Lesson Four - Quagga
A quagga is basically a zebra with brown and white stripes that come to it's belly and then it is totally brown. I wanted my son to learn the differences and similarities of these two animals. I put on a puppet show, simply by cutting out a picture of a zebra and quagga and pasting them to a Popsicle stick. During the puppet show, I said all I wanted him to learn:
Both ate plants
Both have four legs
Both live/lived in Africa
The zebra had black stripes
The quagga had brown stripes
The quagga's stripes ended on his belly
After the puppet show, I handed him the puppets and played a simple quiz game. I asked him "Which animal was a herbivore" and he held up both pictures, ect. Then I gave him a blank picture of a horse and asked him to either color the horse as a quagga or a zebra.
Lesson Three - Dodo Bird
Objectives: Hope he learns that the Dodo was a flightless bird that could be 3'3'' and 22 lbs. The Dodo ate fruit, nuts and seeds. They lived about 300 years ago. People hunted the dodo into extinction. The Dodo used to eat seeds from a tree and when the bird pooped them out, the seeds grew. When the dodo became extinct so did the trees.
Method: I printed a picture of a dodo bird and read through the objectves.
Dodo Bird Memory - Print out 2 pictures of a Dodo, 2 pictures of a tree, 2 pictures of seeds, 2 pictures of fruit then play memory.
Dodo Bird Madlibs: Even if your child doesn't know what an adjective is, I encourage you to try madlibs. They catch on fast!
Dodo Bird Madlibs (I just made it up, feel free to add or subtract from it)
Once upon a time there was a dodo bird named _____(silly name)______ who lived on the island of ____(place)____. The dodo was a beautiful bird with ____(color)____ feathers and ___(adjective)____ wings. All day long the dodo bird would ___(verb)____ and ___(verb)____. When he got hungry, the dodo bird would open his ___(part of the body)___ and eat a ___(adjectives)____ ___(food)____ and poop them out! The seeds would grow into a brand new ___ (noun)___ and the dodo bird was ___(emotion)___!
Lesson Two: Saber-Tooth Cat / Tiger
Objectives: I hope my son learned that they were carnivores, they could be one foot long, they ate elephants, rhinos and horses, and they lived in grasslands, shrubby areas and pine forests.
Method: I put on a puppet show using my dino puppets and his stuffed tiger. The animals said all the objectives I hoped he would learn.
Make a puppet: We used a plain lunch bag and some markers, then made our own saber tooth tiger puppets.
Min. to Win It - Game One: Transfer pictures of saber tooth tiger prey from one side of the room to another without using your hands.
Game two : Put pictures of prey as well as other foods the tiger wouldn't eat on a table and he has to blow off all the pictures that the tiger would eat. Then do it again and blow off all the ones the tiger would not eat.
Explorer Journal - write about the adventure!
Lesson One: T-Rex and Triceratops.
I did have a few objectives I hope my son would learn:
-A T-rex eats mean and a tricerotops eats plans
-A t-rex walks on 2 legs and a tricerotops walks on 4
Pretty simple objectives. Here is an outline of the lesson:
1. Puppet Show. A friend gave me these awesome dino puppets and I put on a little show that talked about what dinos eat and how they walk. If you don't have actual puppets, no worries! Use lunch bags or just draw some pics and put them on Popsicle sticks.
2. Lunch with Dinos. To teach my son what they eat, we sorted play food onto two plates, one for the t-rex and one for the tricerotop. Then, because my son loves Min. to Win It, we set up a game where all the food was put in a big pile and he had to run to the pile, take out one piece of food, then run to the correct dino plate. He did this for each food as fast as he could.
3. Pin the horn on the Tricerotop. Just printed a pic of a tricerotops, cut out some horns, and played!
4. Dino wrestling. I have a feeling this was the highlight of my son's whole day. We each took turns being a t-rex then a triceratops. If he was the t-rex, he had to hold his arms close to his body and stay on 2 feet. As the triceratops, he got to get on all fours and use his head. Then we wrestled. He loved it :)
We also have an explorer journal that I wanted him to write in when we were done. With the Around the World Lessons, he had a blast, but didn't retain anything. I'm hoping that by writing or drawing of our adventure, he'll remember a few things.
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