I did some research into KS1 and 2 classrooms - there were lots of examples of 'role play' areas, where they would make it look like a pirate ship or police station or dinosaur lab. I could make some bits for a class to make their own dinosaur area - foliage, leaf bunting, dino skeleton imagery etc. which could be stuck up on all the walls
Children learn a lot through experience, so I think it will be very effective to have life size footprints, similar to this, to really get across the sense of scale of the dinosaurs.
I did some research on the 'Bitesize' website, seeing their methods of teaching - there were lots of clips about maths, science etc which included animals to help teach.
For example, this clip:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/zy6qxnb
It is used by teachers for literature and creative writing - getting children to engage with descriptive words, shapes, colours etc.
Or these: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/z9yycdm
Which use animals to show different food groups, animal groups, food chains - hierarchy in nature etc.
Some ideas I had for teaching other subjects with dinosaurs were:
English - using describing words for dinosaurs, writing about a made up dinosaur
Art - drawing the made up dinosaur, a dot-to-dot of dinosaurs, colouring by numbers
Maths - counting; find and count up all the dinosaurs in a busy scene, ordering the dinosaurs into height order, dividing the dinosaurs into different categories (herbivores/carnivores, mammals/reptiles, four legs/two legs)
Science - food chains, evolution (what animals today have evolved from dinosaurs), bone structures
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