Foundational – Remember our Team Agreements. Work with your 5th Grade buddy for these activities.

Now you have added to what you know about your dinosaur you are going to make a visual representation – a picture – of it. Keep in mind how big your dinosaur is. You won’t be able to draw your dinosaur to size, but if its a big dinosaur choose the biggest piece of paper. If its a small dinosaur choose the smallest paper.

You will need to consider how you show the type of skin it had. As we have been learning about how to do rubbings you could choose a surface that you think will look like your dinosaur’s skin and do a rubbing to ‘fill in’ your dinosaur picture. Choose carefully; you want to be able to show what you know about your dinosaur by how you represent it. Watch this video first to see how another artist makes choices and decisions when working. https://www.facebook.com/paleontology.world/home

•Make a diorama of your dinosaur in its habitat. You will have a ‘mini’ version of your dinosaur, but in the diorama, you will show its size by having something from its habitat that gives the viewer an idea of how big or small the dinosaur was. (Visual-Spatial; Naturalistic)

•Make a 3D version of your dinosaur. Use an overhead projector, or the document camera to enlarge your dinosaur, trace it on doubled paper (so you have a front and back). Then choose an appropriate surface to do ‘skin’ rubbings to fill in your dinosaur. Staple around the edges, cut out, and stuff with newspaper. (Visual-Spatial; Logical-Mathematical)

•Make a 2D picture of your dinosaur. You may do a ‘skin’ rubbing if you wish, or paint it. Paint in the habitat background. (Visual-Spatial)

•Make a collaged habitat background for your dinosaur. Add a photocopied image of your dinosaur. (Visual-Spatial)