Our Dinosaur Inquiry - Part 2

This week we have continued on with our dinosaur research.  After reading about Triceratops, also known as "three horned face," we crafted our own little three horned faces out of egg cartons, pipe cleaners and a muffin wrapper for the frill. 

We discovered that Ankylosaurus was entirely covered in thick boney plates to help protect against carnivores.  We were very curious about the boney club on its tail. We worked together to transform our dinosaur tails into a tail with a club.  Of course we had to test the tails out to see what it would be like to protect ourselves against carnivores. 

A few of the students had noticed that many of the dinosaurs we have studied so far have been large, plant eating dinosaurs. So, the next dinosaur we learned about was the exact opposite. Velociraptor was a small, meat eating dinosaur that ran extremely fast and was covered in feathers. To help us remember what was interesting about Velociraptor, we sketched feathers to help create a class Velociraptor.  We also took advantage of the nice weather and went outside and had Raptor races with our buddies!

Each time we learn about a new dinosaur, we are very curious about the size.  With Mr. V's help, we have been able to visually see how long each dinosaur was. First, we place a cut out dinosaur head on the wall.  Then, we use a meter stick to count out how many meters long the dinosaur was and place the tail on the wall to show the length.  Just for fun, we did some non-standard measurement and used our bodies to measure with.