Lesson 3 - Ordovician/Silurian/Devonian Periods, first land plants, invertebrates, insects, first Fish, first Amphibians
Cover the animal life in the oceans, the evolution of life on land, go in depth on amphibians.
Main Readings
Usborne Internet Linked Encyclopedia of World History [UILE] – pp 28-41 (Ordovician/Silurian/Devonian periods)
Book Go-Alongs
- When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Long Before Dinosaurs, by Hannah Bonner, 2007 (~ Silurian to Devonian periods)
- Life Finds Its Feet (Cartoon History) , by Jacqui Bailey
- Bugs Before Time: Prehistoric Insects and Their Relatives, by Cathy Camper, 2002
- Early Life – Prehistoric World Books by Dougal Dixon, 2006 (covers Paleozoic era) read pg 4-19
DVD
- Magic School Bus “Gets Planted” (Photosynthesis)
- Magic School Bus “Takes a Dive” (Coral reefs and symbiosis)
- Before the Dinosaurs: Walking With Monsters (1st episode – Cambrian-Devonian periods)
- Life in Cold Blood (amphibians and reptiles, 2 discs, 2008)
Activities
- Charlie’s Playhouse Giant Timeline/Ancient Creature Cards (Ordovician/Silurian/Devonian periods)
- Coloring pages
- Trilobite Mask
- Paper Trilobite Craft
- Trilobite Cookies
- A Squirt of a Squid
- Classifying Objects
- Animal Kingdom Classification Chart
- Clay Salamanders
- Bread Mold – plant spores experiment
Field Trip
Vocabulary
- Photosynthesis
- Amphibian
- Vertebrate
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