Fantastic Fossils Class Hour

Explanatory note

The class hour is for students in grades 5-6.
The presenter is a teacher, assisted by assistants - children.
Class hour type - combined.
Main activities: conversation, play, visual activities, ingenuity tasks.
The class hour is divided into several stages Each stage contains new material Children are given pre-subjects of dinosaur messages, lyrics of the song "Dinosaur" (Words by Rimitian A, Composer by Reznikov V), poem "Dinosaur"
Children consolidate new knowledge through competitions, songs, games, and quizzes.
The entire course of the class hour is accompanied by a multimedia presentation prepared by the class teacher together with the children.

Objectives:

• To intensify the cognitive interests of schoolchildren in the field of wildlife through acquaintance with amazing animals of the past - dinosaurs;

Tasks:

• Educational: to form students' understanding of the life of dinosaurs on Earth in the Mesozoic era, the ability to establish relationships in nature.
• Educational: develop imagination and observation, thinking and cognitive activity.
• Educational: cultivate interest in studying the history of planet Earth, its nature.

Equipment: laptop, Multimedia Projector, Big Screen, Presentation, Whatman paper, Brushes, Paints, Pencils, All About Dinosaurs Book Exhibition, Dinosaur Song Phonogram (Words by Rimitsian A, Composer by Reznikov V)

Class hour progress

Stage I:
Teacher: Hello guys! I just recently read a very interesting book about ancient prehistoric animals and I want to tell you about them. And what kind of animals are you, try to guess!
The task appears on the screen:
Teacher asks questions After answering correctly by clicking the mouse, the named letter is displayed on the screen.

1. Name the first winter month. First letter? (Dec)
2. The second letter in the word winter? (AND)
3. Third month of autumn. First letter? (Noyabr)
4. September, October. These are the months of what time of year? First letter? (Osen)
5. What is the coldest time of year? First letter? (Zima)
6. What is the season between winter and summer? Last letter? (SpringA)
7. Name the last month of summer? Second letter? (Ahingust)
8. First month of spring? Third letter? (Mart)

Teacher: What happened? DINOSAUR - translated into Russian "terrible lizard" But the dinosaurs are not at all terrible in the song we know that I invite you to perform.

"Dinosaur"
The author of the words is Rimitsian A., composer - Reznikov V.

1 As always during weekend hours
My son asks me to tell me a fairy tale
I got extremely tired of this matter even then
And then I suddenly decided
Tell us about dinosaurs
And since then we’ve only been talking about them

Chorus:
Dinosaurs, maybe you hid in Africa
And chew baobabs for breakfast
Despite all science and boredom
Dinosaurs, dinosaurs
Dinosaurs, dinosaurs

2, "No Dinosaurs" - I Talk All Day
"Know punished for being too lazy".
Know that they didn’t often clean their mouths with pasta in the morning
They are not interested in knowing charging
The nobles were overweight
Only he whispers through his sleep anyway

Chorus

Stage II
Teacher: Today we will meet some representatives of these amazing animals, find out when they lived and why they are not there now.
According to scientists, the Universe arose 14 billion years ago, and the Earth and planets of the solar system - just over 4 billion years ago. Scientists divided the history of the Earth and life on it into certain intervals - eras that are divided into periods.
The Archean era (3500 million years ago) is an era of hidden life, it indicates the existence of bacteria and blue-green algae that did not appear immediately.
Paleozoic Era (350 Ma) - Age of Marine Invertebrates and Fish.
Mesozoic era (150 Ma) - dinosaur era.
Cenozoic Era (65 Ma) - Time of Beasts, (2 Ma) - Time of Man.
Dinosaurs lived only in the Mesozoic era (225 -65 Ma).They reached a remarkable flowering and quickly became extinct.
London professor sir Richard Owen - zoologist and paleontologist, first to name dinosaurs dinosaurs.
He lived in the 19th century (1804 - 1892).
Teacher: And now we'll draw you a little And the theme of our drawing "Kroshka - Dinosaur" I give you the floor of whatman paper, brushes, paints, pencils. I urge you to show maximum imagination and color the dinosaur. Good luck to you!
(children draw)
Teacher: Some people say dinosaurs inhabited the Earth when it was "young" That's not entirely true. If you imagine Earth's entire multimillion-dollar history as a single day, dinosaurs lived on it for less than an hour. And the history of human civilization would fit into half a second. Dinosaurs appeared 240 million years ago and disappeared 65 million ago. Dinosaurs belonged to the reptile or reptile class.
I suggest you watch a snippet of the BBC movie "Walking with Dinosaurs"
(Watching a movie)
Teacher: There were many species of dinosaurs, but they all lived at different times Some were very large, others were small Some moved fast, others slowly. However, they all lived on land and none of them flew Dinosaur babies hatched from eggs their mother laid in the sand. Dinosaurs dominated Earth for years.
They survived due to being more mobile and larger than other animals, in addition, they easily adapted to different environmental conditions.
Today we will get to know some of them.

