Assembly Programs: Dinosaur!!!
Mr. Rob feeds our baby Maiasaur puppet.
How do scientists know that dinosaurs ever roamed the Earth? Puppets, fossils, and large interactive props help to show younger students how rocks, bones, and tracks help scientists search for answers about everyone’s favorite extinct animals.
“Dinosaur!!!” aligns with the following points of the Maryland State Voluntary Curriculum:
Skills and Processes
Grades K, 1, 2
- Raise questions about the world around them and be willing to seek answers to some of them by making careful observations and trying things out. Use tools such as rulers to gather data. (A.1c)
Develop reasonable explanations for observations made, investigations completed, and information gained by sharing ideas and listening to others’ ideas. (B.1b)
- Recognize that tools are used to do things better or more easily and to do some things that could not otherwise be done at all. (D.1b)
Life Sciences
Grade K
- Recognize that living things are found almost everywhere in the world and that there are somewhat different kinds of living things in different places. (D.1)
Grade 1
- Describe some of the ways in which animals depend on plants and on each other. Examine organisms in a wide variety of environments to gather information on how animals satisfy their need for food (some animals eat only plants, some animals eat only other animals, some animals eat both plants and other animals). (E.1a)
Grade 2
- Examine pictures of organisms that lived long ago, such as dinosaurs, and describe how they resemble organisms that are alive today. Recognize that some organisms have completely disappeared. (D.1bc)