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HEADS UP!
(QuickPlan developed by Amy K. Mechling, Clarion, Pennsylvania)
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OVERVIEW: Students construct a paper dinosaur head (Triceratops) to scale and learn how dinosaur fossils get dug out of the ground by scientists and reassembled in a museum.
BOOKLINK: Digging Up Dinosaurs by Aliki. Harper Collins Publishers, 1981, 1988. ISBN 0-06-445078-3
SCIENCE ACTIVITY LINK: Students create a model life-sized dinosaur head to discover relative size.
OBJECTIVE: When students complete the activity and book, they will be able to describe the size of Triceratops and other dinosaurs, communicate the meaning of scale, and describe how dinosaurs are dug out of the ground and reassembled in a museum.
SCIENCE PROCESSES AND CONTENT: Processes—observing, communicating, predicting, inferring, formulating models, and measuring. Content— characteristics of organisms, organisms and environments, dinosaurs and fossil evidence, tools and techniques of science, changes in environments, careers in science, e.g. paleontologist, geologist, draftsmen, and museum workers.
NATIONAL SCIENCE EDUCATION STANDARDS: Unifying Concepts and Processes, (1) Science as Inquiry, (3) Life Science, (4) Earth and Space Science, (5) Science and Technology, (6) Science in Personal and Social Perspectives, (7) Science as a Human Endeavor
MATERIALS: Blank grid, grid of Triceratops head (cut apart), 8 1/2" by 11" paper, pencils, tape, crayons, book Digging Up Dinosaurs
PROCEDURE:
1. Cut apart the grid which contains individual rectangles on which are drawn a large dinosaur head.
2. Each student will be given a small rectangle (or more, depending on size of the group). Each individual rectangle contains a portion of the picture of the dinosaur head and a number but do not tell them that they are working on a dinosaur. You may wish to call it a "mystery object."
3. The students are responsible for enlarging each small rectangle onto a regular piece of paper. Students should write the number of each rectangle on the back of the large piece of paper. The number identifies the location of their rectangle on the master grid.
4. The students should use a pencil to copy the markings found within the sample rectangle in approximately the same locations of the regular sheet of paper. Students should make their drawings as exact as they can to their sample rectangle.
5. The students should use the blank grid to assemble the individual sections of the dinosaur head. Tape the individual pieces of paper to the blank grid. Students should place their papers in the corresponding number space. The shape of the dinosaur head should become recognizable as the papers are assembled. Encourage students to make predictions and inferences about what the figure appears to be as it is being reconstructed.
6. After the Triceratops head is assembled (Triceratops means "three-horned-face"), the students may color it. Remember-scientists do not know the exact color of dinosaurs, so creativity is acceptable and encouraged!
7. Discussions should ensue concerning the size of dinosaurs (the head should turn out to be actual size). Follow up by reading the book Digging Up Dinosaurs, pointing out the sizes of the dinosaur skeletons relative to the people in the pictures. Point out the Triceratops skeleton on page 7. Stress the portions of the book which describe how experts work together to dig dinosaur fossils out of the ground and put them together again inside museums—replicating the sizes of the dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago.
RELATED BOOKS:
If Dinosaurs Came to Town by Dom Mansell, Little, Brown and Company, 1991. ISBN 0-316-67028-6
Dinosaurs by Mary Packard, Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers,1981. ISBN 0-671-430-40-8
The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs by Joanna Cole, Scholastic, Inc., 1994. ISBN 0-590-44688-6
Can I Have a Stegosaurus, Mom? Can I? Please? by Lois G Grambling, BridgeWater Paperback, 1995. ISBN 0-8167-3387-2
Tyrannosaurus Rex and Its Kin: The Mesozoic Monsters
by Helen Roney Sattler, Lothrop, Lee&Shepard Books, 1989. ISBN 0-688-07747-1
Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals by Robin Wright, Troll Associates, 1991. ISBN 0-8167-2233-1
The Dinosaur Question and Answer Book by Sylvia Funston, Little, Brown and Company, 1992. ISBN 0-316-57021-4
Children's Guide to Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals by Philip Whitfield, Simon and Schuster, 1992. ISBN 0-02-762362-9
Dinosaurs Sticker Book, Barnes and Noble Books, 1986. ISBN 0-7607-0905-X
Dinosaur Show and Tell by Ellen Keller, Steck-Vaughn Company, 1997. ISBN 0-8172-6435-3
Dinosaur Fun Facts by Ellen Keller, Steck-Vaughn Company, 1997. ISBN 0-8172-6436-1
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