Dinosaurs KS2 Topic Enrichment Pack

Step back in time with this cross-curricular pack designed to engage your Year 3/4 children! This Dinosaurs KS2 Topic Enrichment Pack offers six engaging lessons spanning Art, Science and Special People, all carefully crafted to help your class develop key skills across the curriculum.

Your class will:

• Discuss the appearance of dinosaurs, and then develop their sculpture skills by creating a 3D model of a dinosaur
• Find out how fossils are formed, identify, describe and classify dinosaurs and consider why they became extinct
• Learn about the life and achievements of the palaeontologist, Mary Anning.

Whether you’re looking to enrich your existing Dinosaurs topic or deliver a mini cross-curricular project, this pack provides everything you need—lesson plans, slides, activity sheets and resources—ready to download and teach.

Dinosaur Sculpture

This fun and informative dinosaur Art lesson for KS2 children will help your class explore what dinosaurs looked like, including their size, shape, colour and skin texture, and how we know so much about this. They will then be challenged to use this knowledge and their sculpture skills to create a 3D model of a dinosaur, or make a dinosaur skeleton.

The slideshow presentation provided for the teaching input will show children some handy hints and tips for creating their own dinosaur art masterpieces and will give them the tools they need to let their creativity roam free!

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Fossil Formation

This fossil formation KS2 Science lesson explores the fossil formation of dinosaurs. Your class will be encouraged to think about how we know what kind of animals lived in prehistoric times. They will then go on to look at how dinosaur fossils were formed, using a set of clear illustrations for the children to explore.

During their independent activities, they can either explain in their own words how fossils are formed or practise and perform a role-play between a palaeontologist and a TV reporter.

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Identifying Dinosaurs

Your class will be very busy identifying dinosaurs in this fun Science lesson as they explore and name different species of dinosaurs. They will explore some broad groups of dinosaurs, such as theropods and sauropods, before identifying dinosaurs from their descriptions.

The printable resources that come with this lesson provide a tonne of facts about different dinosaurs, and challenges your class to identify dinosaurs according to their descriptions. They can complete some dinosaur crosswords, or carry out their own research to learn more about a specific dinosaur.

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Dinosaur Classification

Now that your class can recognise and describe a variety of dinosaurs, they are challenged to move on to dinosaur classification. They will start by thinking of some different ways they could put some given dinosaurs into groups before seeing if they can spot how groups of dinosaurs have been classified.

There are lots of fun activities they can undertake to hone these skills during their independent learning after going through some examples on the slideshow presentation for the teaching input.

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The End of the Dinosaurs

The final lesson in the Science series explores some of the theories behind the extinction of the dinosaurs. Children will consider what they think the most likely theory is, as well as comparing dinosaur extinction to the extinction and endangerment of animals today.

During their independent tasks, they can either describe in their own way what they think caused the end of the dinosaurs, or they can carry out some research into a particular animal that is endangered today.

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Mary Anning

Introduce your class to one of history’s most inspiring scientists with this engaging Mary Anning KS2 lesson. Specially designed for lower Key Stage 2, this complete lesson explores the fascinating life and incredible achievements of Mary Anning, a pioneering palaeontologist from Lyme Regis.

Through a mix of storytelling, discussion and interactive activities, children will learn how Mary discovered the first complete ichthyosaur and plesiosaur fossils, how she taught herself science, and how her work helped change the way people understand prehistoric life. Pupils will also consider what life was like in Georgian Britain and reflect on the challenges Mary faced as a working-class woman in science.

This KS2 Mary Anning lesson includes a detailed lesson plan, a slideshow presentation, differentiated activity ideas and a variety of printable resources, making it easy to deliver a rich, cross-curricular learning experience that supports both history and science objectives.

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