CURRICULUM
MAP
|
School: Central/Liberty |
Teacher(s): |
Grade/Level: 4 |
Discipline: Dinosaurs/Fossils |
|
Year: |
Day 1 |
Day 2 |
Day 3 |
Day 4 |
Day 5 |
|
Content Theme Topic Area |
Fossil |
Fossil |
Fossil |
Fossil |
Fossil |
|
Outcomes Essential Questions (Objectives) |
Introduction of fossils |
Make a Fossil |
Recording data of archaeology from fossils |
Construct mystery shoe prints |
Relate and compare shoe prints to physical characteristics of a living thing |
|
Skills NJ CCS |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Assessment |
Note-taking |
Constructing and experimenting |
Recording observations |
Classifying and organizing |
Drawing and comparing |
|
Key Resources |
Fossils National Geographic |
Activity Sheet 2 Part A |
Activity Sheet 2 Part B |
Activity Sheet 5 |
Continue Activity Sheet 5 |
CURRICULUM
MAP
|
School: Central/Liberty |
Teacher(s): |
Grade/Level: 4 |
Discipline: Dinosaurs/Fossils |
|
Year: |
Day 6 |
Day 7 |
Day 8 |
Day 9 |
|
|
Content Theme Topic Area |
Dinosaur/Fossil |
Fossil |
Fossil |
Fossil |
|
|
Outcomes Essential Questions (Objectives) |
Visually identify the fossilization process |
Understand the steps of a living thing becoming a fossil |
Understand the concept of radiocarbon dating |
Modeling radiocarbon dating *Experiment |
|
|
Skills NJ CCS |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Assessment |
List five new things that were discovered |
Journal Prompt: Sequence steps |
Students generate own questions on topics |
Graphing and collecting data |
|
|
Key Resources |
Eyewitness Video: “Dinosaurs” *Use “Jurassic Park” to tie in |
Uncovering Earth’s History Pgs. 10-11 |
Uncovering Earth’s History Pgs. 21-23 |
Uncovering Earth’s History Pgs. 28-29 |
|
CURRICULUM
MAP
|
School: Central/Liberty |
Teacher(s): |
Grade/Level: 4 |
Discipline: Dinosaurs/Fossils |
|
Year: |
Day 10 |
Day 11 |
Day 12 |
|
|
|
Content Theme Topic Area |
Culminating Activity |
|
|
||
|
Outcomes Essential Questions (Objectives) |
1. Mini-research Report on
dinosaurs utilizing outlines and student-generated questions. |
|
|
||
|
Skills NJ CCS |
2. Graph classroom as a grid
and place student’s objects that relate to them around the room. Students grid the room on paper and characterize
items and guess to whom they belong. |
|
|
||
|
Assessment |
3. Book: Digging for Clues |
|
|
||
|
Key Resources |
4. Book: Digging Up Fossils
by Avi |
|
|
||