Our first learning adventure is all about 'What happened to the Dinosaurs?'
Please see more detail about the subjects, skills and knowledge the children will explore and some of the learning you can expect your children to talk about when they get home! We read lots of stories and texts about dinosaurs so feel free to join in at home with any dinosaur reading or facts.
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Year 1 Science Dinosaurs |
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Engage and Inspire: Dinosaur workshop
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Aspects of working scientifically covered.
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Focus Skill: Identifying and classifying
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Scientific Knowledge: Herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and their diets |
Scientific skills development Primary sources by attending the dinosaur workshop Secondary sources by using images
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Key Vocabulary: Herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, extinct, bones
Other vocabulary: Bones, diet, growth |
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Year 1 History Dinosaurs |
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Engage and inspire: Dinosaur fossil workshop
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Overall understanding: Children are aware dinosaurs lived but are no longer alive. Know there are different theories for the dinosaurs’ extinction and develop their own opinion of how it happened.
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Focus Skills Read a timeline and read books for facts
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Knowledge *Knowing dinosaurs are no longer alive. *Knowing dinosaurs lived before any human was alive. *Knowing dinosaurs became extinct but we cannot really know how for sure. |
Skills *Reading books for facts. *Digging for clues. *Read a timeline. *Use key vocabulary correctly within a historical context.
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Key Vocabulary: Fossil, long ago, Earth, underground, theory, known, unknown, extinct, meteor, facts, timeline
Other vocabulary:
dinosaur, information, alive, dead, weather, volcano, human, million, year |