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What Was Earth Like?
Grade: 2nd grade
Maryland VSC: 2.1.B.1.a. Provide reasons for accepting or rejecting ideas presented.
Maryland VSC: 2.1.B.1.b. Develop reasonable explanations for observations made, investigations completed, and information gained by sharing ideas and listening to others' ideas.
Maryland VSC: 2.1.C.1.d. Have opportunities to work with a team, share findings with others, and recognize that all team members should each reach their own conclusions about what the findings mean.
Maryland VSC: 2.1.B.1.a. Provide reasons for accepting or rejecting ideas presented.
Maryland VSC: 2.1.B.1.b. Develop reasonable explanations for observations made, investigations completed, and information gained by sharing ideas and listening to others' ideas.
Maryland VSC: 2.1.C.1.d. Have opportunities to work with a team, share findings with others, and recognize that all team members should each reach their own conclusions about what the findings mean.
The purpose of this lesson is for students to use prior knowledge about what the Earth was like long ago to fill out a KWL chart. Students will work with magnifying glasses to analyze and observe characteristics of different dinosaurs, and will compare the characteristics of dinosaurs to animals of today.
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