Dinosaster Quiz
CultureStreet's game gives you a chance to survive the extinction of the Dinosaurs. Play the game and then test your knowledge with our quiz sheets.
Key Stage:
KS2 Science National Curriculum: Primary Science.This exercise supports the Year 6 requirements:
Pupils should be taught to recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the earth millions of years ago.
Overview:
Culture Street has produced a game-app on the theme of the Dinosaur extinction.Get the pupils to play the game. The activity will work on desktop, tablet or mobile.
Suggested Classroom Activity
Clicking on the image will take you to the Dinosaster game-app.
Get the pupils to play the game. They may need a few goes to pass level one. The activity will work on desktop, tablet or mobile.
Dinosaster quiz
Having allowed the pupils to explore the game, hopefully some pupils will have successfully reached level three. Then hand out the Dino Quiz sheets and reinforce the learning of the facts in the game with a quick group quiz.
Download dinoquizsheet.pdf
Development Activity:
Elsewhere on CultureStreet there are other teaching resource on fossil collection and scientific theories around the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Extinction of the Dinosaurs
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Learning Objectives:
Pupils will gain knowledge and understanding of types of Dinosaurs from playing the game because they have to collect facts to gain lives. There is a quiz element to test knowledge built into the game and this learning can be reinforced outside of the game by the Dino Quiz sheet.
Research, Notes and Links:
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