Dinosaurs are divided into

1. Long-necked
2. Duck-billed
3. Armored
4. Quick-footed.
5. Horned
6. Runners.
7. Light hunters.
8. Clawed
9. Fatheads
10. Birdlegs
11. Giants

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Teacher: Why do dinosaurs have such strange names? (Dinosaur names come from two ancient languages - Latin and Greek. Usually the names indicated some sign of this animal: megalosaurus - large lizard, deinonychus - scary claw, triceratops - three-horned muzzle, stegosaurus - lizard under the roof. Some names of dinosaurs are named after some people or places. So, the masi-acaurus was named after the rock singer Mark Knopfler)
Student reports (given in advance)
1 student:
Tyrannosaurus
Tyrannosaurus - the largest predator that has ever inhabited our planet Its remains were first found in 1902 in Asia and western North America Tyrannosaurus means "tyrant lizard" It lived at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 80 million years ago. This huge 15-meter giant weighed more than 8 tons. One of its skulls was one and a half meters long. Sharp shark-like teeth protruded from its wide-spread mouth. Tyrannosaurus rex moved on its powerful hind legs. Its front legs were short, weak and had only two fingers. The huge head and short body were balanced by a long and thick tail. There is an opinion that ferocious tyrannosaurs ate mainly carrion, because they did not run very fast and could not pursue the victim. With their terrible appearance, they probably scared away other predators from their prey. But recently many scientists believe that Tyrannosaurus rex was a formidable hunter-killer. He ran quite quickly (40 km/knextended his victim). It was again a hypothesis that he killed his victim.
2 pupils:
Diplodocus
Diplodocus one of the true giants of the late Jurassic period The first fossilized skeleton was found in 1877 in the Rocky Mountains (Colorado).The diplodocus reached a length of 30 meters. Of these, most were on the neck and tail. Its bones were hollow, so it weighed little - about 10 tons. Paleontologists called this dinosaur diplodocus because at the end of the back, in the sacral region it had a second brain. By the way, the diplodocus's brain weighed less than the kitten's brain. Probably, the diplodocus had a great herd lifestyle, feeding on the leaves of low trees. They could not chew, they swallowed stones that helped them grind food. All day long, the diplodocus wandered through swamps, did not live in warm water and ate, ate without end. The long tail of the diplodocus, which ended in thin "finger", served as an excellent weapon of defense.
3 pupils:
Triceratops
Triceratops - appeared at the end of the dinosaur era, roughly 70 Ma. Inhabited in North America. Triceratops was a real giant: about 10 m long, 3 m high, and weighed 11 tons. It moved on four mighty, column-like legs. Triceratops means "three-horned face. The animal must have used these long horns as a weapon. The neck of Triceratops was protected by a huge bone frill. Despite its menacing appearance, Triceratops was a peaceful animal. It ate plants. Triceratops were herd-like. Even huge, hungry Tyrannosaurs were wary of attacking an adult male Triceratops, much less an entire herd.
4 pupils:
Stegosaurus
Stegosaurus - plate-covered squamous lizard It's the "weirdest animal" according to British zoologist Richard Owen, its remains were first found in the U.S. in 1877 Stegosaurus was quadrupedal and herbivorous. About 10 meters long and weighed no more than 2 tons It had a tiny head and a walnut-sized brain. At the end of its tail there were two pairs of horn-like spines. They helped the stegosaurus defend itself against predators. The most surprising thing about the creature was a series of large bone plates that came down along its back. They may have served as a stegosaurus for protection from predators. And maybe helped control the dinosaur's body temperature. They helped cool the body, which was important in the unusually hot climate of the Earth.
Stage III
Teacher: I offer you the Dinosaur Experts contest.
You have to guess who you are talking about and put a number on the corresponding name of the dinosaur.
Each has leaflets with dinosaur names on their table. Serially numbered slides of dinosaurs appear on the screen. You should put a number on the corresponding dinosaur name.
Card
Diplodocus
Tyrannosaurus
Stegosaurus
Triceratops
(Answers: Diplodocus - 3, Tyrannosaurus - 1, Stegosaurus - 4, Triceratops - 2)
IV stage
Teacher: There were no humans yet in the days of dinosaurs No human has ever seen dinosaurs.
Now I suggest you read from the pictures a story about how Mila and Vova went to the museum to look at the skeletons of dinosaurs.
(Children reading a story)
V stage
Descendants of dinosaurs
Teacher: Birds - the only authentic descendants of dinosaurs Many elements of their body structure and egg strongly suggest that their ancestors were small carnivorous dinosaurs The reason birds survived is that they could regulate body temperature even in harsh climates - primarily due to their plumage. The ostrich bears a striking resemblance to an ostrich dinosaur, the California running cuckoo - to a small predatory dinosaur - compsognatus.
Teacher: Rumors and legends occasionally appear that dinosaurs have survived to this day In Scotland, strange phenomena occur on Loch - Ness: as if a creature of enormous size floats to the surface of a lake.
Surely the depths of the ocean hold many unsolved mysteries.A lone monster can't dwell at the bottom of the lake.A whole family must live there, or the monster must grow old and die. But if there are, for example, twenty monsters in the water, why do we see them so rarely?
One of the most common theories is that the Loch Ness monster may be a plesiosaur that survived to this day. Plesiosaurus is a marine reptile that lived during the heyday of dinosaurs, which ended about 65 million years ago. However, about 10 thousand years ago, there was a huge glacier at the site of Loch Ness. It is unlikely that any animals could have survived in subglacial waters. The monster could have been an ice block.
The depth of the lake is about 250 meters, and only the first 40 meters can become a place of residence for ordinary marine animals. There are no signs of life below, since the water temperature rarely rises above 5C throughout the year. Any inhabitant of the depths feeds on plankton, which usually lives closer to the surface. Reptiles are known to be unable to withstand such cold, amphibians are too.
Stage VI
Reflection.
Teacher: Here comes our Fantastic Fossils class hour We've learned a lot about dinosaurs How they lived, what they ate, what dinosaur descendants surround you and me.
Pay attention to the book exhibition I have prepared for you There are also children's encyclopedias and books from the “ series I want to know everything”. In these books you will find answers to all questions.
Now let's check how you listened carefully in class today Take the signal cards If you hear the correct statement, then raise the green card if the wrong one is red.

