Prehistoric animals

Prehistoric animals moon shoot game

Science moon shoot game is a game for one player when self-testing skills or many players of in a classroom. Each player enters his/her name on their rocket and before launch. Answer questions as the rockets rise. If you answer a question incorrectly, you lose a chance and your rocket is hit by a meteorite. The winner is the student who answers the most questions.

Learn about prehistoric animals ( dinosaurs, mammoth etc) , names, diets, reproduction, era of existence etc. This game is for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade children.

Prehistoric Animals

Long before humans roamed the earth, the planet was full of strange and wonderful creatures. Some of them were the biggest animals that have ever lived, and others were much bigger versions of what we already have, centipedes that were three metres long, or a dragonfly half a metre long. Prehistoric animals lived millions of years ago when the world was unrecognizable to how it is today, the continents we have today didn’t exist, the world was one big piece of land where prehistoric animals would roam, and then it started to break up and drift across the oceans to form what we have now. In this lesson we will look at some of the best prehistoric animals.

T-Rex – The famous dinosaur that everyone knows, and not just from Toy Story. T-Rex lived 70-65 million years ago and used to walk upright on its two strong legs, but had short, weaker arms. T-Rex had a very strong bite, similar to that of alligators.

Megalodon – Megalodons were giant sharks that could reach 30 metres long! They had sharp 7-inch teeth and a powerful bite; they could chomp through the skull of a prehistoric whale as easy as us biting into a grape.

Archaeopteryx – This was the first prehistoric animal found that had both traits of dinosaurs and traits of birds. It had a face like a dinosaur but feathers like a bird, but we’re not yet sure if it could properly fly or just glide. It helped us figure out that birds descended from small dinosaurs.

Sea Scorpions – some species of Sea Scorpions were 2.5-3 metres long and would crawl about the sea floor picking up its prey with it’s pincers or hiding on the sea floor and waiting for something to swim over it and sting them with it’s tail.

Woolly Mammoth – Woolly Mammoths looked a bit like elephants only much bigger and with fur. They went extinct around 9,000 years ago, but after the last ice age. It is thought that one of the main reasons they went extinct is that they were hunted by prehistoric cave men for food.

Smilodon – This was a type of sabre-toothed cat, and the last one that would have existed at the same time as humans. Like Woolly Mammoths they survived until the end of the ice age.

Dire Wolves – Dire Wolves were similar to Grey Wolves but much bigger, heavier and with larger teeth.

Neanderthals – Neanderthals were very much like modern humans. They were shorter, but much more robust because their bones were a lot stronger. They, like us, had language and families and art, however they lacked imagination and only lived in small groups. It’s thought that we lived alongside them for thousands of years once modern humans migrated into Europe, which is where Neanderthals lived. Unfortunately they became extinct, probably because we were killing the food they eat and eating it ourselves, meaning they often went hungry.

Brachiosaurus – Brachiosaurus’ were one of the largest dinosaurs to ever live and weighed around 30 tons. They were vegetarians, eating tall plants and would have to eat plants all day long because they were so big! They had long necks and long tails and a large body.

Terror Bird – Terror Birds were birds that couldn’t fly, but roamed the land ‘terrorising’ its prey. They could be 3 metres tall, and would eat mammals, their favourite mammals to eat were horses, but they would also eat small mammals too.

Learn about Prehistoric Animals - Teaching Tips For Instructors

  1. Use Drawings of the animals so that the kids can see what they looked like.
  2. For the animals that are particularly large, find a scaled drawing showing the size of the animal compared to a human, these exist all over the internet.
  3. Relate the animals to animals they already know or have seen in popular culture, for example Woolly Mammoths and Sabre Tooth Tigers both appear in the popular children’s movie “Ice Age”. For Neanderthals you can compare them to cave men, Sea Scorpions and Megalodon are a little easier because they look very similar to their descendants today only much bigger.
  4. Engage the children by encouraging to pick their favourite one, describe why, and draw a picture of it.
  5. If you have the time, watching an episode of “Walking with Dinosaurs”/”Walking with Monsters”/”Walking with Beasts” can help the children know what life was like for these animals. There are episodes on Sea Scorpions, T-Rex, Brachiosaurs, Megalodon and Neanderthals, which are easy to find on YouTube.

Monocots and dicots

Monocots and dicots fun game

Learn about Monocots and dicots in this Pirate Science game – This is an exciting game with multiple choice science problems. It can be played by one or two students. When a question pops up, choice the correct answer and keep doing the same. If you answer incorrectly, your ship is shot by the pirate. The player with the most damaged ship ends up sinking and being eaten up by the sharks. Science is fun !

