Do you think he saurus?

In the coming weeks in ELP Social Studies and ELP Science we will be looking at the life of dinosaurs. This project will dovetail with the work going on for One Scotland that involves reading  Arthur Conan Doyle’s much loved book, The Lost World.

In Social Studies our angle will be an historical one – when did the dinosaurs live, how did they live and why did they disappear? We will consider different species of dinosaur and spend our time being detectives finding out as much as we can about them from the internet, books, models, fossils, experts and our own prior knowledge (of which there is an awful lot!).

In Science we will concentrate on the idea of survival and adaption. We will look at dinosaurs and compare them with other creatures who may still be around today. The crocodile will feature heavily in our investigations, as will various fossils and other information about how different species have become “extinct”.

We will take the opportunity to explore the ideas put forward by Charles Darwin in the year that sees a celebration of the 150th anniversary of his Origin of the Species. (Perhaps as much an excuse to look at pictures and information about the many wonderful species that inhabit the Galapagos Islands! See below)