National History Museum

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National History Museum

Visit the link by clicking on the title.

Visit 'The National History
Museum website'.
What is there to see at the
famous museum?

Well done if you found out that you can see dinosaurs at The National History Museum! Watch the clip below which shows 'The Grand Hall - Minerals, Dinosaurs and Birds'

Mary Anning

Name: Mary Anning

Year of Birth: 1799

Place of Birth: Lyme Regis in Dorset.

Famous For: Making many important fossil

discoveries along the Jurassic Coast.

As a child, Mary would spend hours on the beach with her father

hunting for fossils in the rocks. They collected these curiosities but

didn’t call them ‘fossils’ since they did not know what they were or how they were made.

Mary’s family were poor so they made extra money

by selling their curiosities to tourists for a penny

each!

When Mary was 12 years old, she and her brother discovered a

mysterious creature poking out from a rock. Mary chipped away at the

rock and found an ichthyosaur which is a type of extinct marine reptile dating back around 195 million years.

Mary went on to make many more remarkable discoveries and these were put on display in London. Over recent years, there has been a growing interest in Mary’s life

and work. Many people believe that her fossils are some of the most remarkable scientific discoveries of all time. Today, Mary’s ichthyosaur and other fossilised

creatures are on display at the Natural History Museum in London.

2. When was Mary born?

1. 1690
2. 1977
3. 1799
4. 1890

1. Who did Mary and her family sell their curiosities to?

1. friends
2. tourists
3. family
4. shopkeepers

3. What is Mary Anning famous for?

1. for discovering important fossils.
2. for being a scientist.
3. for selling fossils.
4. for being an explorer.

WHAT IS A FOSSIL?

Writing Task

Imagine you are Mary Anning and you travelled to a deserted jungle in the hope to discover fossils. However, you hear a rustle in the bushes... it's a T-Rex!

Write a detailed description of the events that occurred.

Use some of the vocabulary on the post-it note.

Deserted

Jungle

Fossil

Rustle

T-rex

Glistening

Teeth

Writing Task

Imagine you are Mary Anning and you travelled to a deserted jungle in the hope to discover fossils. However, you hear a rustle in the bushes... it's a T-Rex!

Write a detailed description of the events that occurred.

Use the sentence starters and vocabulary on the post-it note to help you.

Sentence Starters

After trudging through the deserted jungle...

All of a sudden, I heard...

Teeth the size of _______ glistened in the light...

"RUN!" I shouted...

Let's listen to some of our descriptions!

Which dinosaur are you?

Visit the website by clicking on the title above.

Answer the questions as truthfully as possible to reveal what dinosaur you would be! 

You have 5mins!

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Which dinosaur are you?

Plateosaurus

Lesothosaurus

Giganotosaurus

Argentinosaurus

Allosaurus

DID YOU ENJOY THIS LESSON?

😒🙁😐🙂😃

Writing Task

The Extra Challenge Group should use their imagination to write their description.

If needed, they can use the vocabulary on the post-it note.

Writing Task

The Extra Practice Group should use the sentence starters on the post-it note to help structure their writing.

Sentence Starters

After trudging through the deserted jungle...

All of a sudden, I heard...

Teeth the size of _______ glistened in the light...

"RUN!" I shouted...