Telluride Elementary / Intermediate Science Curriculum Map

Grade Level: K Dinosaurs

Timeline / Unit Month	Essential Question & Vocabulary	Science Standards	Essential Projects/ Activities	Resources	Assessment
February or March/ Dinosaurs (fossils) (1 week)	What evidence do we have of extinct life? Vocabulary: fossil carnivore herbivore extinct paleontologist skeleton tools microscope museum plaster meteor	1B • use tools and technology to gather information and extend the sense 3E • describe examples of extinct organisms based on fossil evidence 3L • fossils can be compared to one another and to living organisms according to their similarities and differences 4H • recognize that fossils are evidence of past life 5A • identify basic observable patterns and changes in the world and anticipate future events based on those patterns	Scientists called Palentologists search for clues about Dinosaurs • Read: Digging Dinosaurs • Activity: Hide plastic bones in sand and search with toothpicks and paintbrushes; try to assemble an arm or leg Dinosaurs are Extinct • Read & discuss various books about dinosaur extinction • Activity: Play “Dying Dinosaurs” (give small groups a pile of 10 dinos; roll die and take away that number; make a subtraction sentence out loud to represent the dying dinosaurs; first student to 0 is the winner)	Trade books, teacher made/gathered materials plastic dino bones, sand, tools for digging plastic dinosaurs	Bones on the T-Rex worksheet Journal: How do you think dinosaurs all died?