Pre-history Year

Kindergarten is a great time for learning about dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals! I wanted to start with the Big Bang and go through early man - basically everything before Ancients.

Resource List: Books 
(I bought the first four on this list, the others were obtained through the library)

- Usborne Encyclopedia of World History

- The Story of Everything: From the Big Bang Until Now in 11Pop-up Spreads by Neal Layton
- Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart

- Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart
- Life Story by Virginia Lee Burton

- When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange, and TetrapodsStalked the Earth: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Before Dinosaurs by Hannah Bonner

- When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began toSwarm: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Long Before Dinosaurs by Hannah Bonner

- When Dinos Dawned, Mammals Got Munched, and Pterosaurs TookFlight: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life in the Triassic by Hannah Bonner

- Evolution by Joanna Cole

- The Human Body: How We Evolved by Joanna Cole

- Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story by Lisa Westberg Peter

- Bone by Bone: Comparing Animal Skeletons by Sara Levine

- Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution by Steve Jenkins

 Resource List: Videos

(all available through Netflix)

Walking With Monsters series

Walking With Dinosaurs series

Walking With Beasts series

Walking With Cavemen series

The Planned Sequence for 36 Weekly Lessons 

1. The Story of Everything: From the Big Bang Until Now in 11 Pop-up Spreads by Neal Layton
2. Usborne 14-17; Dissect owl pellets and discuss how it relates to how scientists deduce information about the past
3. Life Story by Virginia Lee Burton
4. Usborne 18-19; Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story by Lisa Westberg Peters
5. Usborne 20-23; Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution by Steve Jenkins
6. Usborne 24-29; Walking With Monsters: Water Dwellers
7. When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Long Before Dinosaurs by Hannah Bonner
8. Usborne 30-33; Compare megalodon and great white shark, including comparing their sizes using a sidewalk and chalk. (Activity from Intellego K-2 unit on Evolution)
9. When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange, and Tetrapods Stalked the Earth: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Before Dinosaurs by Hannah Bonner
10. Usborne 34-37; Walking With Monsters: Reptile's Beginnings
11. Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart
12. Usborne 38-41; Walking With Monsters: Clash of Titans
13. When Dinos Dawned, Mammals Got Munched, and Pterosaurs Took Flight: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life in the Triassic by Hannah Bonner
14. Usborne 42-43; Walking With Dinosaurs: New Blood
15. Usborne 44-47; Walking With Dinosaurs: Time of the Titans
16. Usborne 48-51; Walking With Dinosaurs: Cruel Sea
17. Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart
18. Field trip to zoo, focus on reptiles and birds, discuss evolution
19. Usborne 52-55; Walking With Dinosaurs: Giants of the Skies
20. Usborne 56-57; Walking With Dinosaurs: Spirits of the Ice Forest
21. Usborne 58-59; Walking With Dinosaurs: Death of a Dynasty
22. Bone by Bone: Comparing Animal Skeletons by Sara Levine
23. Field trip to museum to see fossils, including dinosaur bones
24. Usborne 60-65; Walking With Beasts: New Dawn
25. Usborne 66-69; Walking With Beasts: Whale Killer
26. Usborne 70-73; Walking With Beasts: Land of Giants
27. Usborne 74-77; Walking With Beasts: Next of Kin
28. Field trip to Wild Cat Sanctuary, discussion of evolution
29. Usborne 78-81; Walking With Cavemen: First Ancestors
30. The Human Body: How We Evolved by Joanna Cole
31. Usborne 82-85; Walking With Cavemen: Blood Brothers
32. Field trip to the zoo, focus on primates, discuss evolution
33. Usborne 86-89; Walking With Beasts: Sabre Tooth
34. Usborne 90-93; Walking With Cavemen: Savage Family
35. Usborne 94-97; Walking With Cavemen: The Survivors
36. Usborne 98-101; Walking With Beasts: Mammoth Journey