Full Description
Take your advanced students on a simulated dinosaur dig and hone the analytical skills required to think like a paleontologist!
Designed to meet the needs of gifted students in grades 5-6, this award-winning curriculum unit consists of 30 lesson plans structured around an included 26-chapter novel. Based on the author's real-life experiences, your students will join Dorian as he travels from New York City to Montana to participate in a paleontological dig. Employing problem-based learning and Socratic seminars, these engaging lessons give students the space to choose which parts of the lessons they'd like to explore further while encouraging them to investigate change over time, from the age of the dinosaurs to the modern era.
With opportunities for student choice and targeted social-emotional learning discussions embedded throughout, this award-winning unit is a must-have for gifted educators seeking to facilitate active student engagement while integrating an exciting, problem-based learning unit into their curriculum.
Contents
1. Conceptualizing Change 2. Calculating the Consequences 3. A Trippy Train Trip 4. Digging Into Dorian 5. The Euphoria of Meeting Victoria 6. The Impact of Incorrect References 7. A Cavalcade of Character Sketches 8. Dino Plinko 9. Location Matters 10. Care and Feeding of a Dinosaur 11. Dreaming Up Drone Duties 12. From Bone to Stone 13. Dynamic Deductions 14. Deciphering a Dinosaur Dilemma 15. Fighting Fears and Considering Cycles 16. Reexamining Relationships 17. Creatures and Careers 18. Predator Competitors 19. Hand Drawing a Hadrosaur 20. Profile on Prejudice 21. Designing a Drone 22. Awesome Idioms 23. Gyroscopes and Game Plans 24. Breaker Space Breakdown 25. Searching for Serendipity 26. Delineating the Denouement 27. Victoria? Meet Sue! 28. Half On / Half Off 29. The Evolution of Dorian 30. The Grit Games
