Prehistoric Earth: Explore Dinosaurs, Sea Creatures, Ice Age Animals, & More!

If you love dinosaurs or ancient creatures, this is the club for you. In this ongoing creature class, students will learn about a specific weekly dinosaur or prehistoric animal that lived on earth. Occasionally we might look at the overall family or a group of creatures too. Each week will be a different creature out of the literal hundreds there are to discover. We will talk about its discovery, what time period it lives in, its unique characteristics, and other wild fun facts. It will be structured as a power presentation with video clips and sounds (if possible). The end of class will be a time for students to share what they've learned, facts, toys, and ask questions. The amount of discussion time at the end of class will vary depending on how many questions students asked in the presentation of our weekly animal. 

My teaching style is interactive and I like to ask students questions and encourage the students to ask me questions (though I will never force a shy student to answer if they don't wish to). 

Please be aware that Prehistoric Adventure: Explore Dinosaurs, Marine Reptiles, & Other Animals and Ancient Earth: Uncover Dinosaurs, Marine Reptiles, & Other Amazing Animals! These two classes are very similar, covering the same weekly animal. Ancient Earth is geared toward older students while Prehistoric Adventure is more focused on a younger mixed group of students. 

Students are welcome to bring snacks and their favorite toys too. If they like to draw they are free to do so and if time allows they can share their drawing with the class. 

No prior knowledge is needed, just a love for learning about ancient creatures. 

Students also can drop in and out as they want. I allow flexibility within the age range, as each learner is unique. If you think your child would be a good fit for the class but they are a little younger or older, feel free to email me to ask questions or try one session to see how it goes.  Here is a tentative schedule of upcoming creatures but it can change depending on the needs of students within all the classes. 

Week of January 12-18: Mosasaurus and other Marine Reptiles 
Week of January 19-25: Tyrannosaurus and More
Week of January 26-February 1: More Ice Age Animals
Week of February 2-8: Before Dinosaurus: Dimetrodon and Other Strange Beast
Week of February 9-15:  Who Would Win?
Week of February 16-22: Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus 
Week of February 23-March 1: Ancient Bone Crushing Dogs and Other Strange Mammals 
Week of March 2-8: Megalodon and other Prehistoric Fish
Week of March 9-15: No Class 
Week of March 16-22: Acrocanthosaurus and Other Theropod
Week of March 23-29: Living Fossils
Week of March 30th-April 5th: Pachycephalosaurus and Other Strange Dino

More Creatures Coming! 


Parental Guidance

We will be talking about large Prehistoric predators and animals in this class. We will cover topics like what they ate, how they hunted, killed, and how large they got. This could include images or short clips of animals attacking other animals with the goal to kill them, while I will not display any gruesome images, the content could possibly be scary to some children.