Included is a unit overview and background information for the teacher, seven lessons and links to associated web sites on dinosaurs. Spanish translation is also provided. A large number of activity suggestions for a dinosaur unit for teachers of primary grades. How They Lived A lesson plan for Intermediate students who will use the Internet to find answers to a set of assignment questions that their group has been given. For elementary and Intermediate grades.
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.