As part of our themed study about dinosaurs, tomorrow we are going 'fossil' hunting. The children are going to be given a tray in which 'fossils' have been buried. The 'fossils' are really the wooden parts from those model dinosaurs that you can construct. The idea is to get them to not only excavate the 'fossils' but then try to assemble them without having a picture or diagram to work from. This will hopefully put them in a similar position to the early Victorian fossil hunters who used a bit of guesswork andconjecture to assemble their finds. Obviously after a while I'll put them out of their misery - maybe! Oh, and just to get them into the spirit even more, each tray does not necessarily contain all the parts of a dinosaur model.
Some of the Y2 children have also completed their woven bookmarks.
2 comments:
My daughter went "fossil" hunting at the museum last month. We loved it. :D
Thanks for posting demandablog. The children entered into the role-play aspect very successfully. Some of them displayed excellent deductive reasoning that had lain quite well hidden beforehand.
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