Lesson 4 - Carboniferous/Permian Periods, Swamps/Forests, Reptiles
Discuss plant life in the Carboniferous, seeds/spores, forest/swamps, the first reptiles, huge dragonflies/insects, Permian period
Main Readings
- Usborne Internet Linked Encyclopedia of World History [UILE] – pp 28-41 (Carboniferous/Permian periods)
Book Go-Alongs
- When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange, and Tetrapods Stalked the Earth: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life before Dinosaurs, by Hannah Bonner, 2004 (covers Carboniferous and Permian periods)
- Early Life – Prehistoric World Books by Dougal Dixon, 2006 (covers Paleozoic era) read pg 20-29)
- Dimetrodon (Extinct Species Collection), by Tamara Green, 1996
DVDs
- Before the Dinosaurs: Walking With Monsters (2nd episode – Carboniferous period – amphibians/reptiles, 3rd episode – Permian period)
- Magic School Bus “Gets Cold Feet” (Warm-blooded, cold-blooded)
- Magic School Bus “Gets Swamped” (Swamps/Wetlands)
Activities
- Charlie’s Playhouse Giant Timeline/Ancient Creature Cards (Carboniferous/Permian periods)
- Reptiles and Amphibians Coloring Book
- Before the Dinosaurs – coloring book
- The Naked Egg (reptile vs amphibian egg)
- Make a Dragonfly
- Butterfly Metamorphosis
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