New Dinosaur related learning on the "Class of 2011" Blog

Over the last couple of weeks, Room 7 students have been adding dinosaur related posts to the Class of 2011 blog.  If you haven't visited recently, then pop over and have a good look around. Just remember, this blog is full of student learning, so be supportive with your comments!

Tim's new Dinosaur Blog!

Tim has been very busy at home making a really cool blog about dinosaurs!

Tim's Dinosaur Blog

You can visit his blog by clicking HERE, or click on the link under the 'student blog' heading to the left.

Well done Tim- your blog will be a good source of information for our individual research projects next week!

Applying knowledge and understanding

For the last 3 weeks, Room 7 has been in the Excite! and Explore! stage of our term long Dinosaur investigation. "What do I think I know" and "What have I found out" have been the questions during this phase. Now it is time to start putting the pieces together, a bit like a jigsaw puzzle. The final, longest stage of the dinosaur investigation is about to commence, the Explain! stage, where the key question is "What does it all mean?"

One of the explaining tasks the children have been given is to create their own, recently discovered dinosaur species. They need to apply all that they have learned about dinosaur habitat, eating/hunting habits, appearance and other characteristics, to their newly created dinosaur. They will write a 'scientific report' that describes their dinosaur for the wider scientific community (other classes!).

In this post are photos of the first stages of the 'creation' process, where children brainstorm their ideas first, then organise these ideas into different categories. These categories serve as the basis for paragraphs in the 'scientific report'.