Once again with 'create' in mind I planned my Inquiry unit on Dinosaurs with these activities in mind. Pretty much I started at the end of each learning task and worked backwards. What I found throughout this unit of learning was the retention of facts was much more than usual. I know Dinosaurs is always a fun topic to unpack but this time around, student voice told me the activities we did to show our learning were fun and made the facts stick.
We started by making our very own dinosaur eggs out of salt dough. Who knew an activity usually found in the junior classes would engage my Y7/8 learners so much!
We then hatched our eggs. This roughly translated to opening the eggs and placing them somewhere in the garden for photographing. After discovering our dinosaur fossils we used Adobe Express AI to reimagine our photos to reflect what a real ‘find’ might look like based on where our research of where similar fossils have been found in the past. These 'finds' gave each pair a focus dinosaur to do a deeper research on.
Our dinosaur eggs reimagined using Adobe Express
Kaleb shared an idea that I loved so I changed my planning. He suggested that we show some of our dinosaur research by creating a movie using AI. For this task we used https://hailuoai.video. The learning here was in the prompts.
Responding to a question in exactly 50 words. A fun way to encourage students to be succinct in their responses and provides a great opportunity for rich discussion to evolve.
Brooke and Mareta's Google Vid to showcase their research on Mary Anning
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