Lesson 1: What is a Dinosaur?
Purpose: To explore and know more about God’s creation of dinosaur.
Book(s) read:
Stephanie Turnbull’s Dinosaurs.
Other tools:
Paper
Pencil
Crayons
Pictures of dinosaurs
Learning Objectives:
- Learn general knowledge about what is a dinosaur.
- Learn the vocabulary concerning dinosaurs.
- Illustrate what is learned in this lesson about dinosaurs.
- Learn a spiritual lesson concerning God’s creation of dinosaurs.
Lessons
1. Learn general knowledge about what is a dinosaur.
Tool 1: Read Stephanie Turnbull’s Dinosaurs.
Tool 2: Questions
Point to pictures that shows a dinosaur.
What is your favorite picture from what we read?
Tool 3: Further period of interactive instructions
Dinosaurs are not alive today so we learn most of them through fossils of them.
Dinosaurs were reptiles and hence they lay eggs.
Some dinosaurs ate plants.
Some dinosaurs ate meat (other animals).
Watch Answers In Genesis Video “What about Dinosaurs?” (9 minutes long https://answersingenesis.org/kids/videos/animals/what-about-dinosaurs-purdom/).
Watch Answers In Genesis Video “What really happened Dinosaurs?” (4 minutes long https://answersingenesis.org/kids/videos/animals/what-happened-to-dinosaurs/).
2. Learn the vocabulary concerning dinosaur.
(Note: Write down the vocabularies on a white board)
- Dinosaur: “Any of a group of extinct often very large mostly land-dwelling long-tailed reptiles” (https://kids.britannica.com/kids/search/dictionary?query=dinosaur).
- Fossil: “A trace or print or the remains of a plant or animal of a past age preserved in earth or rock” (https://kids.britannica.com/kids/search/dictionary?query=Fossil&_ga=2.122239691.1755744396.1550090162-1883541149.1550090158).
- Reptile: “A reptile is an air-breathing animal that has scales instead of hair or feathers” (https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/reptile/353708).
3. Illustrate what is learned in this lesson about dinosaur.
Have four blocks to draw in.
First block label and draw a picture of dinosaur’s eggs.
Second block label and draw plant eaters (dinosaur).
Third block label and draw fossils (dinosaur).
Fourth block draw any dinosaurs.
Switch paper and see the similarities and differences in one another’s drawings.
4. Learn a spiritual lesson about God’s creation of dinosaur.
Tool 1: Bible
“Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so. 25 God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.” (Genesis 1:24-25)
In the context this is the sixth day of God’s creation.
Note that God created “the beasts of the earth after their kind” on the sixth day.
This of course would have included dinosaurs.
Tool 2: Questions
What day did God created dinosaurs?
How do dinosaurs show the awe of God’s creation?
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Absolutely my favorite topic to teach on, thank you for this brother! This is a great lesson!!!
Nice, I imagine you have taught on dinosaurs before? (I sometimes have a hard time remembering!). If so drop us a link or links on here!
I have, but I don’t think I’ve turned anything into lessons on the blog. Thank you, though, brother, for asking!
Thanks for this lesson for us old kids! I enjoyed watching the “What about Dinosaurs?”
Nice! Doing this series on dinosaurs definitely made me think of my childhood studying up on dinosaurs! What’s your step count looks like this morning/noon?
My step count is 8.3K after doing my two big walks. What’s the outlook today for your steps?
After back to back of serious and biblically heavy post I imagine this was fun to do!
It definitely was, thanks for reading the blog Honest Doggy
I do like the variety
They were certainly fearsome creatures, and I think it scares evolutionists a little when we say that they existed during the time of man. Yet, if I remember correctly, there have been found human footprints and allosaurus footprints in the same strata. I haven’t heard of any attempt to explain that and it just got ignored.
I heard of that too. Off topic, is your comics project on hold for now?
For now. I’m trying to concentrate on the game books and sister novels to the webcomic. Hopefully, I’ll pick it back up in January. Thanks for asking! 🙂
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