Educational Consultants of Duguid, Neeley

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Educational Consultants of Duguid, Neeley
Armoreda

• Presents
• Dinosaurs

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Educational Consultants

• Project Manager - Susie Duguid
• Curriculum Specialist - Steve Neeley
• Technical Specialist - Christopher Armoreda

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Topics Covered

• Life processes of dinosaurs
• Changes and adaptations of dinosaurs
• The extinction of Dinosaurs and the theories

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Millions of years ago, dinosaurs ruled the earth.
Let's take a look into the world of DINOSAURS.
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Life Processes of Dinosaurs

• Presented by Steve Neeley

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Sunshine State Standards Benchmarks - Dinosaur
Food Chain

• SC.B.1.1.1- The student knows that the Sun
  supplies heat and light energy to Earth.
• SC.F.1.1.1- The student knows the basic needs of
  all living things.
• SC.F.1.1.4- The student understands that
  structures of living things are adapted to their
  function in specific environments
• SC.G.1.1.2- The student knows that plants and
  animals are dependent upon each other for
  survival.
• SC.G.2.1.1- The student knows that if living
  things do not get food, water, shelter, and
  space, they will die.

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Sample Dinosaur Food Chain
Food Web
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Activities to Teach Dinosaur Food Chains

• View videos on dinosaurs. Examples include
• The Magic School Bus The Busasaurus (time 730
  an Ornithomimus steals an egg they go back in
  time and keep track of meat-eaters and
  plant-eaters on a chart)
• Bill Nye the Science Guy Dinosaurs Those Big
  Boneheads! (time 230 Bill Nye talks about the
  Maiasaurs plant-eating diet).
• The Land Before Time also demonstrates the
  dinosaur food chain as part of the storyline.
• Read factual literature books about dinosaurs
  (see reference page later in slide show).
• Use the adopted textbook Scott Foresman
  Sciences Discover the Wonder.
• Take virtual field trips to online museums.

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Science Process Applications

• Observation
• Have students name foods theyve seen animals
  eat. Have them suggest what foods they think
  dinosaurs ate. Show the students pictures of
  different meat-eaters and plant-eaters and have
  them note differences and similarities between
  the two types.
• Students can go to Enchanted Learning for
  research.
• Classification
• Have students group dinosaurs in groups of
  meat-eaters and plant-eaters. Use note cards
  with the dinosaurs name and picture on it.
  Students complete this activity in small groups.
• Have the students make a chart showing the
  different types of plant-eaters and the
  differences in food that they ate (e.g.
  Apatosaurus likely ate trees and Triceratops
  likely ate shrubs and grasses).
• Communication
• Have the students make a poster about foods
  dinosaurs ate and show which ate plants and which
  ate meat.
• Have the students write a story, A Day in the
  Life of a Dinosaur from the perspective of
  either a meat-eater or a plant-eater.
• Have the students use Microsoft PowerPoint to
  make a short presentation teaching the
  differences between meat-eaters and plant-eaters.
• Have the students tell you where the energy
  comes from and how it gets to the dinosaurs and
  what happens to it after the dinosaurs use the
  energy.

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Science Process Applications Contd

• Measurement
• Have the students go to the Enchanted Learning
  website and research the lengths of the different
  dinosaurs and fill out a dinosaur fact sheet.
• Have the students go out on the sidewalk and use
  chalk (or on a field and use flour) and measure
  the lengths of different meat-eating and
  plant-eating dinosaurs and draw (with chalk or
  flour) those lengths. Measure in both meters and
  feet.
• Inference
• Have the students say what adaptations helped the
  different dinosaurs to acquire the food that they
  ate.
• Have the students design (on paper or as a
  diorama) what they think would be an appropriate
  exhibit habitat at a zoo for two dinosaurs, one
  meat-eating and the other plant-eating.
• Show the students pictures of several meat-eating
  and plant-eating animals alive today and have
  them classify which animal belongs to which
  group. Elicit the reasons for their
  determinations and state what adaptations those
  animals may have made to acquire food.
• Prediction
• Show the students pictures of several dinosaurs
  that they have not seen before. Have the
  students look for adaptations already learned
  about to decide if these dinosaurs ate meat or
  plants. Have them write down why they believe
  their answers to be accurate.
• Ask the students why they think the dinosaurs are
  no longer alive.. Get verbal answers, then show
  the Bill Nye video, Dinosaurs Those Big
  Boneheads! starting from time 1730. Bill Nye
  discusses how the dinosaurs lived in an ecosystem
  and that ecosystem changed. Discuss what the
  students heard and saw in that video clip and
  then have the students write a letter to their
  parents telling why dinosaurs no longer roam the
  Earth.

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Dinosaur Food Chain Assessments

• Write Meat-Eater or Plant-Eater next to the facts
  below
• 1. ate other dinosaurs ______________
• 2. ate plants _________________
• 3. had sharp teeth _________________
• 4. had flat teeth _________________
• 5. some had horns and armor ___________
• 6. no horns or armor _________________
• 7. some were long necks _______________

• A sample activity is to the right. --
• Have the students fill in a blank food chain
  chart (provide chart outline and names of things
  to insert in chart separately) - use the sample
  food chain as a model.
• Use the adopted text test pages.
• Create or find assessment activities which extend
  upon the learning activities used.

