Collaboration with the Cincinnati Musem Center & the Behringer Crawford Museum

 Collaboration with the Cincinnati Museum Center
1301 Western Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45203

Co- Educator's Name: Amanda Bishop

Position: Home School Coordinator/ Learning Lab Instructor

Contact Information: (513) 287-7000 ext. 2378

 Amanda Bishop informed me of all of the wonderful programs that the Cincinnati Museum Center offers.

Programs Available:

1. Programs- on- Wheels:  This is a program that allows educators from the museum to visit your school and provide a more in-depth, “hands-on” approach of reinforcing a topic that you are learning about in school.  

http://www.cincymuseum.org/educators_researchers/educators/programs_on_wheels/

2. Teacher Resources:  On-line teacher guides of various topics that have been covered at the museum are available for downloading. http://www.cincymuseum.org/educators_researchers/educators/teacher_resources/

3.  Learning Labs: These programs take place inside the museum center and are available to preschool,elementary, middle, and high school students. The labs are concentrated in the subjects of Science, Social Studies, and Early Childhood Development.  These programs are designed around state standards and incorporate hands-on activities, games, and cooperative learning activities. http://www.cincymuseum.org/educators_researchers/educators/learning_labs/

4. Museums:  The Cincinnati Museum Center has various sites to visit

            - OMNIMAX Theater

            -Cincinnati History Museum

            -Duke Energy Children’s Museum

            - Museum of Natural History and Science

Instructional Plan:    Digging for Dinosaurs (grades 1-4)- Programs-on-Wheels
-provided by Amanda Bishop and the Cincinnati Museum Center

Things to do in my 1^st grade classroom before Programs-on Wheels comes to school:

-   Activate prior knowledge- Begin a KWL chart on dinosaurs

-  Read The Magic School Bus in the Time of Dinosaurs by: Joanna Cole

-   Research dinosaurs and chart their size relationships.  Include the dinosaurs that will be focused on Programs-on Wheels- Compsognathus, Allosaurus, Stegosaurus, T. Rex, and Brachiosaurus.  We will use the website www.kidsdinos.com to help us explore the world of dinosaurs

-   Look at a map/ globe and find locate places around the world where dinosaurs fossils have been discovered.

-    Talk about a paleontologist’s job:    
   

                                   

Video to be used in the Classroom: (retrieved from Teacher Tube)

Programs-on-Wheels:  Digging for Dinosaurs (60 minutes/ 30 students)

-Information provided by Amanda Bishop and the Cincinnati Museum Center

-Museum Educators will come to Arnett Elementary for Mrs. Eby’s  1^st grade class

- The educators will set up their program in the gymnasium

Objectives:

-    Students will uncover fossils on a dinosaur dig (uncover fossils in sand)

-    Students will discuss Cincinnati’s Ordovician Fossils

-     Students will learn how fossils are formed (Educators will make a cast of a fossil for the group to keep)

-    Students will learn and be able to touch fossils from the following dinosaurs:  Allosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stegosaurus, and raptors

Culminating Activity:

Students will visit the Museum of Natural History and Science at the Cincinnati Museum Center.  There they will visit the Dino Hall.

Post Assessment:

-  After all activities are completed a post assessment activity will be given to evaluate the students’ knowledge of dinosaurs.

Assessment Directions:

-  Students will be divided into groups of four

-   Groups will decide on their favorite dinosaur and draw a picture of it. They then will write 1-2 sentences about their dinosaur.

-   Students will continue in their groups and write their own definition of the word FOSSIL

KY Academic Expectations:

Reading:

1.2 Students make sense of the variety of materials they read.

1.3 Students make sense of the various materials they observe.

1.4 Students make sense of the various messages to which they listen.

Science:

2.6   Students understand how living and nonliving things change over time and the factors that influence the changes.

Writing:

1.11 Students write using appropriate forms, conventions, and styles to communicate ideas and information to different audiences for different purposes.

Technology:

1.16 Students use computers and other kinds of technology to collect, organize, and communicate information and ideas.

6.3 Students expand their understanding of existing knowledge by making connections with new knowledge, skills, and experiences.

Program of Studies:

Science:

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Students will understand that fossils found in Earth materials indicate that organisms and environmental conditions may have been different in the past.

Technology:

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Students will understand that technology is used in all content areas to support directed and independent learning.

Resources Suggested by the Cincinnati Museum Center:

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs  by: David Norman

The Visual Dictionary of Dinosaurs  an Eyewitness book

Jack Horner, Living with Dinosaurs by: Don Lessum

Collaboration with the Behringer-Crawford Museum

Berhringer-Crawford Museum

1600 Montague Road-Devou Park

Covington, KY 41011

 

Co-Educator's Name: Tiffany Best

Position- Museum Tour Guide

Contact Information: (859) 491-4003/ info@bcmusuem.org

Instructional Plan:

This plan correlates very well with the Cincinnati Museum Center “Digging for Dinosaurs” Program

The Behringer Crawford Museum offers the program: Children’s Fossil Hunt

-After exploring the world of dinosaurs and paleontology with the Cincinnati Museum Center, this program would be a wonderful way to extend your students’ learning of fossils.

-Students will be able to travel to the Behringer Crawford Museum and go on a fossil dig

-Students will have the opportunity to dig in the dirt and find fossils to learn about history through pieces found underground.

-Students will learn the difference between fossils and rocks

-This program is very inexpensive ($4.00 per student)

Post-Assessment:

-After students attend the fossil dig they will be evaluated on their knowledge of fossils versus rocks.

-Students will be divided into groups of 4 and be asked to draw a picture of a rock and a fossil and explain the difference.

KY Academic Expectations:

Reading:

1.2 Students make sense of the variety of materials they read.

1.3 Students make sense of the various materials they observe.

1.4 Students make sense of the various messages to which they listen.

Science:

2.6   Students understand how living and nonliving things change over time and the factors that influence the changes.

Writing:

1.11 Students write using appropriate forms, conventions, and styles to communicate ideas and information to different audiences for different purposes.

Program of Studies:

Science:

SC-P-BC-U-1

Students will understand that fossils found in Earth materials indicate that organisms and environmental conditions may have been different in the past.