1. DINOSAUR UNIT
 Reading/Science : non fictional text to learn
about the science of dinosaurs.
 Writing: Poetry unit
 Math: Fractions
 Art: Encompasses everything learned in the
unit to create visuals for their dinosaur final
presentations

2. Topic: Dinosaurs
3rd Grade
Fun Facts: Skull and jaw was as tall as
a school bus.
Tyrannosaurus Rex: One of the largest dinosaurs
EALR’s Standard for grades 2-3
GOALS: Using a model, students will be able describe the different
layers that make up the earth. In addition, students will understand
the scientific processes that lead to the extinction of dinosaurs. And
the reason why dinosaur fossils can be found on every continent on
earth—including Antarctica.

3. Student Will Be Able To (SWBAT):
•Explain how observations can lead to new knowledge
and new questions about the natural world.
•Use a simple model to study a system. Explain how
the model can be used to understand the system.
•Use the word energy to explain everyday activities
(e.g., food gives people energy to play games).
•Give examples of variations among individuals of the
same kinds of plants and animals within a population.
•Observe fossils and compare them to similar plants or
animals that live today (e.g., compare a fossil fern with a similar
fern that grows today, a dinosaur leg bone with the leg bone of a reptile that
lives today, a mastodon and an elephant).
T or F? Have caveman ever lived alongside
dinosaurs?

4. EALR’s met through Dinosaur Activity:
2-3 LS3A
•Fossils are often similar to parts of plants or
animals that live today.
2-3 PS3A Stegosaurus
•Heat, light, motion, electricity, and sound are all 30 ft long, 14 ft
forms of energy. tall
What benefits
2-3 INQE may its physical
appearance give
•Models are useful for understanding systems that to this
are too big, too small, or too dangerous to study Stegosaurus?
directly.

5. Dinosaur Unit Over a Weeks Time:
•Monday: Understanding the Dinosaur Era.
•Tuesday: Light as a form of energy on earth,
and how it led to the extinction of dinosaurs.
(What is photosynthesis—How does it happen?)
•Wednesday: Dinosaurs are reptiles—How do
We classify species in science?
(Classification activity)
•Thursday: Genetic variation and natural selection
(class activity on how natural selection takes place)
•Friday: Study of modern day reptiles and similar characteristics
found in past dinosaurs

6. DINO MATH UNIT
 EALR
 3.3.ARepresent fractions that have
denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, and 12 as
parts of a whole, parts of a set, and points on the
number line.

7. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:
 Students will learn about fractions and how they
are used.
 Students will deepen their understanding of
fractions by comparing and ordering fractions
and by representing them in different ways

8. DINO MATH FRACTIONS UNIT
 Monday: Egg fractions
 Tuesday: addition/subtraction on number
lines
 Wednesday: Addition of fractions
 Thursday: Subtraction of fractions
 Friday: Interactive Test

9. DINO WRITING UNIT
 EALRs
 1.1-6The student understands and uses a
writing process
 Prewrite, draft, revise, edit, publish
 3.1-3 The student writes clearly and effectively
 Organized clear ideas and writing, appropriate style,
use of appropriate writing conventions

10. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
 Students will demonstrate knowledge of
writing process thru the completion of a
Onomatopoeia poem.
 Students will use their schema and knew
knowledge about dinosaurs to create their
poem
 Students will be assessed on their writing
conventions and presentation

11. ONOMATOPOEIA POEM UNIT
 Monday: Class Poem
 Tuesday: Students begin individual poems
 Wednesday: writing process (draft/edit)
 Thursday: writing process (edit/revise)
 Friday: Publish and present poetry
 The formation or use of words such as buzz or
murmur that imitate the sounds associated with
the objects or actions they refer to.

12. DINO ART
 Monday- Start on paper Mache dinosaur hat
 Tuesday- Build a dinosaur diorama in a shoe
box
 Wednesday- Make a paper T-rex
 Thursday- Make paper finger puppet
dinosaurs
 Friday- Paint the paper Mache dinosaur hat

13. ASSESSMENT
 Students will take quizzes through the week
to check for understanding of material
learned.
 Students will present a dinosaur of their
choice and include interesting facts including
math and science facts as well as presenting
the dinosaur poem.