In this game, children will learn about monocots and dicots, characteristics, seeds, propagation etc. This game is for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade children.

Monocots and Dicots.

Nature is everywhere and we can see it everyday, from trees that produce oxygen for us to breath, to flowers that not only produce nectar for bees to make honey, but also look and smell lovely! There are many different types of flowers with different colours, shapes, sizes and smells, but there are two main types of flowers that we will learn about today.

The first types of flowers are monocots, and here are some of the ways you can identify a monocot flower:

-          Monocots are flowers that multiple of three petals. What this means is that monocot flowers will have either 3, 6, 9, 12 or more, going up in multiples of three, petals.

-          Also, if you look at the leaves of a monocot flower, you will see that the veins are not arranged in circles, but they are scattered, and on the leaves you will see that the veins are arranged in parallel lines.

-          The roots of a monocot are adventitious, this means that the roots are not organised and do not have a formation as to how they grow.

-          The pollen of monocots also has one pore.

-          Examples of monocot: rice, wheat, bamboo, banana, onion, garlic, lilies, daffodils, orchids, bluebells, and tulips.

The second types of flowers are dicots, and they are slightly different from monocots and we will know look at some of the ways you can identify a dicot:

-          Monocots are flowers that multiple of four or five petals. What this means is that monocot flowers will have either 4, 8, 12, 16 or more, going up in multiples of four, or 5, 10, 15 petals going up in multiples of five.

-          The leaves on dicots are often of a netlike structure, and are not organised in parallel lines like monocots.

-          The roots of dicots are generally straight and thick, meaning that they grow straight downwards rather than in a non-organised structure like monocots.

-          Magnolias, nutmeg, cinnamon, avocado, black pepper, water lily.

Tips on teaching this topic.

-          Perhaps bring in different types of plants and ask the children if they can use the information they have learned in order to identify whether these plants are monocots or dicots, this will help them engage with the material and learn it properly as well as keeping their interest.

-          Try to use examples of plants that they will be familiar with so as to keep their interest and help them understand the material better.

-          Perhaps ask them to design their own plant, either a dicot or monocot, as this will be fun for them as well as digesting and using the material they have learnt, again keeping them engaged with the material.

-          With the petal numbers, it is a great way to help their mathematics skills as they can learn to count in multiples of three, four or five, so this topic is a great way to combine their science and maths knowledge.

Living things

Characteristic of living things

Science catapult game – Fun game for one or two students to take turns playing. Each time a question pops up, select the correct answer and get a chance to shoot at your adversary with the help of your army. If you keep getting the answers right, you keep shooting at your adversary until his /her castle breaks down. A dragon also joins on your side to spit fire on the loser and destroy his/her castle completely. Be a champion and conquer enemy territory.

Learn about the characteristics of living things - reproduction, growth, senses, non-living things etc. This game is suitable for children in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grades.

Human body

Learn about human body parts

Human body parts Science Rally game – Classroom rally game for one or more students. Select your team with color and play Science classroom rally game. Random questions will pop up during rally race and if you answer it correctly then you will get boost and your opponent gets some hurdles like stone or mud on the way so they slow down. Beat your opponent and have fun with Science rally game.

Learn about human body parts - eyes, mouth, teeth, muscles, legs, feet, hands, fingers, human blood circulation, human anatomy etc. This game is suitable for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade children.

Teaching kids about body parts

Our bodies are amazing things! First of all, we all have them and use them in everything that we do. We use them to run, to eat, to sleep, to draw and to think. They are with us all of the time! We have many different body parts, and each of these body parts all have a different job. Because we spend all of our time with our bodies, it is very interesting to learn about all of the different body parts and what they help us to do.

Today we are going to look at three body parts, which are all on our head or face!

Eyes !

The first body parts that we are going to explore are our eyes! We all have two eyes, they are in our head, and they come in all kinds of different sizes and colours. Even though we all have different looking eyes, they all have the same job: The sense that our eyes control, is seeing!

Our eyes are made up of different parts and now we will talk a little bit about them.

The little dark circle in the centre of each of your eyes lets light in. It is called a pupil. Once the light goes in, it hits a part inside at the back of your eye that is very sensitive to light. This part is called the retina. When light touches the retina, it makes an upside-down picture of whatever you are looking at. A large nerve called the optic nerve carries the image to your brain where it gets turned around so that you see it the right way instead of upside-down

Another thing that our eyes do is cry. When we are very sad or happy our eyes release a special type of water that we call tears, nobody likes to cry though! Our eyes also make tears that clean our eyes and keep our eyes safe.

