Teacher Process / Explorer’s Duties / Steps 1-2 / Step 3 / Step 4-5 / Step 6-7/ Evaluation

Created By: Alejandra Prado and Kiera Moody

Grade 3The Dinosaur

Adventure

Teacher ProcessCommon Core Standards3.RL.1- Ask and answer

questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

3.W.2- Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. a. Introduce a topic and group

related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.

b. Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.

d. Provide a concluding statement or section

Introduce dinosaurs to class and have students share what they know with their classmates.

Your main focus is to answer questions, explain tasks that will be assigned and observe and guide students if they seem unsure.

Student evaluation

Task: Welcome dinosaur explorers! As a team, you will each choose a role and work together to create, your own dinosaur and brief biography.

Roles (3):1. Bone collector: You will go on a scavenger hunt

and collect bones from the giant sensory table.2. Researcher: You will collect and research the

various bones found by #1 and go on a site to collect data.

3. Creative task: Create a visual aid, to create a visual of the dinosaur.

Explorer’s Duties

Steps 1-2Step 1: What do you

know?Students will share

ideas with their peers and go up to the board and write down one thing they know about dinosaurs.

Step 2: Choose your duty.Assign roles.There will be 3

students in each group.

Roles

Bone collector:You will have 5-8 minutes to go on a scavenger

hunt in the sensory table. A link is provided to show how real dinosaur bones are found and dug out.

Each bone will have a tag that will name that specific bone.

After the bones are collected, you will take back what you found and share them with your group.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y3BVezBNjs

http://www.mightybook.com/libraries/books/dino_bones/Dino_Bones_T-Rex.html

Step 3

Step 4-5Step 4: Researcher

You are in charge of looking up information on each bone found. Use the links below to help you get started.

After gathering your information, share your findings with your group.

http://www.kids-dinosaurs.com/dinosaur-skeletons.html

http://pbskids.org/dinosaurtrain/games/fieldguide.html

Step 5.After the first and

second task are complete, all 3 members have to work together and determine what they would like to present to the class.

Step 6-7Step 6: Creative

artist Make a visual aid for

the new dinosaur your group has created.

Include a brief biography on what kind of dinosaur it is. Use link below for cool ideas.

http://www.kidsdinos.com/dinosaurs-for-children.php

Step 7:Come together as a

group and summarize what they have learned.

Below is a link with more fun facts about dinosaurs.

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/dinosaurs/fossilseggs.html

Congratulations Explorers you completed The Dinosaur Adventure task! Let’s see how you did.

Evaluation

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Bone Collector

No work shown. Participated with minimal amount of bones (1-2).

Participated and found a satisfactory amount of bones (3-4).

Participated and an excellent of bones (5+).

Researcher No work shown. Participated and found minimal information.

Participated and found satisfactory information.

Participated and found an excellent amount of information.

Creative task

No work shown. Participated with and created piece, no biography.

Participated and created a satisfactory piece with brief biography.

Participated and created an excellent piece with a brief detailed biography.

Group summary

No work shown. Summary has minimal sentences and poor structure.

Summary has satisfactory amount of sentences with some structure.

Summary has an excellent amount of sentences with structure.