Dinosaur
Webquest
Introduction | Task | Process | Evaluation | Conclusion |
Introduction
The Task
You will learn about one dinosaur and the time period in which it lived. You will then work together with the other members of your class to design a Dinosaur Zoo.
The Process
1. Learn about the time of the
dinosaurs.
a. Where in time did the dinosaurs
live?
Look at the picture of the staircase
below. Each step shows millions of years in the age of the earth.
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The bottom step is when the earth was very young. We live at the top of the yellow stair step. Dinosaurs lived 245 million years ago, where the green stair steps begin. The Age of Dinosaurs, the Mesozoic era, lasted for three green stair steps or for 185 million years. At the end of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago, dinosaurs suddenly died out and became extinct. |
b. We learn about dinosaurs by digging up their bones. Click below to watch a clip about dinosaur fossils. Then use your Back button on your web browser to return to your webquest.
1. Click on your dinosaur’s name in the table below.
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Answer questions about your dinosaur.
a. Print out the dinosaur question
worksheet.
b. Use your dinosaur information sheet and fill in the answers.
4. Make a stand-up model of your
dinosaur.
a. Take the second print-out of your
dinosaur information sheet.
b. Draw a stand on the bottom. See the
example below.
crosspiece
c. Make a crosspiece to help your
dinosaur stand-up.
d. Glue the dinosaur picture and the
crosspiece onto cardboard. Cut them out and put them together.
5. a.
Click here to learn about how the earth looked during the Mesozoic Era.
b. Click on the time when your dinosaur
lived to find out about the habitat for that time period.
6. a. Print out a picture for the time period when your dinosaur lived.
b. Colour the picture of the habitat
for the time period.
c. Stand your dinosaur up in front of
your picture.
7. Meet with construction crew foreman (your teacher) to discuss your group presentation and construction on the dinosaur zoo.
Evaluation
Evaluation Sheet
Conclusion
You've got another letter. Click on the dinosaur picture to read your mail!