Eyes also help when we sleep, we can close our eyes so that we cannot see anything, again protecting these precious things that help us enjoy so much of the world.

Ears !

Ears are another body part that we all have two of and they are located on the sides of our head. Again, every body has different shaped ears, which is very interesting. Our ears control our hearing sense!

Our ears are also made up of different parts; lets take a little look at these different parts and how they help us hear.

Eardrum: this is the part of the ear that catches tiny vibrations that we call sound, and changes them so that we can hear them properly.

Cochlea: This picks up lots of different sounds and organizes them into energy that we can understand better.

Auditory nerve: this takes the sounds that we have organized and sends them to our brain.

Nose !

Everybody has one nose and you can see our noses right in the middle of our face! Our nose helps us smell, it lets us know when something smells really nice and when something smells really bad! They are also very important in helping us to breathe.

Lets have a look at the different parts of our nose and how these help us smell:

The nose has two holes called nostrils. A wall called the septum separates the nostrils and the nasal passages. Deep inside your nose, close to your skull, your septum is made of very thin pieces of bone.

Closer to the tip of your nose, the septum is made of cartilage which is flexible material that's firmer than skin or muscle. It's not as hard as bone, and if you push on the tip of your nose, you can feel how wiggly it is.

Behind your nose, in the middle of your face, is a space called the nasal cavity, which connects with the back of the throat. The nasal cavity is separated from the inside of your mouth by the palate (roof of your mouth).

Tips on teaching children

Young children get easily bored. Therefore it is important to bring in lots of props and toys to demonstrate the things you are trying to teach them This will avoid them getting bored, keep them engaged as they get excited about the new things they have learnt and ultimately, they will learn quicker and retain the information for longer. Also, try to ask them lots of questions. This will boost their self-confidence as they get things right as well as keeping them engaged in the material and learn quicker. Also try to keep things simple and do not overload them with information, children pick up new knowledge very quickly but if you put too much in one lesson, they will get bored and their self-confidence will drop.

Butterfly

Fun game about insects

Learn about insects e.g. Butterfly in this game - Science moon shoot game is a game for one player when self-testing skills or many players of in a classroom. Each player enters his/her name on their rocket and before launch. Answer questions as the rockets rise. If you answer a question incorrectly, you lose a chance and your rocket is hit by a meteorite. The winner is the student who answers the most questions.

Learn about kingdom of insects in this fun game - life cycle, complete and incomplete metamorphosis etc.

Birds

Game about Aves - Birds

Practice with this game about birds (aves group) - Science catapult game – Fun game for one or two students to take turns playing. Each time a question pops up, select the correct answer and get a chance to shoot at your adversary with the help of your army. If you keep getting the answers right, you keep shooting at your adversary until his /her castle breaks down. A dragon also joins on your side to spit fire on the loser and destroy his/her castle completely. Be a champion and conquer enemy territory.

Learn about animals - aves (birds) in this game about birds and their characteristics: anatomy of birds, reproduction, birds eggs, feathers, adaptation to flight etc. This activity is for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade children.

Animals – dogs

Animals e.g. dogs pirate science game

Learn about animals e.g. dogs in this Pirate Science game – This is an exciting game with multiple choice science problems. It can be played by one or two students. When a question pops up, choice the correct answer and keep doing the same. If you answer incorrectly, your ship is shot by the pirate. The player with the most damaged ship ends up sinking and being eaten up by the sharks. Science is fun !

In this game children will learn about animals precisely a dog and some of their characteristics e.g. lifespan, reproductions, diets, habitats etc. This game is for children in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade children.

Animals – cow

Cow - animal kingdom game

Learn about cows in this Science Rally game on animals – Classroom rally game for one or more students. Select your team with color and play Science classroom rally game. Random questions will pop up during rally race and if you answer it correctly then you will get boost and your opponent gets some hurdles like stone or mud on the way so they slows down. Beat your opponent and have fun with Science rally game.

In this game children will learn about animals like cows : herbivores, diets, use to man, lifespan, habitats, species etc. this game is suitable for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade children.

Amphibians

Ampibians pirate game on life science

Pirate Science game about amphibians e.g. toads, frogs, alligators etc – This is an exciting game with multiple choice science problems. It can be played by one or two students. When a question pops up, choice the correct answer and keep doing the same. If you answer incorrectly, your ship is shot by the pirate. The player with the most damaged ship ends up sinking and being eaten up by the sharks. Science is fun !

In this game, children will learn about amphibians - toads, frogs, salamanders etc, cold blooded animals, reproduction, life cycle, habitats, diet etc. This game is for kids in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th graders.