Any recommendations for #dinosaur activities for a class of 4-5 year-olds? Visiting my daughter's classroom in a few weeks to talk about #dinosaurs, but coming up short on ideas! I have access to #3dprinting and laser cutter if that helps... #SciComm #education 🦖🦕
@poswald ooh that looks fun! Might take a while to print enough for a whole classroom. But could be a good activity station among others!
@dtpolet Put fake fossils in play dough while teaching them about the layers and how we can guesstimate time based on the layers of things buried. Then let the playdough dry and exchange them, and let them break them and "dig up" the fossils and guess (from a color chart) hold old the fossils are.
@omi what a great idea!
@dtpolet I'm a mom so I was thinking, what would get my silly kids excited!? Haha. Good luck with your talk.
@omi I used your idea today in class! I didn't have layers but I made playdough balls in three different colours, each with a dinosaur inside. Didn't have time to let them dry, but the kids loved making dinosaur tracks and impressions afterwards in the soft dough.
They took their excavated dino to a station to find a matching picture, and learn their dinosaur's name. Next they put their dino picture on a chart in the Triassic, Jurassic or Cretaceous row, depending on the colour of the dough! It was great fun!
@dtpolet Thats awesome!
@dtpolet At 5, it's hard to really get them to focus long. Maybe focus on 4 famous dinos like Tyrannosaurus(small arms), Brontosaurus(long neck), Pterodactyl(wings), Triceratops(horns), and use the traits to play make believe. So trex would have curled arms and they all run around roaring lol. Or bront would have one arm extended (like a neck) trying to reach a tree. Or tric has finger horns walking in line. Or pter flies around the classroom. Make believe. Then test them?
@dtpolet maybe have them play this Dino Balance game while you talk about dinosaurs? https://www.printables.com/model/72180-dino-balance