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HISTORYLearning Targets

Childrenwill:

  Beable to give some reasons for particular events and changes inprehistoric time

  Beable to use their knowledge and understanding to answers simplequestions about the prehistoric past and changes

  Understand that thepast can be considered in terms of different time periods

Curriculum links toGEOGRAPHY, SCIENCE and ICT:

  Beable to gather information from texts

  Understand theimportance of gathering scientific information

  Knowabout processes and conditions that have an effect ondinosaurs

  Knowthat living things are supported by different environments and aresuited to different environments

  Beable to classify dinosaurs according to their features

  Beable to find and use stored information about dinosaurs from avariety of sources

  UseICT to support and present their History and Science work

  Makechoices to gather information and solve problems

Vocabulary for the Unit

Dinosaur (names ofvarious dinosaurs E.G. triceratops, diplodocus, brachiosaurus,centrosaurus, t-rex), carnivorous, herbivorous, fossil, extinction,palaeontologist, identify, timeline, evidence, deduction, source,information, continental drift, prehistoric, land formation,Pangaea, Laurasia, Gondwanaland, Cretaceous, Mesozoic, Triassic,Jurassic, mya (million years ago), volcanic eruption, asteroid, iceage, jaws, teeth, skeleton, muscles, plates, crests

Week

Objectives

Activities

Assessment

Resources

1

  Beable to gather information from texts

  Beable to use their knowledge and understanding to answers simplequestions about the prehistoric past and changes

Introduce the theme- Dinosaurs, explain what we will be looking at over the next fewweeks.

True or False? Myths and facts about dinosaurs. Children to work in groups to sortthrough 20 statements (10 myths and 10 facts about dinosaurs) donot tell them that there are 10 of each. Keep a record of responsesand move the facts and myths from one set to another through classdiscussion.

Show DVD Walkingwith Dinosaurs- Review facts and myths should we change any of ourresponses? What new facts have the children learnt?

Are the childrenable to:

  sortdinosaur facts from myths

  worktogether collaboratively

  takepart in class discussion and share views

True or false?Resource packs

DVD- Walking withDinosaurs

DinosaursPowerPoint

2

  Knowabout processes and conditions that have an effect ondinosaurs

  Beable to gather information from texts

  Beable to give some reasons for particular events and changes inprehistoric time

Find out about theworlds continents at the time of the dinosaurs (Pangaea, Laurasia,Gondwanaland). Land formation.

Understand that thepast can be considered in different time periods. Know about thedifferent time periods when the dinosaurs lived. Construct atimeline- 3 periods of the Mesozoic Era (Triassic, Jurassic,Cretaceous). Introduce mya (million years ago)

Are the childrenable to:

  Construct atimeline

  Understand that thepast can be considered in different time periods

  Worktogether collaboratively

  takepart in class discussion and share views

  useunit vocabulary

http://www.zoomdinosaurs.com/subjects/dinosaurs/index.html

DinosaursPowerPoint

http://piru.alexandria.ucsb.edu/collections/animations/Pangea.mov

3

  Knowabout processes and conditions that have an effect ondinosaurs

  Beable to gather information from texts

  Knowabout processes and conditions that have an effect ondinosaurs

Know that livingthings are supported by different environments and are suited todifferent environments

Find out about whatother plants and animals existed alongside the dinosaurs.

How did thedinosaurs interact with these?

Food, predator,prey, shelter, co-exist?

Add drawings orpictures to timeline.

Are the childrenable to:

  add totheir timeline

  Worktogether collaboratively

  takepart in class discussion and share views

  useunit vocabulary

DVD- Walking withDinosaurs

DinosaursPowerPoint

4

  Beable to give some reasons for particular events and changes inprehistoric time

  Beable to use their knowledge and understanding to answers simplequestions about the prehistoric past and changes

Find out aboutfossils. What is a fossil? How is a fossil formed? What do we learnfrom fossils?

Dig out afossil

Piece together adinosaur skeleton (intro to next week)

Are thechildren able to:

  Understandwhat a fossil is.

  Discoverhow a dinosaur becomes a fossil.

  takepart in class discussion and share views

  useunit vocabulary

DinosaursPowerPoint

Fossil LayersHO

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinofossils/Fossilhow.html

http://www.teachnet-lab.org/glasgold/lesson_1.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/games/skeleton_jigsaw/skeletal_jigsaws/index.shtml

5

  Beable to gather information from texts

  Understand theimportance of gathering scientific information

  Beable to use their knowledge and understanding to answers simplequestions about the prehistoric past and changes

Find out aboutpalaeontologists and how their discoveries help us know more aboutdinosaurs.

Create a dinosaurfact file.

What size?activity

Classify dinosaurs -Dinosaur Detective

Are the childrenable to:

  Describe the work ofa palaeontologist

  Createa dinosaur fact file

  Classify dinosaursthrough a sorting tree

  takepart in class discussion and share views

  useunit vocabulary

DinosaursPowerPoint

AS classifyingdinosaurs

Facts Booklet

http://www.teachnet-lab.org/glasgold/lesson_4.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/games/baryonyx_mystery/

6

  Beable to give some reasons for particular events and changes inprehistoric time

  Knowabout processes and conditions that have an effect ondinosaurs

  Knowthat living things are supported by different environments and aresuited to different environments

Identify thepossibilities and theories for the extinction of thedinosaurs.

Are the childrenable to:

  Explain why thedinosaurs died out

  takepart in class discussion and share views

  useunit vocabulary

DinosaursPowerPoint

ExtinctionAS

http://www.zoomdinosaurs.com/subjects/dinosaurs/