Welcome to our incredibly rich, hugely fun Dinosaurs Unit Study! Honestly, we had a ball studying up about dinosaurs in our little homeschool. This Dinosaur unit study has a little bit of everything, from history to science to art and maths. Creating Simple Dinosaur Dress up for my Little Ones We began our unit study…
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Fun, Hands-on Dinosaur Unit: Theropods – Tyranosaurus Rex
This week’s focus for our dinosaur unit has been the dinosaurs from the Theropod's group using Tyrannosaurus Rex as an example, and we have had heaps of hand-on fun! Dinosaurs are classified into two groups dependent on the position of the hips: Saurischia (lizard hipped dinosaurs) Ornithiscia (bird hipped dinosaurs) The Saurischia are further divided into Theropods and Sauropods, while…
Fun, Hands-On Dinosaur Unit: Sauropods – Diplodocus
This week’s focus for our dinosaur unit has been the dinosaurs from the Sauropods group using Diplodocus as an example, and we have had heaps of hand-on fun! Dinosaurs are classified into two groups dependent on the position of the hips: Saurischia (lizard hipped dinosaurs) Ornithiscia (bird hipped dinosaurs) The Saurischia are further divided into Theropods and Sauropods,…
How to Have an (Authentic) Paleontology Dig
It was during a visit to the Natural History museum that I got the idea to have a Paleontology Dig. We had already excavated cookies, but this time I wanted to make it as true to life as possible. There was a display at the museum, showing the latest dinosaur discovery in (would you believe…
How to Make Your Own Sedimentary rock
We learnt about sedimentary rock as preparation for the dinosaur dig we would be doing. We used the pack from TPT entitled Understanding Paleontology: I had A7 read out the reader on Paleontologists included in the pack, which the girls then coloured in: We learnt about sedimentary rock: and filled in a lovely sheet about how…
Fun, Hands-On Dinosaur Unit: Cerapods – Tricerotops
This week's focus for our dinosaur unit has been the dinosaurs from the Cerapods group using Triceratops as an example, and we have had heaps of hand-on fun! Dinosaurs are classified into two groups dependant on the position of the hips: Saurischia (lizard hipped dinosaurs) Ornithiscia (bird hipped dinosaurs) The Saurischia are further divided into Theropods and…
Fun, Hands On Dinosaur Unit: Thyreophora – Stegasaurus
The girls have had enormous fun learning about the dinosaurs from the Thyreophora group using the Stegasaurus as an example. Dinosaurs are classified into two groups dependant on the position of the hips: Saurischia (lizard hipped dinosaurs) Ornithiscia (bird hipped dinosaurs) The Saurischia are further divided into Theropods and Sauropods, while the Ornithiscia are divided into Thyreophora and…
An Experiment to Demonstrate how Gastroliths Help a Dinosaur Digest its Food
Last week in our dinosaur unit we learnt that Stegosaurus, our dinosaur of the week, was a herbivore and ingested stones known as gastroliths (a bit like hens ingesting gravel), which helped to break down the tough plant material. This was a glaring opportunity to experiment and investigate a bit further. Equipment for each child…
Fun, Hands On Dinosaur Unit Study: Week 1
Last term we began a really fun unit study on Dinosaurs which is proving to be waaay more popular than I first thought it would. A7, in particular, would sit and listen to me reading out loud from her dinosaur encyclopedia all day long if I let her. I don't 😉 Making Dinosaur Dress Up I…
Growing Sibling Relations: Build a Junk Abandtosaurus!
One of my parenting goals has always been to have children who love each other and truly delight in each other. One way I have found helpful in building these precious relationships is to make sure they have lots of time to just be together. Obviously, in a family setting this happens naturally, however I…
Dinosaur Party Activities
I was searching through old photos for something or other and came across these ones of a dinosaur birthday party I organised for a niece of ours in Northern Ireland. Full of fun activities, I thought I would share, especially as there are going to be some dinosaur themed posts following over the next few…