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Flesh it out!

Topics Year 4/5

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Objectives

Science

  • Recognise that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago.

Design and Technology

  • Use research and develop design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that are fit for purpose.

Lesson Planning

Learn about how palaeoartists reconstruct dinosaurs from fossils and try it yourself!

Teaching Objectives:

  • To collate already known information about dinosaurs and compare modern animals to dinosaurs.
  • To reconstruct a dinosaur by building up clay layers on a plastic or wooden dinosaur skeleton.

Children will:

  • Draw on already known information about dinosaurs and form research questions.
  • Know how living things, and the bone structure of fossils, can influence a palaeoartist’s reconstruction.
  • Consider how palaeoartists use this information to hypothesise about what dinosaurs looked like.

You Will Need

  • Long sheets of paper (wall paper)
  • Thick pens
  • Small, plastic dinosaurs and dinosaur skeletons
  • Wooden dinosaurs for ‘reconstruction’
  • Air drying clay
  • Clay tools
  • Squares of textured cloth (hessian)
  • Paint and a brush
  • Internet or books with animals from today in them

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