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March 5, 2015
Bluefield State College
Daily Lesson Plan
Topic: Dinosaurs
Grade:
First
World map
Photocopy of a Tyrannosaurus Rex
Photocopy of forested river valley in North America
Photocopy of Velociraptor
Photocopy of deserts of Asia
Photocopy of Ankylosaur
Photocopy of South Pole
Copy of world map (one per student)
Note taking graphic organizer (one per student)
Medium sized poster board (one piece per student)
Methods:
Materials:
what land forms would be found there. We will continue this pattern until we have at least
three landforms for each of the three continents listed.
Differentiation:
Tier 1 learners: Instead of writing the type of landform, students
would have the option of drawing the landform with colored
pencils under the correct continent.
Tier 2 learners: Teacher will monitor students, providing additional
prompts of landforms so they can place it under the correct
continent heading.
Tier 3 learners: Students will complete the graphic organizer and
will be permitted to use technology (computers) to locate
additional types of dinosaurs that may have lived within the
landforms discussed.
Closure:
To wrap our lesson, I will remind students of the definition of a landform: a natural
feature of a land surface, while holding up the picture of each dinosaur along with the
landforms that it lived among. I will also place the map of continents on the projection
screen while prompting students to tell me what landform(s) I would find in Asia? In
North America? In Antarctica?
Independent Practice (You do):
I will post on projector the name and picture of each of the three dinosaurs and the
continent that they are associated with. (For example: Velociraptor/Asia) Students will
recall and list on lined paper at least three of the different landforms associated with each
dinosaur and continent. Students will also draw a sketch using crayons/colored pencils of
one of the landforms they listed for each continent. (For example: if student listed
glaciers, ice caves, and ice mountains for Antarctica, student would illustrate only one of
those items.) The illustration could be drawn underneath each continents list of
landforms.
Assessment/Evaluation of Lesson:
Students will create an illustration on poster board of their favorite landform that we
studied in this lesson. This illustration is to be like an advertisement for the landform that
they have chosen, they need to sell the landform. Students will be permitted to use words
on their posters, however students must have an illustration of the landform and why it
would be good to purchase. (For example if I were illustrating a river, I would perhaps
draw people swimming, or boating) Students will be encouraged to be creative! In the
event students posters are not completed by the end of the class, they will be permitted to
work on them the next day.