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LEGO® Club In-School Edition

Teacher’s Guide

The LEGO® Education 4C Approach to Learning

Great LEGO® Smart & LEGO® Club Expansion Activities

Dinosaurs and Mining

Pick-A-Book, & More!

WHAT’S INSIDE . . .

FALL 2012 Classic Edition

LEGO EDUCATION TEACHER’S GUIDE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The LEGO® Way of Learning .....................3

Miner Fun Facts .....3

Classroom Chat ..........................4, 6

Teacher Tidbit ........................3, 5

Dino Fun Facts ....... 4

Fossil Dig ................... 4

Mining forTreasures ................... 5

Pick-A-Book...............6

WeDo Roaring Dino 7

Sizing upDinosaurs ................... 7

Let’s StayIn Touch ...................... 8

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W e know children learn best when they’re truly engaged, and LEGO Education hands-on activities help you create an engaging, interactive learning experience.

You’ll find a variety of hands on activities in this special teacher’s guide and correlating LEGO Club In-School Magazine. We encourage you to engage your students through these activities that promote math, science, and language skills.

There are three types of activities included in this teacher’s guide.

LEGO Smart Activities use basic LEGO building knowledge and creative expression to teach students personal development skills such as team building and self-confidence.

These activities can be conducted using basic LEGO bricks; no special set is needed.

LEGO Club Extension Activities are suggestions of things you can do with your class beyond what they see in their LEGO Club In-School Magazine. These activities are

meant to extend the learning process and help students dive deeper into an activity or subject.

LEGO Education Activities are more in-depth activities using the LEGO Education 4C approach to learning. This approach is used in all LEGO Education teacher guides and consists of activities in which students Connect, Construct, Contemplate, and Continue. A more in-depth explanation of the 4C process is found on the following page.

Additionally, several classroom and teacher suggestions appear throughout the guide in our

Classroom Chat and Teacher Tidbit columns.

These snippets of information are great ways to enhance learning, introduce new topics, and encourage classroom discussion. We hope you enjoy your exclusive LEGO Education Teacher’s Guide and corresponding LEGO Club In-School Magazine.

Tell us your thoughts! We welcome any feedback on this Teacher’s Guide. Send any comments or suggestions to LEGOclub@legoeducation.us.

Enjoy!Your LEGO Education Team

Dear LEGO® Smart Teacher,

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Activities with Natural Flow

ctivity Packs from LEGO® Education are developed

by experienced educators and have a natural flow that engages and motivates students. We call it the 4C approach. It consists of four phases: Connect, Construct, Contemplate, and Continue.

ConnectIt is important to capture students’ interest in order to have a positive and motivating learning environment. LEGO Education activities always begin with an engaging challenge introduced through real-life

video clips, photos, stories, animations, and so forth, which students can relate to and find compelling.

ConstructStudents work in teams to solve an open-ended building task related to the challenge. They make their own solutions and plan, build, and test their models or software programs.

ContemplateIn this phase, students think about what they have just constructed and achieved. They discuss the project at hand and reflect on and adapt their ideas. Teachers

Acan encourage this process by asking questions.

ContinueExtension ideas are provided that present a new challenge within the same theme. Students are encouraged to change or add features to their models, thereby leading them to a new Connect phase. This allows them to enter a positive learning spiral, in which they take on increasingly difficult challenges.

The 4C ApproachTHE LEGO® WAY OF LEARNING

TEACHER TIDBITBulletin Board Ideas

Dino-Mite

Start with either a green background or a grass-printed fabric and then add dinosaur-bone letters to spell Dino-Mite. Display each student’s work with a cutout dinosaur.

Help-O-Saurus

Draw a large dinosaur shape on bulletin board paper. Then, make cracked-egg shapes with the job title on the top of the eggs and the helper’s name on the bottom of the eggs and place the eggs around the dinosaur

Mining for Good Behavior

Draw the entrance to a mine on the bulletin board paper and then add a miner pushing a wheelbarrow out of the mine. Fill the wheelbarrow with the “diamonds” or “gold” with the students’ names. When the wheelbarrow is full, the students whose names are in the wheelbarrow will earn a treat.

FUN FACTSM I N E R S

n the United States, a wide variety of natural resources are mined includ-ing coal, gold, silver, copper, sand, gravel, clay, cement, lime, boron, iron ore, mag-nesium, marble, granite, salt, helium, sulfur, and many others. • Mining has touched less

than one-quarter of one percent of all the land in the US.

• About 320,000 people work directly in mining throughout the United States, and employment in industries that support mining, including manufacturing, accounts for another 3 million jobs.

• Every American uses an average of 40,000 pounds of new minerals each year.

