1)Noah and the Flood
2)The Ice Age
3)Dinosaurs
Geoff and I have had some talks this week about history and science and about the debate of when the Ice Age really was and when dinosaurs really lived. We agreed that this history book is one view, and that some would disagree. I taught it to the kids that way....that we don't know for sure when these two things happened, but that they DID happen indeed. They were cool with that, and Luke asked 'then why do we have to learn them?' Man, we think alike. :)
Anyway, here's the breakdown:
Noah and the Flood
-took pretest and read lesson
-played the game Memory (because the animals went on the ark in pairs)
-did a worksheet of questions about Noah and the Ark (had to look up the answers in Genesis)
The Ice Age
-read lesson
-watched Ice Age, the movie in afternoon (for fun)
-had an ice cube contest...who could keep their foot on the longest?
-made greenhouses in a mason jar (this was to show the way the earth was before the flood when there had not been any rain yet. The Bible said there was like a canopy of moisture and all was green and lush, etc. Then, according to this resource, the ice age came after the flood)
Here they are gathering the 'earth' for the greenhouse (grass, rocks, dirt, leaves, etc)
-made greenhouses in a mason jar (this was to show the way the earth was before the flood when there had not been any rain yet. The Bible said there was like a canopy of moisture and all was green and lush, etc. Then, according to this resource, the ice age came after the flood)
Here they are gathering the 'earth' for the greenhouse (grass, rocks, dirt, leaves, etc)
We put 1/4 cup of water in it, sealed it up, then sat in on the deck in the sun...
It got like this...
It got like this...
**It worked out good because this week our science was about 'the icy world,' so our science topic and experiment worked right along with this theme.
Dinosaurs
-read lesson and drew pictures of Noah and the Ark including a pair of dinosaurs
-I let the kids play with our toy dinosaur figures while I read this lesson
-Used a dinosaur book we have called "The Great Dinosaur Mystery and the Bible" which answers a lot of questions.
Wrap-Up
-Made memory cards
-Post test (cumulative)
-added to our Wall of Fame
-map work, compliments of Dad who came to my rescue on Friday afternoon
The kids are having fun making the stuff for our Wall of Fame (timeline)...
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