Format
Program includes a slideshow and lots of real fossils from our museum. Students may want to have paper and pencil handy to draw some of these items during the connection. Questions are solicited throughout the class.
Objectives
Recognize the difference between the sprawling legs of a typical reptile and the
upright legs of dinosaurs.
• Describe the teeth of meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs and how the teeth were used by each.
• Recognize at least 3 types of dinosaurs and describe how their special features helped them meet their basic needs.
• Discuss how scientists use fossils to learn more about dinosaurs and the world in which they lived.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
See Ohio Standards below.
State Standards
Ohio Standards
Grade 1 Life Science: Basic Needs of Living Things
Living things have basic needs, which are met by obtaining materials from the physical environment
Living things can survive only in environments that meet their needs
Grade 1: ELA
SL.1.2. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented in various media and other formats (e.g., orally)
Grade 1 Math: Understanding place values
1.NBT.2 Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones. Understand the following as special cases: 10 can be thought of as a bundle of ten ones — called a “ten;” the numbers from 11 to 19 are composed of a ten and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones; and the numbers 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine tens (and 0 ones)
Grade 2 Life Science: Interactions within Habitats
Living things cause changes on Earth
Some kinds of individuals that once lived on Earth have completely disappeared although they were something like others that are alive today
Grade 2: Math – Number and Operations in Base Ten
2.NBT.7 Add and subtract within 1,000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; record the strategy with a written numerical method (drawings and, when appropriate, equations) and explain the reasoning used.
Grade 2: ELA
SL.2.2. Retell of describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented in various media and other formats (e.g., orally)
Grade 3: Life Science – Behavior, Growth and Changes
• Plants and animals have life cycles that are part of their adaptations for survival in their natural environments
Organisms’ physical and behavioral traits affect their ability to survive and reproduce
Differences in inherited traits give some individuals an advantage in surviving and/or reproducing
Grade 3: Math- Numbers and Operations in Base Ten
3.NBT.2 Fluently add and subtract within 1,000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
Grade 3: ELA
SL.3.3. Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
Grade 4: Life Science – Earth’s Living History
Suitable habitats depend upon a combination of biotic & abiotic factors
Changes in an organism’s environment are sometimes beneficial to its survival and sometimes harmful
Fossils can be compared [to one another and] to present-day organisms according to their similarities and differences
Grade 4: Math- Operations and Algebraic Thinking
4.OA.3 Solve multistep word problems posed with whole numbers and having whole number answers using the four operations
Grade 4: ELA
RI. 4.6. Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in perspective and the information provided
SL.4.3. identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points