Dinosaur Project

Throughout the Month of May, rather than embark on another expedition, we spent our Social Studies and Science block of the day learning about Space and then about Dinosaurs. Taking a more PBL approach rather than a full expedition. Both topics are merely introduced in my curriculum, but act as an amazing stimulus for reading and writing. As a result we did a fully independent research project on dinosaurs. Each kid was given a different letter of the alphabet and had to research a dinosaur with that letter. They then had to create a paragraph with a topic sentence, details sentences and a conclusion sentence. They finished their project by drawing their dinosaur and working as a class to compile them into the book below.