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Dinosaurs to Drones: Investigating Change and Grit Through Paleontology [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 270 pages, kõrgus x laius: 280x210 mm, kaal: 453 g, 64 Tables, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and white; 13 Halftones, black and white; 21 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 18-Nov-2024
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1032945362
  • ISBN-13: 9781032945361
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 270 pages, kõrgus x laius: 280x210 mm, kaal: 453 g, 64 Tables, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and white; 13 Halftones, black and white; 21 Illustrations, black and white
  • Ilmumisaeg: 18-Nov-2024
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1032945362
  • ISBN-13: 9781032945361

Take your advanced students on a simulated dinosaur dig and hone the analytical skills required to think like a paleontologist!

Designed to meet the needs of gifted students in grades 5–6, this award-winning curriculum unit consists of 30 lesson plans structured around an included 26-chapter novel. Based on the author’s real-life experiences, your students will join Dorian as he travels from New York City to Montana to participate in a paleontological dig. Employing problem-based learning and Socratic seminars, these engaging lessons give students the space to choose which parts of the lessons they’d like to explore further while encouraging them to investigate change over time, from the age of the dinosaurs to the modern era.

With opportunities for student choice and targeted social-emotional learning discussions embedded throughout, this award-winning unit is a must-have for gifted educators seeking to facilitate active student engagement while integrating an exciting, problem-based learning unit into their curriculum.



Take your advanced students on a simulated dinosaur dig and hone the analytical skills required to think like a paleontologist!

1. Conceptualizing Change
2. Calculating the Consequences
3. A Trippy Train Trip
4. Digging Into Dorian
5. The Euphoria of Meeting Victoria
6. The Impact of Incorrect References
7. A Cavalcade of Character Sketches
8. Dino Plinko
9. Location Matters
10. Care and Feeding of a Dinosaur
11. Dreaming Up Drone Duties
12. From Bone to Stone
13. Dynamic Deductions
14. Deciphering a Dinosaur Dilemma
15. Fighting Fears and Considering Cycles
16. Reexamining Relationships
17. Creatures and Careers
18. Predator Competitors
19. Hand Drawing a Hadrosaur
20. Profile on Prejudice
21. Designing a Drone
22. Awesome Idioms
23. Gyroscopes and Game Plans
24. Breaker Space Breakdown
25. Searching for Serendipity
26. Delineating the Denouement
27. Victoria? Meet Sue!
28. Half On / Half Off
29. The Evolution of Dorian
30. The Grit Games

Jason S. McIntosh is a Senior Instructional Designer for Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona. Prior to this, he was a teacher and Gifted Coordinator for 27 years. He has five other STEM-related books designed for gifted or advanced students, all of which have won NAGCs Curriculum of the Year award and have been published by Routledge.