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October: 3rd Grade Month
Understanding Animal Design
Explore Dino Quest as never before as the students get to use the transmitters to discover the mysteries paleontologists are trying to solve, such as why dinosaurs had some of the horns, shields, crests, and tail designs that they had. Standards: LS 3 a, e – pg 9.
November: 2nd Grade Month
Explore Fossil Footprints & Solve a Dino Puzzle
Students will solve mysteries as they investigate footprints and piece together a miniature “dinosaur bone” model. Standards: LS 2 a, c; ES 3 d.
December: 6th Grade Month
Plate Tectonics
Students will have the students arrange an animal fossil (replica is most likely) as a team and then discuss how scientists have used the distribution of fossils as evidence to support the idea of Pangaea and plate tectonics.
January: 4th Grade Month
Watershed Photo Detective
Students use Science Center cameras to capture photos of a variety of plants and evidence of storm water pollution during this interactive investigation of our adjacent Santiago Creek Bed. This program is sponsored by Project Pollution Prevention. Standards: LS 3 b, ES 5 a, c – pg 12.
February: 5th Grade Month
Body Systems & Pathways
Students will have the opportunity to use the DinoQuest transmitters themselves as they investigate the world of dinos, including their body systems, as seen in the giant Argentinosaurus. Standards: LS 2 a, b, c, d.
March: 1st Grade Month
Animal Design and Coloration
Students will discuss how animals have different designs that help them thrive in different environments. Their coloration may help them camouflage or stand out as a warning to predators to not eat them! Students will “design” an animal that may help them survive in a particular environment.