Download Creative Curriculum Dinosaurs

English
Art and Design
Image Poetry
Milestone Indicator
Journalistic Writing
AD1.1 Respond to ideas and starting points.
Adventure Stories
Activities
AD1.2 Explore ideas and collect visual
information.
Develop ideas through sketching dinosaur
habitats.
AD1.3 Explore different methods and
materials as ideas develop.
Dinosaur silhouette pictures
AD2.5 Use thick and thin brushes.
Carroll diagrams
Dinosaur height charts
Year 3 Autumn 1
AD2.7 Add white to colours to make tints
and black to colours to make tones.
Dinosaur feet
Dinosaur eggs
AD2.11 Mix materials to create texture.
AD2.17 Mimic print from the environment
(e.g wallpapers)
Dinosaur word problems
Geography
Milestone Indicator
Science
Rocks & Fossils
Activities
Where have different
dinosaurs been found?
What was the earth like
when the dinosaurs were
alive?
Computing
Milestone Indicator
Activities
C 3.1 Use some of the advanced features
of applications and devices in
order to communicate ideas,
work or messages professionally.
C 4.1 Devise and construct
databases using applications
designed for this purpose
in areas across the curriculum.
Jurassic Park Theme
Create and write own dinosaur stories
Video story telling
Draw storyboards
Produce info sheet on
publisher about dinosaurs
(use to assist in making
own fact files)
Forbidden jungle—Dinosaur fact finding. Including paintings (Art gallery)
and dinosaur fact files
Topic display - Dinosaur writing.
Stoke City
Activities
Art straw dinosaurs.
Create 3-D models of dinosaurs using NETS.
Collage dinosaurs.
SMSC
Discussions—My
family
The importance
of new life.
DT2.4 Demonstrate a range of
joining techniques (such as
gluing, hinges or combining
materials to strengthen)
Milestone Indicator
Milestone Indicator
Activities
Personal
Milestone Indicator
Activities
Mu2.6 Create short musical patterns.
Use ICT—2 simple music
Create sounds / tunes to
represent different dinosaurs.
Create sounds to accompany the story ‘Dinosaur
Stomp’.
Activities
H1.1 Observe or handle evidence to ask
questions and find answers to questions
about the past.
Describe the world during the
dinosaur era.
H1.2 Ask questions such as: What was it
like for people? What happened? How long
ago?
Find out how the dinosaur period
may have ended.
H1.3 Use artefacts, pictures, stories, online
sources and databases to find out about
the past.
Timeline—massive outdoor one.
H1.5 Suggest causes and consequences of
some of the main events and changes in
history.
H3.1 Place events and artefacts in order
on a time line.
Music
Display ideas
DT2.3 Demonstrate a range of
cutting and shaping techniques
(such as tearing, cutting,
folding and curling.)
PE
History
RE
Drama
Role Play Areas
Research
‘How is new life welcomed into the world?’
In-role as dinosaurs and
dinosaur explorers
Creating and performing
in a dinosaur game show
‘Guess the Dino’
Milestone Indicator
DT2.2 Measure and mark out
to the nearest centimetre.
AD 2.8 Create colour wheels.
Footprints—printing
Design and Technology
DT2.1 Cut materials safely
using tools provided.
Dinosaurs
Paper Mache dinosaurs
AD2.3 Show pattern and texture by
adding dots and lines.
Mathematics
Dinosaur art—using pastels, charcoal,
paint, computers
Creative Curriculum
H3.2 Label time lines with words or
phrases such as:: past, present, older and
newer.
Events leading to the time of the
dinosaurs.
Development
New Beginnings
Languages
Know about the main different
dinosaur ages. To be aware that
there are others.
Animals
(Triassic , Jurassic, Cretaceous)
H4.1 Use words and phrases such as: a
long time ago, recently, when my parents / carers were children, years, decades
and centuries to describe the passing of
time.
H4.2 Show an understanding of the
concept of nation and a nation’s history.
Educational Visits
Manchester Museum
Notes