Dinosaurs!

Subject: Science
Grade: 2 (with reading buddies)
Topic: Dinosaurs

A great site for students to learn about dinosaurs is a section from http://www.kbears.com/. I searched for interactive sites on DINOSAURS and it was one of the first ones to come up. It lists over 40 kinds of dinosaurs and for each kind, it has information, pictures, links to more sites, colouring pages, and sounds. There is a fair amount of reading for a grade 2 level, so I thought this would be a great activity to do with reading buddies from an older grade. Each pair would choose a dinosaur to research and present to the classes. I would create a sheet to be filled out for them to have as a guideline for researching information. From there they would have to come up with a method of displaying the information as well, such as, diorama, posters, pamphlet, etc. At the end, we would have a display day where they would each present their dinosaur with their partner to the classes and then have a chance to go around and look at everyone’s at the end.

TIP: There are also pages similar on the topics of: A-Z Animals, Ocean, and Farms that I could do similar things with, depending on the subject and topic. Again, a bit of reading, so would have to do as a class activity where I would have to lead the group or with reading buddies again.