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Changes and adaptations of Dinosaurs

• Presented by Susie Duguid

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Sunshine State Standards

• Processes of life
• The student describes patterns of structure and
  function in living things.
• SC.F.1.1.4 - understands that structure of
  living things are adapted to their function in an
  environment.

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Sunshine State Standards

• How living things interact with their
  environment.
• The student understands the competitive,
  interdependent, cyclic nature of living things in
  the environment.
• SC.G.1.1.4 - know that animals and plants can be
  associated with their environment by an
  examination of their structural characteristics.

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Environments changingDinosaurs adapting

• students will be using observation and
  communication
• Atwater, M. (1993). Living things changes over
  time. New YorkMacmillan/McGraw-Hill School
  Publishing Company.

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Attention getting activities

• Jurassic Park (WITH PARENTAL AND SCHOOL BOARD
  CONSENT)
• Everybody walk the dinosaur (song)
• Dino songs web site (mindspring.com site)
• Paint Watermelon white and hide it on the
  playground. Tell children to find the dinosaur
  egg

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Virtual Museums On-line

• National Geographic Dinosaur Eggs URL
  http//www.nationalgeographic.com/dinoeggs/
• The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, Dinosaur Exhibit,
  "Life Over Time" URL http//www.fmnh.org/exhibit
  s/web_exhibits.htmOnline Teacher Guides
  available
• University of California Museum of Paleontology,
  Berkeley, CA URL http//www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/in
  dex.html
• Guide to Dinosaur Sites in Western Colorado and
  Eastern Utah URL http//www.rmwest.com/dinosaur/
  guide.htm
• Comprehensive listing of dinosaur illustrations
  online URL http//web.syr.edu/dbgoldma/pictures
  .html
• Childrens on-line museum

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Websites

• http//www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.htm
  l
• http//www.connectingstudents.com/themes/dinos.htm
  
• http//www.mindconnection.com
• http//www.nebo.edu/nebo/bookmarks/k12/lesson.html
  
• http//falcon.jmu.edu/ramseyil/paleodino.htm
• http//www.sunvalleyski.com/dinosaur.html
• http//www.dinodon.com
• http//www.onlineclass.com/dinosaurs/students.htm
• http//www.qmark.com/qm_web/dino.html

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The extinction of Dinosaurs and the theories

• Presented by Christopher Armoreda

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Dinosaur Extinction Theories

• The exact explanation as to why dinosaurs
  disappeared from this earth is yet unknown.
  Several feasible theories have been presented and
  they are the
• Volcanic theory
• Asteroid theory
• Super Nova Theory
• Orbital Changes Theory
• Epidemic Disease Theory

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Dinosaur Extinction Theories as they are related
to the Sunshine State Standards
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Sunshine State Standards

• Processes Of Life
• The student describes patterns of structure and
  function in living things.
• SC.F.1.1.1 - knows the basic needs of all
  living things.
• SC.F.1.1.4 - understands that structures of
  living things are adapted to their function in
  specific environments.

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Sunshine State Standards

• How Living things Interact with Their Environment
• The student understands the competitive,
  interdependent, cyclic nature of living things in
  the environment.
• SC.G.1.1.2 - knows that plants and animals are
  dependent upon each other for survival.
• The student understands the consequences of
  using limited natural resources.
• SC.G.2.1.1 - knows that if living things do not
  get food, water, shelter, and space, they will
  die.

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Proceed with Caution

• The dinosaur extinction theories are very
  complex.
• Choose the theories that the students can
  understand.
• Try and simplify the chosen theories to their
  level of understanding.

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Volcanic Theory

• Ask the students questions based on the picture.
• Have a virtual field trip of volcanoes on-line.
• Virtual Tour
• Conduct a lesson on acid rain.
• Acid Rain Lesson

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Asteroid Theory

• Ask students questions based on the picture.
• Provide students with some information about
  asteroids and the impact it had on the dinosaurs
  extinction.
• Asteroid Information
• Dinosaur Extinction
• Have an activity with the class in relation to
  this theory of dinosaur extinction.
• Geology Activity

This painting, by space artist and scientist Don
Davis, shows what an asteroid hitting the Earth
65 million years ago might have looked like. The
bird-like creatures are pterodactyls, which are
flying reptiles with 50-foot wingspans. From
NASA.
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Super Nova Theory

• Define what a Super Nova and the ozone layer is
  to the class.
• Ask the class if they know what happens when the
  ozone layer is destroyed.
• Try this neat activity and lesson on the ozone
  layer.
• Activity and Lesson

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Orbital Changes Theory

• Show class how the earths orbit, tilt and wobble
  could have caused the extinction of dinosaurs.
  Use a globe when teaching this concept. Here is
  a good information tool.
• Informational Tool

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Epidemic Disease Theory

• A simple way to teach this concept is to have the
  students pretend that they are a dinosaur and
  they got sick from something they ate. They
  would discuss how what made them sick and how
  they felt. They would write until the death of
  their dinosaur.

