1. Mad Science Preschool Workshop @ CIS: Dinosaurs
Date: 16 Jul 2012
Level: Preschool, aged 3-5
Lesson Plan Teaching Strategies: Science Process Skills Used
• Dino Story : Steggy • Role-Play • Observing
Stegosaurus • Comparing
• Demonstration
• Dino Life Cycle • Classifying
• Lets Look At Fossils • In Class Field Trip
Vocabulary • Applying
• T-Rex Tooth
• Camptosaurus Jaw Dinos: • Using Apparatus &
• Dino Dinners Equipment
• Stegosaurus
• Tar Pit • Reflecting
• Allosaurus
• Tooth Cast – Make &
Take • Triceratops Student Outcome
• T-rex • Relating to In & Of the
• Dino Dig
Real World
• Dino Drawing Carnivore
Herbivore
Omnivore
Fossil
Paleontologist
Mad Science Scoreboard @ CIS
4Designed Level Appropriate Lesson Plan
•Inquiry based
•Varied teaching strategies used to make learning fun
•Hands-on activities in groups & as individuals
•Applications of science process skills
4Brought Pre-Historic Science to Life
4Delivered by A Dynamic & Quality Mad Scientist
4 Engaged preschoolers with bite-sized & interesting
activities Mad Scientist – Kinetic Keng
2. Dino Story
Science Concept Learning 1: Dino Life Cycle - from egg to young dinosaur, adulthood then finally death
Science Concept Learning 2 : How fossils are formed
Teaching Strategy: Role Play
Role Play 2: Rock like an egg
“ R a w r ”
Role Play 1: Roar Fiercely
3. Let’s Look At Fossils
Science Concept Learning: Comparing T-Rex Tooth with Camptosarus Teeth
Science
Concept
Learning 1:
Carnivore or
T-Rex Tooth
Science Concept
Learning 2:
Herbivore or
Camptosaurus
teeth
Science Concept Learning 3: Classifying Dinosaurs
into Herbivore & Carnivore based on Teeth
Type, Plates/No Plates, Tail Shape
Tar Pit
Dino Food
Science Concept
Learning 4: Linking
Dino Dinners to shape
& size of teeth
Science Concept Learning 5: Human beings are
omnivores. We have both sharp & flat typed of teeth
Student Outcome: Relating to In & Of the Real World
4. Tooth Cast - Make & Take
Mold for the T-Rex tooth cast
5. Dino Dig
Science Concept Learning 1: Fossils are fragile & are buried underground.
They are not always found in a complete set.
Science Concept
Learning 2: Dino
Detectives have
to gently dig up
the fossils & piece
them together
7. Engaged & Active Learners
Mad Science class is a lot of fun!
Happy children
A celebratory dance
For more information about Mad Science programs for Preschool & Elementary / Primary Levels,
kindly contact:
Karen Khoo
9760 5285
quarksofkhoo@gmail.com
www.madscience.org/sg
