Dinosaur Project Outline

Aim: Getting a feel for doing a project and collecting information from books, sites, games and jigsaws. Learning new words, playing and imagination, counting and sorting and recognising letters.

Colouring: Print out sheets and stencils.

Model making: Junk models, landscape, playdough cut outs and 3d models.

Classified cards: Using cartoon and realistic clipart–naming.

Matching cards: Introduce the idea of snap games and further sorting.

A visit: Check for fossil/dino/prehistooric exhibitions in area.

TV programme: Walking with Dinosaurs, maybe Disney Dinosaurs, Fantasia I.

Songs: Learn the ones printed from net and try and incorporate some sound practise.

Cooking: Dinosaur biscuits, maybe ice a cake, make a jelly.

Dressing up: paper mache hats/masks and cloaks with things stuck on?

Story/reading: look out for cartoon based or simple books and stories.

Jigsaw: Wooden jigsaw, make some with clipart?

Spelling: D for dinosaur plus some letters on cards–can you see a dino starting with I?

Counting: Using small shapes, create some worksheets using clipart, stencils, stamps.

Sorting: small models or baked playdough into feeding groups/ land/water/air etc.

Colours: paint some funny coloured dinos on paper or baked playdough.

Facts: meat/plant, land/water/air, big/small.

Art/collage: material sticking, baked playdough on background, painting, dino eggs.

History: time line, end of dinosaurs.

Geography: pangea, land and water and globe exercises.

Science/nature: bones, digging up, fossils, circle of life, reptiles.

Cultural/religion: Ummm… well, a bit of Genesis maybe?