Poem Book Extension Activity

Your Name: Breanna Holden

Book Title: Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First
Paleontologist

Book Author: Helen Frost

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Date: March 2012

1. Pre-K/CCSD K-2nd Grade Core Standard (5 points)

Pre-K Nature of Science
N.PK1.a Observe their world
N.PK.2 Share Ideas with others
N.PK.3 Use tools safely to observe and explore different objects/environments.
N.PK.4 Use patterns to predict or sort items.

Pre-K Life Science

L.PK.3 Identify humans, animals, and plants.
L.PK.4 Use the five senses to explore and investigate the natural world.

Pre-K Language and Early Literacy

2.PK.3 Identify pictures to aid in comprehension.
3.PK.9 Listen to age-appropriate material that makes connections to self and the world
around them.
4.PK.5b Respond to or ask question about and event, text, or picture.

2. Objectives (What will children expect to learn?) (5 points)

Children will learn about the world around them by exploring nature. After reading the
book children will have more acknowledgment about insects in the book and will be
able to find and try to identify insects outside.

Children will be able to make connections from the book to their natural world and
experiences with insects.

Children will ask questions and relate to book during outside insect search.

3. Materials and Equipment needed: (5 points)

Insects caught by teacher in advance that the children will help release back outside.
 Children’s magnifying glass.

Outside area that has opportunity to see nature.

4. Teaching (What will you do?) (5 points)

Read the poetry book and emphasize the lyrical rhyme in the book.
Discuss words, insects, and plants in illustrations.

After the book discuss any questions children have about the insects in the book.
Ask questions about insects or animals they may have seen in nature. Where they live,
what they looked like.

Bring out the insects caught and allow them to look through the magnifying glass at
them. Talk about what they see. What they think they are.

Take insects outside and release them.

Send children out to investigate and explore for more insects and plants outside.

5. Closure: (2 points)
Life science is a big highlight through this poetic book. Its light rhyme doesn’t make it
predictable but allows a lyrical flow while reading.
Children will get to experience science like research through this activity and practice
making hypothesis about what they find and relate it to their natural world.

6. List 3 additional books in this genre to extend the learning: (3 points)

Going on a Nature Hunt By Steve Metzger

On Beyond Bugs: All About Insects (Cat in the Hats Learning Library)
By Tish Rabe

Bugs A to Z By Caroline Lawton