Students visit several on-line museums with dinosaur exhibits. While at the sites students will gather information about dinosaurs' habitats and survival needs and ways in which dinosaurs met these needs. This information serves as the basis for a discussion of adaptation. In this discussion a comparison is made between adaptation of species including humans. This is a thematic dinosaur unit created for a second grade class and covers four weeks.
Primary students develop fine motor, visual and language skills while learning about dinosaurs.
Language Arts Check these sites for ideas for a unit about dinosaurs. The National History Museum offers a selection of suggested classroom activities for teachers looking for ideas for dinosaur units in a variety of subject areas. In this unit students investigate a variety of animals that lived long ago. They examine some of the ways in which evidence supporting the existence of dinosaurs is obtained. Included are ideas for English, Biology, Math, and Social Studies.