Grade 1 - A History Of The Earth

The History of the Earth: Supplemental Guide 8 | Dinosaurs 147

Note: Introducing the Read-Aloud and Extensions may have

activity options that exceed the time allocated for that part of

the lesson. To remain within the time periods allocated for each

portion of the lesson, you will need to make conscious choices

about which activities to include based on the needs of your

students.

Exercise Materials Details

Introducing the Read-Aloud (10 minutes)

What Have We Already
Learned?

Fossils Timeline Use the Fossils Timeline to help students

remember the order in which some

scientists believe that living things

inhabited the earth.

Layered cookies, such as a vanilla

wafer cookies, and napkin: one per

student

Have students pretend the wafer is rock

and the soil is the cream. The layers

represent different geologic times when

changes happened to the earth’s crust.

Vocabular y Preview:
Excavating, Meteorite

Image 8A-4

Images 8A-11 and 8A-10

Purpose for Listening Instructional Master 1A-1
(Dinosaurs Idea Web); chart paper,
makers, tape

Create a Dinosaurs Idea Web. Ask

students what they already know about

dinosaurs.

Presenting the Read-Aloud (15 minutes)

Dinosaurs Dinosaurs Idea Web; Instructional
Master 8A-1 (Dinosaur Image
Sheet)

Pause throughout the read-aloud to

record student observations about

dinosaurs on the chart. Add the dinosaur

images from the Dinosaur Image Sheet.

yardstick Use the yardstick to help students

conceptualize the different dinosaur

measurements mentioned in the read-

aloud.

U.S. Map Use the map to show students locations

mentioned in the read-aloud.

Discussing the Read-Aloud (15 minutes)

Comprehension Questions Images 8A-1, 8A-3 Use the images to help support student
understanding of the comprehension
questions.

Word Work: Extinct Images 8A-2, 8A-3, 8A-7, 8A-9 Consider reviewing the names and
images of the dinosaurs prior to the
Sharing activity for follow-up.