The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley and drawings by Brian Selznick. New York: Scholastic Press, 2001.
ISBN: 0439114942
Media: Colored Pencil
Q5/P5
Waterhouse (mid 1800s) constructs dinosaur models. He moves to the U.S. to construct more in Central Park, but they are vandalized. His models are still found in England today.
FBoggs 07/09
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins By Barbara Kerley and Illustrated by Brian Selznick. New York: Scholastic Press, 2001.
ISBN: 0-439-11494-2. Subjects: Dinosaurs, Biography Grades: 5-6
An Englishman finds fame for being the first to create lifesize representations of dinosaurs, until he battles an evil villian and his creations destroyed.
Media: Paintings
Q/P: 5/5
Lesson Plan Title: Dinosaurs
Concept / Topic To Teach: It’s okay not to be right-better to take a risk like Waterhouse Hawkins and be wrong. Even mistakes can further science!
General Goal(s):
- Develop a context for the study of dinosaurs
- Use technology to gain a basic understanding of dinosaur characteristics
- Understand how the study of dinosaurs informs scientific knowledge
- Use technology as a mode of inquiry to access information from experts
- Describe through writing accumulated knowledge of dinosaurs
- Improve content-area reading skills, such as reading for detail
Specific Objectives:
Students will apply dinosaur knowledge to writing skills.
Required Materials:
Computers for each student, the book Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins.
Anticipatory Set (Lead-In):
Read Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins.
Step-By-Step Procedures:
Following the reading, students navigate to the following website for their assignment (which the teacher has already explained verbally. Remind students that they could write biographies, poems, journal entries, etc.)
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/dinosaurs/dinowrite/index.htm
Once students have completed their dinosaurs facts, they can read what other fifth graders wrote.
Have children navigate to the website
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/themuseum/dinosphere/games/earlyreader/dino_hunt2_intro_movie.html
Students will drag the bones to the pattern to put dinosaurs together, just like Waterhouse did.
Closure (Reflect Anticipatory Set):
Point out that new dinosaurs are still be discovered today, as evidenced here:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090715-dinosaur-claws-wolverine-picture.html
Assessment Based On Objectives:
Assessment will be based upon the writing activity submitted online by students.
Adaptations (For Students With Learning Disabilities):
Visually impaired students will listen to Scholastic’s Dinosaur Bones on cd instead of playing the matching game on the computer.
Extensions (For Gifted Students):
Gifted students will be encouraged to write 6 facts about dinosaurs instead of three, or to write multiple dinosaur pieces of different genres.
Possible Connections To Other Subjects: Combined language arts and science curriculum,
BVG, 7/29/09
Kerley, B. (2001). The dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins. Illustrated by Brian Selznick. New York: Scholastic Press. ISBN: 0-439-11494-2
Waterhouse Hawkins wanted to share his love of dinosaurs. He created life-sized statues for display in England. An attempt to display in US was squashed by William “Boss” Tweed.
Media - Research based illustrations and hand lettering
Rating - 5Q/4P
Curriculum Connections - Elementary school: biography/nonfiction
MBallenger 5/3/08
Kerley, B. (2001). The dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins. Illustrated by Brian Selznick. New York: Scholastic Press. ISBN: 9780439114943
5Q/4P
In 1853, artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins embarked on a project to create large-scale models of dinosaurs based on fossil fragments. Although later fossil discoveries revealed different physical characteristics than what Hawkins had envisioned, his contributions to the field promoted public interest in dinosaurs. A Caldecott Honor book.
Selznick’s illustrations are richly rendered with paint and inspired by the models and a rare book that contained Hawkins’ sketches.
TK 4/29/08
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