Resource #V102291

Précis

This is a curriculum skills-based Science resource that enables students to practise their skills of identifying animal parts, understanding the needs of the dinosaur, and suggesting likely reasons for dinosaurs? physical features and characteristics.

Contextual Summary

The task links to all species featured at Dinosaur Isle museum, thus ensuring relevance on the visit for students in key stages 1-2.

Curriculum Relevance

Science → Biology → Animals

Implementation

It is suggested to teachers that they introduce the topic before the visit, so the subject matter is familiar and they have an understanding of physical characteristics in humans and animals and why they are important to the needs of the individual within their habitat. Students could look at the purposes of and uses for body parts in various species (including dinosaurs, if desired) and identified reasons for these.

Key Skills Practised

• Observation and identification of body parts
• Suggesting reasons for body parts and their uses (specifically for dinosaurs)

Learning Opportunities

Pre-Visit

Students complete work on why body parts are important in providing movement, shape, support, or protection (either in dinosaurs or in other species)

On Site

Completion of the resource/s linked to this document

Post-Visit

This resource could be used as a follow-up task to compund learning or evidence their level of understanding after the visit. Other follow-up tasks could include: whole class discussion about the responses to the questions; groups presenting back their collated responses to the class; Projects on a dinosaur type of particular interest, or uses of body parts in another type of animal

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to demonstrate their ability to observe and identify animal parts for support, protection and movement in dinosaurs, relating to the physical/biological characteristics within a species.