• A television requires 35 different minerals; 40

minerals are used to make telephones; 15 minerals are needed to make a car.

• The United States has the world’s largest reserve of coal.

• Wyoming is the nation’s top coal-producing state.

• Investment in technology, training, and equipment has made the US mining industry the safest in the world.

• The greatest gold rush in US history began when gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in California by a man named James Marshall on January 24, 1848.

• Salts are taken from the ground and purified and then end up on your kitchen table.

• All 50 states mine something.

• Twenty-four-karat gold is not pure gold – there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

• Gold will not oxidize, rust, tarnish, corrode, decay, or deteriorate.

• Copper does not corrode, rust, or damage easily.

• Archeologists have unearthed copper drainpipes from as far back as 3,500 BC, that are still in good condition.

• One of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls found in a cave in Israel is made of copper. This unique scroll does not contain religious writings but rather the clues to an undiscovered treasure of gold and silver.

• Diamond is the hardest mineral in nature.

• Diamonds can only be scratched by other diamonds.

• Not all diamonds found on our planet originated from our planet, as some have come to our planet with meteorites.

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• It is believed that dinosaurs lived on Earth until about 65 million years ago, when a mass extinction occurred.

• The brachiosaurus was an herbivore that could grow to about 85 feet long and was about as tall as two double-decker buses stacked on top of one another (30 feet tall).

• The first dinosaur to be formally named was the megalosaurus, back in 1824.

• A person who studies dinosaurs is known as a paleontologist.

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• Rather than being carnivores (meat eaters), the largest dinosaurs, such as the brachiosaurus and apatosaurus, were actually herbivores (plant eaters).

• To help fight meat eaters such as the allosaurus or spinosaurus, many plant eaters had natural weapons at their disposal. Examples of this include the spikes on the tail of the stegosaurus and the three horns attached to the front of the triceratops’s head shield.

• Pterodactyls were not dinosaurs; they were flying reptiles that lived during the age of dinosaurs, but by definition, they do not fall into the same category. The same goes for water-based reptiles such as plesiosaurs.

n pages 6-7 in the LEGO Club In-School Magazine, paleontologists go on a fossil dig. Below, you will find a variety of activities and Web sites that will allow you to create your own fossil dig.

Activity 1

Give each child a chocolate chip cookie; a couple of toothpicks; a magnifying glass; a small toothbrush or paintbrush; and small, clean tweezers. The students will really enjoy digging up fossils (chocolate chips) and extracting them to examine them under the magnifying glass!

Activity 2

Fill large buckets with sand or dirt and bury inexpensive plastic dinosaurs in it. Then, give the students the tools they will need to unearth the dinosaurs – toothpicks and spoons – and paintbrushes to dust off the specimens.

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Activity 3

Divide the class into groups of three to four students. Each group will need one sheet of poster board, glue, toothpicks, and several different shapes of pasta. Display pictures of dinosaur skeletons around the room for the students to look at. Have each group pick a dinosaur and reconstruct the skeleton from only the materials they have been given. This is a great team-building activity.

Activity 4

Give students strips of construction paper and have them each make their own paper chain. When all the chains are made, connect

them together. Then, go out into the hall or to an area long enough to demonstrate the length of specific dinosaurs. See the chart on page 7 for lengths. This is a great way for students to understand how large dinosaurs really were.

Links

This is an amazing Web site where you get to go on an interactive virtual dig!

http://paleobiology.si.edu/dinosaurs/interactives/dig/dinodig.html

This has a virtual dig but is less realistic than the link above.

http://www.tvokids.com/games/dinodig

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Links

Dinosaurs

Informationhttp://ageofdinosaurs.com

http://www.kidsdinos.com/

http://www.kidsdigdinos.com/dinosaurfacts.htm

http://www.kidsites.com/sites-edu/dinosaurs.htm

http://www.enchant-edlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/

Printableshttp://www.activityvillage.co.uk/dinosaur-flashcards.htm

http://www.abcteach.com/directory/basics/science/animals/dinosaurs/ http://kidseslgames.com/printable%20games/flash-cards/Dinosaur%20Flash-cards.pdf

Games/Virtual Fossil Digs

http://www.kidsdinos.com/dinosaur-games/index.php

http://paleobiology.si.edu/dinosaurs/interactives/dig/dinodig.html

http://www.tvokids.com/games/dinodig

Mining

Informationhttp://www.msha.gov/KIDS/KIDSHP.HTM

http://www.42explore.com/mining.htm

CLASSROOM CHAT

FUN FACTSD I N O S A U R S

inosaurs roamed the Earth long before people, but today’s scientists have uncovered many of the mysteries regarding what dinosaurs might have looked like and how they might have lived. Read the cool facts below for more information about dinosaurs.• The word dinosaur comes

from the Greek language and means “terrible lizard.”

