Sounds of the Dinosaurs - Learning: National Museum Cardiff
Imagine what noises dinosaurs may have made, handle real dinosaur bones and take part in a lively, sound-based story about a forest at the time of the dinosaurs.
Workshop Breakdown:
Activity |
Curriculum Links |
Timing* |
Circle time where children get to handle dinosaur bones and other fossils. Discussion on what this fossil evidence and can teach us about dinosaurs |
Language, literature and communication. Knowledge and understanding of the world |
15 mins |
Noisy time – think about the noises different dinosaurs may have made by comparing them to similar animals alive today. Recreate these sounds |
Knowledge and understanding of the world |
20 mins |
Story: Read Albie the Adventurer – an interactive story where the children provide sound effects using musical instruments |
Creative development Language, literature and communication. |
15 mins |
*timings can be varied according to group's needs
Sounds of the Dinosaurs Follow Up Work
- make your own fossils using plaster of paris and plasticine.
- go on a fossil hunt (Llantwit Major, Penarth beach, Ogmore Vale are all great fossil finding locations).
- make a dinosaur habitat for your toy dinosaurs to live in. Look at a photograph of what we think the Jurassic Forest looked like. Explain to the children that they are going to make a dinosaur habitat for their toy dinosaurs to live in. Discuss what will be needed. Go outside to collect these materials. Help them to lay potting compost in a tray and cover it with moss. Sink small bits of bushes into the compost and place rocks and dinosaurs on top.
- Read 'Stone Girl, Bone Girl' (the story of fossil hunter Mary Anning of Lyme Regis).
- Make dinosaur masks.
