Last term I did a mini unit on dinosaurs and to say my students loved it would be an understatement! Dinosaurs is such an easy theme to introduce. One the best activities that we did during this unit was growing, hatching and observing our own dinosaur eggs.
I found the eggs online (eBay) and bought about 60 for less than $20 and they came like this.
I gave each student an egg and a plastic cup of water with their name on it. We made predictions about what they thought would happen to their egg (I didn't tell them there were dinosaurs inside) and then they put them in the water.
Each day they observed their egg using their five senses. I set up the table below so that they could observe their eggs easily.
They absolutely loved filling in their observation books. This was a great writing task for some of my more reluctant writers.
When our dinosaur eggs were finally finished growing we used our dinosaur books to attempt to work out what sort of dinosaurs we had. This was probably their favourite part! I wish I had recorded the conversations that were going on while they did their research.
This was such a fun little experiment that filtered into lots of reading and writing activities. I'm so glad that I had a pack of 60 eggs, I'm ready to go again next year! Although I did send a few extras home for younger siblings.
Beck xx
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