Recently I have had loads of difficult questions from the children such as "How did apes turn into people?", and "Were monsters alive when dinosaurs were?". So I decided to try out this unit study on evolution from Intellego Unit Studies. So far the children and I are pretty impressed.
The first part is about palaeontology. First we talked about what we already know and what we want to find out.
By R |
By L |
We then followed some links in the curriculum to read up on fossils and palaeontology. We also , watched some videos. We then found out a bit about diversity. This involved some new vocabulary.
By R |
By R |
Next we went outside to see how diverse life is in our garden.
By R |
By L |
We then explored the house for evidence of life (or things that had once been alive). Our nature table, fridge and food cupboards contained lots of diversity.
By R |
By L |
Next we watched some videos about palaeontologists. We talked about how collecting fossils and interpreting them can be like doing a jigsaw puzzle with some of the pieces missing. So next we made a jigsaw, took out some of the pieces, buried it, and then dug it up again.
Diplodocus puzzle by L |
Stegosaurus puzzle by R |
Burying the puzzles |
Excavating the "fossils" |
The children then had to put the puzzles back together and add their interpretations for the missing sections.
We're only a short way in to the unit study so stay tuned for more...
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