Students should dig up the fossils the way they learned in the chocolate chip cookie lesson . Students will listen to a tape, follow along in the book, and answer questions on a worksheet describing the content of the story and giving it a recommendation. I Can Read About Prehistoric Animals by David Eastman. I Can Read About Dinosaurs by John Howard. Students can find the information on their trading cards or any book from the classroom or library.
Students can find the information in their reporters' notebook .
Create an art gallery for the museum by having the students paint a picture and a scene around the dinosaur that they were assigned for the take home projects. After building the frame out of the furring strips, crumple papers and tape them around the frame to create the body shape. Each student will have to fill out a job application that asks for the top three jobs they would like to be employed at the museum and a reason why they should be hired to do them. Students must train for the position they have been assigned, practicing how to explain the directions or read the stories.