Douglas Henderson

I didn’t expect to like this book, because I have always been very bias in picking books which topic interests me. However, I did really enjoy it. I realized a lot of people could like this book because the information is made fascinating by word choice. For example, I liked how compared dinosaurs to ostriches, to familiarize it with students. They also use words like enormous to get students thinking. I also really like the illustrations. They are bright, colorful, and large, drawing students into it. The cover also draws people in with it’s illustrations because it is big, bright, and bold. The title is also big, and in Orange instead of a boring black or white like we would usually see. I think that’s the thing that I really like about this book; it brings people to it, which is hard to do with informational books. Lastly, I just like how they have descriptions on the bottom of each picture, describing what the picture represents. This whole book is filled with information and is a great book for students to read. I would definitely suggest this book to students wanting to know more about dinosaurs or asteroids.… (más)

For a 1st or 2nd grade class, the students could measure in the hallway or outside, the length of a 50 foot dinosaur using string and a tape measure. The students would then measure their own height and compare it to that of the 50 foot dinosaur. They would then subtract their height from the dinosaur's to get the difference, divide the dinosaurs height by their height to get the quotient, and multiply their height by the quotient to get the height of the dinosaur. Students could then illustrate and write about the size of the dinosaur they measured, and how it compares to their own height. For possibly fourth or fifth grade, students could reserach other theories of how stories could have went extinct. The class, as a whole, could create a chart as reasons why dinosaurs dissapeared. Then, the students could write and illustrate their reasons for why the dinosaurs became extinct.… (más)