A Nursery weekly lesson plan focused on Dinosaurs. Children explore dinosaur origins, habitats, diets, extinction theories, and related careers, alongside tracing letter Xx, exploring diamond and square shapes, and making a dinosaur egg craft.
What children learn
- Describe dinosaurs as animals from the distant past and recognise that they hatched from eggs.
- Compare dinosaur types, habitats, and plant- or meat-based diets.
- Discuss proposed causes of dinosaur extinction and jobs that study dinosaur evidence.
- Recognise and write Xx and identify and compare diamond and square shapes.
Key activities
- Examining dinosaur pictures and making an egg-and-dinosaur collage
- Painting and drawing different dinosaurs in their habitats
- Completing a dinosaur egg hunt
- Making a pasta collage to compare plant- and meat-eating dinosaurs
- Excavating flour-dough dinosaur fossils from a sand tray while discussing dinosaur-related jobs
You’ll need
dinosaur pictures and videos, dinosaur and egg cut-outs, paper and glue, paint and crayons, pasta and green paper, extinction images, flour dough and dinosaur toys, a sand tray, diamond and square objects, ice-cream sticks, letter Xx cards and clay
Structure: 5 days; each day: Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, Warm-up, EVS, Literacy, Numeracy