ANCIENT LIFE MONTH

Your students will study sedimentary rocks, dinosaurs and dinosaur bones! They will make fossils from clay, assemble a paper dinosaur skeleton, read amazing books and play fun games such as Dinosaur Duck, Duck, Goose.

(Click on each calendar day to access your lesson plans and teaching resources)

Day

1

Scavenger Hunt and Dinosaur Feet

Read: Living With Waves

Play: Stomp, Stomp, Chomp Tag

STEM: (K-8) Google Earth Erosion Scavenger Hunt

Optional: Make dinosaur feet

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6

Dinosaur Skeleton

Read: Paleontology in Moab

Play: Extinct Dinosaurs

STEM: (K-3) Paper Dinosaur reconstruction

(4-8) Paper dinosaur or salt dough dinosaur bones

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11

Sew a Dino

Read: Dinosaur for Dinner

Play: Whiteboard, or Chalk Pictionary

STEM: (K-8) Sew a dinosaur

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16

Make Volcanoes and a Dig Site

Read: Who's on Divya's Map

Play: Brontosaurus, Brontosaurus, T-Rex

STEM: (K-3) Make a volcano

(4-8) Dino Dig: Bury fossils and make a paleontology dig site

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Day

2

Rock Hunting and Programming

Read: STEMTaught Journal

Play: What Time is it, Mr. Dinosaur?

STEM: (K-3) Go on a rock hunt

Code: (4-8) Robotics

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Day

7

Assemble Skeletons and Tinkercad

Read: Fossils

Play: Dino, May I?

STEM: (K-3) Finish constructing your paper dino skeleton

Tinker Cad: (4-8) Make a dinosaur bone in 3D

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Day

12

Sewing and Tinkercad

Read: Why Don't Birds Comb Their Hair?

Play: D.I.N.O Ball

STEM: (K-3) Continue to sew your dino

Tinker Cad: (4-8) Model a dino egg hatching

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17

Fossil Hunt and Programming

Read: Dino Bird

Play: Dinosaur Relay

STEM: (K-3) Dino dig day

(4-8) Help younger students excavate dino bones

Code: (4-8) Robotics

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3

Programming and Rock Hunting

Read: The Life of a Rock

Play: Brontosaurus, Brontosaurus, T-Rex

Code: (K-3) Robotics

STEM: (4-8) Go on a rock hunt; What size sediment can you blow?

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Day

8

Programming and Sorting Microfossils

Read: The Princess of Paleontology - Part 1

Play: Dino Egg Capture

Code: (K-3) Robotics

STEM: (4-8) Sort, identify and graph microfossils

Optional: Microscopes

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13

Programming and Sewing

Read: Creatures of Old

Play: Dino Round-up Tag

Code: (K-3) Robotics

STEM: (4-8) Finish sewing your dinosaur or sew another

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18

Programming and Fossil Pendants

Read: Discovering Dinos

Play: Dino Hide and Seek

Code: (K-3) Robotics

STEM: (4-8) Make a pendant with the fossil you found

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4

Sediments and Programming

Read: Nana Jani's Beard

Play: Hot Lava Hop

STEM: (K-3) What size sediments can you blow?

Code: (4-8) Robotics

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9

Sorting Microfossils and Programming

Read: The Princess of Paleontology - Part 2

Play: Music Dinosaur Walk

STEM: (K-3) Sort identify and graph microfossils

Code: (4-8) Robotics

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14

Origami and Programming

Read: STEMTaught Journal

Play: Don't Wake the Dino

STEM: (K-3) Make an origami chicken or print and fold dinosaur

Code: (4-8) Robotics

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19

Pasta Dinosaurs
and Programming

Read: The Map that Changed the World

Play: What Time is it, Mr. Dinosaur?

STEM: (K-3) Make a pasta dinosaur skeleton

Code: (4-8) Robotics

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Day

5

Fossil Impressions

Read: STEMTaught Journal

Play: Raptor Races

STEM: (K-8) Make a fossil impression necklace or bowl; Make salt dough bones for dig day

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Day

10

Fossil Bingo and Microfossil Art

Read: Paleontology in Moab

Play: Dinosaur Egg Hunt

STEM: (K-8) Microfossil art; Play fossil bingo

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Day

15

Sedimentary Fossil Cake

Read: Sedimentary Rocks

Play: Raptor Races

STEM: (K-8) Mother Earth's Kitchen: Make a sedimentary layers cake

(4-8) Make an origami chicken

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Day

20

Watch an Educational Movie

Read: Dino Bird

Play: Storytelling

STEM: (K-8) Dinosaurs (movie day)

Optional: Program digestive system hamburger game; Microscopes

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All Ancient Life Month Materials

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Full Monthly Materials List