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Educational classes in Dinolandia |
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NURSERY AND PRIMARY SCHOOL
(younger children)
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Topic |
Content and issues |
| 1. |
Ancient life |
How did our planet change? |
| 2. |
The secrets of fossils |
What is a fossil and how is it formed? |
| 3. |
The depts of the sea |
What animals lived in the mesozoic sea? |
| 4. |
The plants in the past |
The comparison of contemporary and ancient plants |
| 5. |
School chalk |
What can school chalk remember? |
| 6. |
Not only the large ones |
Miscellaneous about dinosaurs. |
| 7. |
Measure and weight |
The term ˊpaleonthologistˊ, work and the most frequently found organisms. |
Teaching aids:
- specimens of fossils;
- a board ̶ stratigraphic chart;
- a paleonthologistˊs chest.
Educational and upbringing goals pursued in the course of the classes:
- a student is made acquainted with the term ˊfossilˊ,
- a student learns about the changes affecting our planet,
- a student learns to name and describe the organisms which became extinct and indicate those which have survived to our times.
PRIMARY SCHOOL
(older children)
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Topic
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Content and issues |
| 1. |
Ancient life |
How did our planet change? |
| 2. |
A fossil |
What is it? |
| 3. |
Paleonthology |
Paleonthologists – who are they and what tool they use in their work? |
| 4. |
The plants in the past |
What plants existed in the past (carbon). |
| 5. |
Sea animals |
Fish, trilobites, ammonites etc. |
| 6. |
Dinosaurs |
The introduction |
| 7. |
Paleonthological miscellaneous |
Related to the work of a paleonthologist. |
Teaching aids and methods of work
- a stratigraphic chart;
- fossils ̶ specimens;
- a paleonthologistˊs tool chest;
- observation and group work.
Educational and upbringing goals pursued in the course of the classes:
- a student is made acquainted with the term ˊpaleonthologyˊ;
- a student is made acquainted with the term ˊfossilˊ;
- a student learns about the changes affecting our planet and their timescale;
- a student learns about what a paleonthologistˊs work consists in;
- a student is able to name fossil organisms which are most frequently found;
- classes develop the ability to discover cause and effect relationships, explain phenomena, draw conclusions and justify hypotheses.
MIDDLE SCHOOL
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Topic
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Content and issues
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Geological timescale |
Geological timescale the notion of a stratigraphic chart and its division. |
| 2. |
A fossil |
Is it and what mechanisms rule its formation? |
| 3. |
Paleonthology |
A paleonthologistˊs work |
| 4. |
Macro and microfossils |
The notion of examples of macro and microfossils. |
| 5. |
The Paleozoic |
the Devonian animals, vegetation as an element of the changing environment – the Carboniferous. |
| 6. |
The Mesozoic |
The Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous animals and plants. |
| 7. |
The Cretacoeous-Tertiary extinction event |
The evolution of changeability of organisms prior to and after the Cretaceous-Tertiary extiction event. |
| 8. |
Miscellaneous |
The miscellaneous related to a paleonthologistˊs work. |
| 9. |
Polish paleonthology |
Polish paleonthological expeditions. |
Teaching aids and methods of work
- a stratigraphic chart;
- fossils ̶ specimens;
- a paleonthologistˊs tool chest;
- observation and group work.
Educational and upbringing goals pursued in the course of the classes:
- a student is made acquainted with the term ˊpaleonthologyˊ;
- a student knows the notion of geological timescale
- a student is made acquainted with the term ˊfossilˊ and the mechanisms of their formation;
- a student becomes acquainted with the animals and plants typical of particular geological periods;
- a student learns about what a paleonthologistˊs work consists in;
- a student is able to name the fossil organisms which are most frequently found.
- the classes form the ability to discover cause and effect relationships, explaining phenomena, drawing conclusions and justifying hipotheses.
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