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Cognitive Processes

• Integration with other academic disciplines.
• The utilization of the components of the science
  process.
• Uses of the different levels of Blooms Taxonomy.
• Association with the Learning Theories.

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List of useful websites for students and teachers
on the various dinosaur extinction theories

• http//www.zoomschool.com/subjects/dinosaurs
• http//www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/dinosaurs.ht
  ml
• http//www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaur
  s/extinction/Other.html
• http//www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/archive/19
  95/950109/950109.science.html
• http//www.execpc.commaas/extinction
• http//www.ukonline.co.uk/u.buckley/dino.htm
• http//www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/rexfile
  s/sealevel.html
• http//www.monroe.k12.lausmhen/lesson.html
• http//www.unmuseum.mus.pa.us/deaddino.htm
• http//www.transatlantech.com/TPS/hot-top-belize-0
  1.html
• http//www.bodnarchuck.com/prehistoric/dinosaur.ht
  ml
• http//www.rr.gmcs.k12.nm.us/dinosaurs.htm
• http//www.dinosaurs.eb.com/dinosaurs/study/act03.
  htm

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Dinosaur Resources

• Books, Videos and Computer Software

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Classroom Library Books

• Nolan, D. (1990). Dinosaur Dream. New York
  MacMillan.
• ISBN 0689718322
• Audio Cassette ISBN 1568760051
• Schnetzler, P. (1996). Ten Little Dinosaurs.
• ISBN 0939251744
• Parker, S. (1991). Dinosaurs and How They Lived.
  DK Publishing
• ISBN 1879431130

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More Books

• Bakker, R. (1996). The Dinosaur Heresies New
  Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs
  and Their Extinction. Zebra Books
• ISBN 0821756087
• Cole, J. (1994). The Magic School Bus In the
  Time of the Dinosaurs. Scholastic Trade ISBN
  0590446886
• Relf, P., Degen, B., Cole, J. (1996) The Magic
  School Bus Gets Eaten A Book About Food Chains.
  Scholastic Trade ISBN 0590484141
• Griffith, H. (1998). Dinosaur Habitat.
  Greenwillow ISBN 0688153240

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Video Resources

• Bill Nye the Science GuyDinosaurs Those Big
  Boneheads! (1994)
• Rated NR
• NTSC format (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, Digital
  Sound, NTSC
• ASIN 6303160352
• Magic School Bus, The - The Busasaurus (1997)
• Rated NR
• NTSC format (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, Animated,
  NTSC
• ASIN 6304400683
• Land Before Time (1988)
• Director Don Bluth
• Edition Details NTSC format (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, Animated,
  Surround Sound, NTSC
• Clamshell Packaging
• ASIN 6303939015

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Dinosaur Software Resources

• Magic School Bus Explores In The Age Of Dinosaurs
  
• Microsoft
• Media CD-ROM
• Platform Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT
• ASIN B00002SACN
• A World of Dinosaurs
• CounterTop Software
• Media CD-ROM
• Platform Windows 95,
• Windows 98, Windows NT
• ASIN B0000326NL

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And More Books . . .

• Children's guide to dinosaurs and other
  prehistoric animals by Philip Whitfield
• Dinosaur encyclopedia by M.J. Benton
• Dinosaur questions by Bernard Most
• Dinosaurs facts, things to make, activities by
  David Lambert and Rachel Wright
• Dinosaurs and their living relatives by British
  Museum (Natural History)
• Discovering dinosaurs an up-to-date guide
  including the newest theories by Victoria
  Crenson, Robert Walters
• How do you draw dinosaurs? by D.C. DuBosque
• If the dinosaurs came back by Bernard Most
• Illustrated encyclopedia of dinosaurs an
  original and compelling insight into life in the
  dinosaur kingdom by David Norman
• Last dinosaur by Jim Murphy
• Maia a dinosaur grows up by James Gorman and
  John R. Horner
• New questions and answers about dinosaurs by
  Seymour Simon
• Patrick's dinosaurs by Carol Carrick, Donald
  Carrick
• Tyrannosaurus was a beast dinosaur poems by Jack
  Prelutsky
• What happened to the dinosaurs? by Franklyn
  Mansfield Branley

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More Videos

• A giant leap for dinosaurs by Museum of the
  Rockies, D.J. Smith and Daniel W. Smith
• Death of the dinosaur by Robin Bates, a PBS Video
  
• Dinosaurs those big boneheads ","Buena Vista Home
  Video (Firm) , Bill Nye Walt Disney Home Video.
• Flesh on the bones" by Robin Bates, Trudi Brown,
  Barbara Feldon, Kathy White, a PBS Video
• How big were the dinosaurs? Bill Walker
  Productions, Coronet/MTI Film and Video
• Where did they go? a dinosaur update by Rainbow
  Educational Video

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THE END

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