Digging up the past

Use a paper plate to make one of the dinosaurs that you have learnt about. Does it have a long neck? Can it fly? Does it need sharp teeth?

Resources: Paper plates, paint, collage materials, glitter, glue. toilet roll tubes, paper/card, coloured pencils/felt tip pens

Get a clean sock or piece of sewn together material to use for your sock puppet. Gather resources needed to attach to the sock puppet or make these using craft materials you may have. Attach them to the puppet with glue or alternatively sock them onto your puppet.

Share some dinosaur poems with the children. Practise the poem so that the children can remember some of the verses. Talk about which musical instruments would match the verse i.e. shake and quake (maracas), bang bang (drums). Then let the children perform the poem whilst playing the instruments

Listen to the dinosaur music and discuss how the dinosaurs would have moved. Which dinosaur can you imagine moving to the different sections of music? Is it a pterodactyl gliding? A T-Rex stomping? Which instrument would you use for each dinosaur? How would you play the instrument to create new sounds/effects?

Watch video clips - BBC Planet Dinosaur

Find out about what dinosaur habitats, diet and behaviour. Create a booklet about your chosen dinosaurs, add pictures, facts.

Useful websites: https://www.thedinosaurmuseum.com/dino-facts

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/dinosaurs-and-prehistoric-life/dinosaurs/

Click for - Complete the various different activities to teach the children about what it would be like to be an archeologist and to explain how we find out so much about dinosaurs.

Tip: You may need to start some of these activities at the beginning of the week.

Click for - 'Who am I?' sheet - 5-7

Click for - Archeologist record sheet - 7-11

Use standard and non standard forms to measure the dinosaurs. Discuss which dinosaurs was the tallest/shortest. Look at real dinosaurs and talk about which dinosaurs were the tallest. Which dinosaur had the longest neck? Which dinosaur had the longest tooth?

Complete the Suduko grid by adding the dinosaurs to the correct squares so that there is only one of each dinosaur in each column or row.

Easy - 4x4 grid

Medium - 4x4 grid

Use the guidance to create your own dinosaur theme park. What attractions will you have? Which dinosaurs will you include? How much profit can you make?

Use the flip flap dinosaur book by Axel Schefflers to create your own dinosaur. Where does the dinosaur live? What does it eat? Is it a carnivore, omnivore, herbivore?

Click for - examples of new species of dinosaurs

Click here for dinosaur design sheets.

Use the BBC websiete to learn about Mary Anning the fossil hunter - Watch https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd8fv9q/articles/zf6vb82

Click for - 5-7 writing proforma

Click for - 7-11 writing proforma

Teach the children the basic dinosaur dance. Then let them come up with their own moves to go with the dance. Could they pick a different song to perform their dance to.

Hide dinosaur fossils/pictures/skeletons outside. Place the footprints on the ground for the children to follow and find the first hidden object. Hide clues at each object to help the children find where the next object is hidden.