• Dinosaurs lived in the past. (Yes)
• In the days of dinosaurs, there were no humans on Earth. (Yes)
• Dinosaurs were very large in size. (Yes)
• Animals that feed on plants are called predators. (No)
• Herbivorous dinosaurs had small, flat teeth. (Yes)
• Predators hunted herbivores. (Yes)

(Children recite verse)
Dinosaur.
1 student:
A dinosaur is a huge lizard
Once upon a time he lived, and we remember him.
2 pupils:
The dinosaur is long gone -
A skeleton was created from his bones.
3 pupils:
Neck Longer Than Giraffe Neck -
She knows how to get leaves from trees.
4 pupils:
The dinosaur was placed in the house completely so that
We need to build him a house with a large skyscraper.
It's a shame the dinosaur didn't live to see me -
I would get one for myself instead of a horse!
5 pupil:
It's a shame the dinosaur didn't live to see me -
He would guard my house instead of a dog.
Dinosaur is tall, but heights are dangerous -
Instead of flies, his planes flicker.
6 pupil:
Dinosaur needs to work as a firefighter -
He will save anyone without stairs because.
The aground appears What happened to the river? -
Dinosaurs made a watering hole here.

VII stage
Lesson result.
Teacher: Guys! Did you enjoy our class hour? Well done! and as a memory of our class today, I would like to give you this wonderful coloring book. Thank you!

List of references used

• V.G. Babenko, A.V. Pakhnevich The world around us. Dinosaurs, reptiles, amphibians. Small encyclopedia. M.: ONYX XXI century, 2001.
• V.F. Polozhaeva, translation into Russian. Series of books What is what. Dinosaurs, 1994
• Translation from English by Avdonina M. Dinosaurs. Complete encyclopedia. M.: Eksmo, 2006.
• Translation from English by Morozova M. Walking with dinosaurs. M.: Egmont Russia Ltd., 2002.
• Air Force films
• "Dinosaur Planet. "A Dangerous World with a New Perspective through the Eyes of Dinosaurs" Ch1, Ch2.
• "The Ballad of Big Al: Walking with Dinosaurs"
• "Walking with Dinosaurs" Ch1, Ch2.

Applications:

1, Lesson summary (.docx)

2, Presentation (.pptx)

3, Coloring pages (.jpg)

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