• The allosaurus was the largest of the meat eaters; it grew to be about 28 feet long.

• A stegosaurus could grow to be 30 feet long and 14 feet tall and had a brain the size of a Ping-Pong ball.

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his activity encourages students to construct a dinosaur with the LEGO® Education 4C approach to learning. To check out a wide array of LEGO Education curriculum foryour classroom visit www. LEGOeducation.us.

Connect:Danny and Dana are digging in their backyard when they find something huge, white, and hard. Dana and Danny start digging carefully to unearth the large object. When they are finished, they realize that it is an enormous dinosaur skull!

What kind of dinosaur is it?Can you help Danny and Dana reconstruct the dinosaur?

Construct:Create a dinosaur using the

LEGO Education Animals Set, LEGO Education LEGO brick set, or other LEGO bricks. You can design your own dinosaur, or follow the build instructions included with the Animals Set.

Contemplate: After building the model, do some research about your dinosaur.1. What is the dinosaur’s real name?2. What did the dinosaur eat?3. Was it a predator?4. What was one of its identifying traits?

Continue: Use the research about your dinosaur to create a classroom presentation or story. Include your research, pictures or drawings of the dinosaur, and at least 10 facts about your dinosaur. Also, be

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iners search in the Earth for coal, precious metals, gemstones, and more. What would you like to look for if you were a miner?

Activity 1Start by putting LEGO bricks into individual containers for each group of students. Add a handful of small, multicolored beads to each container. The beads will be the “gemstones”. Each group will get one container of bricks with beads, a handout for calculating the value of the gems, and plastic spoons for digging.

Each team member will search for the precious gemstones. When all the gemstones have been

removed, the team will lay them all out and take a digital picture of them. Then, they will calculate the value of their gemstones from their day of work. Download handout at www.LEGOeducation.us/LEGOclub.

Activity 2Pick one item that is mined in the United States and learn about how it is mined. Compare with classmates. Using LEGO® bricks, create a new tool that could be used in mining this mineral.

Activity 3 Visit mining Web sites to learn about various types of mines and then construct a model out of LEGO bricks.

LEGO® Smart ActivityMINING FOR TREASURES

Linkshttp://www.msha.gov/KIDS/KIDSHP.HTM

http://www.42explore.com/mining.htm

LEGO® Education ActivityDIGGING UP BONES

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TEACHER TIDBITDino-Themed Party

Dino Delights

Dino Chicken Nuggets: Several grocery stores sell dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets.

Dino Gummies: Serve them in a bowl or create “Dirt Cups” (see below).

Dino Dig Dirt Cups: Fill individual cups with chocolate pudding and then add gummy dino-saurs, then add crumbled chocolate sandwich cook-ies to the top.

Swamp Juice: Mix lemon-lime soda with a few drops of green food coloring in a punch bowl and then add lime sherbet to float in the swamp juice.

Fossil Cookies:Use ready-made sugar cookie dough to make cookies. Before putting the cookies in the oven, use plastic (food safe) insects to press shapes into the cookies to make a fossil impression. Then, bake as directed.

Dino Decorations

Paper Dino Dolls:Use the pattern at www.LEGOeducation.us/LEGO-club to create paper dino dolls.

sure to include a picture of your dino model. Try to use descriptive adjectives when possible!

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Pick A BookDINOSAUR TALESE njoy reading and learning

about dinosaurs of all kinds. The following books are favorites suggested by our in-house curriculum team.

The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs (Magic School Bus Series) by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen

The classroom is decorated as Dinosaur Land, but Ms. Frizzle craves a more authentic experience. The Magic School Bus turns into a time machine and transports the class back millions of years to an adventure where they learn about dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs (National Geographic Readers Series) by Kathy Zoehfeld

Readers learn that our knowledge about dinosaurs comes from fossils that paleontologists have discovered. There are jokes interspersed throughout, and most are puns. This book is for those who are fascinated by these large, extinct animals. This is a Level 1 book in the National Geographic Readers series that targets beginning readers.

National Geographic Kids Ultimate Dinopedia: The Most Complete Dinosaur Reference Ever by Don Lessem and Franco Tempesta (Illustrator)

In the crowded field of dinosaur books, this is the very first to offer children ages seven to 10 – those at the height of their enthusiasm for the prehistoric giants – complete coverage of all the known dinosaurs.

The exciting result is an accessible, visually stunning book that’s packed with facts that kids can use to impress their friends and

families. Every featured dino gets a fact box that delivers important information at a glance. This book provides all the information an eight-year-old fact hound needs.

Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs by Byron Barton

A long time ago, there were big and small dinosaurs, some with horns on their heads or spikes down their backs, as well as others with long, long necks and long, long tails.

Imaginatively, and with a masterful use of color, shape, and composition, Byron Barton brings to life his unique and endearing vision of what the world might have looked like once upon a time.

Fossils Tell of Long Ago by Aliki

A fossil can be the imprint of an ancient leaf in a rock or a woolly mammoth frozen for thousands of years in the icy ground. Sometimes, it’s the skeleton of a stegosaurus that has turned to stone. A fossil is anything that has been preserved one way or another and tells about life on Earth. But you can make a fossil too – something to be discovered a million years from now – and this book will tell you how.

Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast by Jack Prelutsky and illustrated by Arnold Lobel

A collection of humorous poems about dinosaurs with rollicking rhyme schemes and full-page portraits; the dinosaurs are rejuvenated once again to amuse and amaze their devoted fans.

Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart

This book is dedicated to the

extinct dinosaurs that once roamed the land. Not only will you see pictures, but there is also background information related to the dinosaur picture you see. Some of the pictures are humorous.

Encyclopedia Prehistorica Mega-Beasts by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart

This is a book about prehistoric beings such as birds, reptiles, mammals, flying lizards, and huge bats. The description of each comes alive with the abundant use of 3-D pop-ups sprinkled throughout the book. Encyclopedia Prehistorica Mega-Beasts revolves around the now-extinct creatures that freely roamed the face of the Earth.

Dinosaurs! The Biggest Baddest Strangest Fastest by Howard Zimmerman

A dinosaur fanatic is bound to fall in love with this imaginative book. It deals with the dinosaurs that inhabited Earth millions of years ago. The book is very informative about some strange species.

Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley

This book is based on a true story. In the early 18th century, Waterhouse Hawkins deftly collected bits and pieces of information, put them together, and created a life-size statue of a dinosaur. His imagination and artistry helped him in this daunting task.

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CLASSROOM CHAT

Dinosaur Poetry

Pick a dinosaur, and find at least 10 facts about it. Then, write an acrostic poem to share the facts. The lines in an acrostic poem do not have to rhyme, but they can.

Example:

Dinos are plants.I know for sure they didn’t eat ants. Now if you must know, some also ate meat. Only the ones with the very sharp teeth!

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LEGO® Education ActivityWeDo ROARING DINO

his activity encourages students to construct and program a WeDo dinosaur model while following the LEGO® Education 4C approach to learning.

Connect:Andres and Ethan are playing with their toy dinosaurs when they start imagining what it must have been like when dinosaurs roamed Earth. They decide to create a scene with a moving dinosaur that really roars. Hmm, what could Andres and Ethan use to create this scene? Can you help them build and program a dinosaur that opens its mouth and roars when anything moves in its path?

Construct:Create a dinosaur using the LEGO Education WeDo Robotics Construction Set. This can be done by following

the build instructions included with the WeDo Set for the Hungry Alligator and then modifying it to look like a dinosaur or by free building from scratch. After building the model, program your dinosaur so that it will open its mouth and roar anytime something crosses its path.

Contemplate: 1. What sensor should you use?2. Can you make your dinosaur close its mouth after it roars?3. What else could you program this model to do?

Continue:After the dinosaur is built and programmed, write a story about the dinosaur. Don’t forget to add facts about what kind of dinosaur it is, what it eats, and where it might live. Remember that all stories must have

a beginning, a middle, and an end. The story can be presented with the WeDo software by using the sounds and display screen to show the text and bring life to the story.

Using the WeDo software, the students will be able to narrate a story with backgrounds, sounds, and actions for the models. This will be an excellent way to work collaboratively as well as in cross-curricular activities.

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LEGO® Smart ActivitySIZING UP DINOSAURS

inosaurs were not just large animals, some

where small like chickens. The following activity compares various-sized dinosaurs.

Activity

Start by giving each group a large LEGO® Building Plate and an assortment of LEGO bricks. Each group will use the building plate and bricks to show the height and length of various dinosaurs. Download student worksheets at www.LEGOeducation.us/LEGOclub. The students will be plotting the height and length of dinosaurs to see which dinosaur was the

largest. Each dinosaur will have a differently colored LEGO brick to represent it, and the building plate will act as a grid for graphing. This activity could also be done on graph paper or with

Dinosaur Length in feet

Height in feet

Stegosaurus 30 10

Allosaurus 40 15

Brachiosaurus 85 30

Tyrannosaurus Rex 40 20

Ultrasauros 100 40

Velociraptor 5 5

Supersaurus 140 55

D spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel. There is varying information on the following statistics, so the lengths and heights below are approximations.

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