you come again?”. Alfie drew a wonderful picture of an armoured dinosaur and he informed us that his favourite dinosaur was Ankylosaurus.

For further information about Everything Dinosaur’s work in schools and to request a quotation: Contact Everything Dinosaur. Our thanks to the teaching team and the pupils at Great Wood Primary. We are glad that everyone enjoyed the dinosaur workshop in the school.

Visit Everything Dinosaur’s website: Visit Everything Dinosaur.

19 05, 2016

Beautiful Dinosaur Drawings from St David’s Day

By Mike|2024-05-06T06:37:06+01:00May 19th, 2016|Categories: Educational Activities, Main Page, Teaching|0 Comments

Children from St Thomas More School Send in Dinosaur Drawings

Tuesday, 1st of March saw a team member of Everything Dinosaur visiting the Key Stage 1 classes at St Thomas More Catholic First School (Redditch), to deliver some dinosaur and fossil themed workshops to support the spring term topic. In the classroom we saw lots of models and dinosaur drawings.

Dinosaur Drawings

Amongst the many extension activities we suggested, our prehistoric animal expert challenged the children to have a go at designing their very own dinosaur. Under the expert tutelage of the experienced teaching team, the children in Year 1, a mixed Year 1 and Year 2 class and in Year 2 certainly set about this task with relish. A few days ago, we received an envelope from the school and inside was a selection of the very colourful drawings the children had made.

Colourful Dinosaur Drawings from the Key Stage 1 Classes

Lots of lovely dinosaur designs sent into Everything Dinosaur by Key Stage 1.

Picture credit: St Thomas More Catholic First School

Learning About Food Webs and Scientific Working

The children had been learning which dinosaurs were herbivores, which were carnivores and what types of dinosaur were probably omnivorous. In addition, the simple experiments that the teaching team had incorporated into their diverse scheme of work helped the children to get to grips with the fundamentals of working scientifically. The dinosaur themed workshops we delivered on St David’s day (March 1st) certainly proved popular with the children and the teachers and we were delighted to receive a number of dinosaur illustrations that the pupils had devised.

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A Splendid Dinosaur Drawing by Alex

Alex sent Everything Dinosaur a picture of “Alexosaurus”.

Picture credit: St Thomas More Catholic First School

Alexosaurus by Alex

Alex sent in a wonderful dinosaur drawing. We love the thick neck and the spikes running down the body. We challenged the children to have a go at labelling the body parts of their very own dinosaur. This dinosaur was named “Alexosaurus”. Ironically, there is a dinosaur genus called Alxasaurus (pronounced Alks-ah-sore-us). Although descended from meat-eating dinosaurs (carnivores), Alxasaurus was very probably an omnivore.

An Illustration of Alxasaurus

A scale drawing of the theropod dinosaur Alxasaurus.

Picture credit: Everything Dinosaur

For models and replicas of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals: Dinosaur and Prehistoric Animal Models.

Alxasaurus may have been a spectacular looking dinosaur with its toothless beak, long arms, huge claws and feathers but Victoria’s illustration is of an even more amazing animal.

Victoria’s Prehistoric Animal Design

Victoria imagined a brown dinosaur with huge green spikes.

Picture credit: St Thomas More Catholic First School

Victoria imagined a huge, brown, herbivorous dinosaur with massive triangular spikes running down its back to the tip of its very long tail. The dinosaur has been named Vicosaurus, and Victoria even drew a prehistoric tree and a stream so that this dinosaur had something to eat and some water to drink.

They are certainly a most impressive set of dinosaur drawings. Our thanks to Katy the teacher, for sending them into Everything Dinosaur.