恐竜調査シリーズ: 古生物画家 2 - 北米の恐竜

This class is part of a single-day class series for dinosaur enthusiasts who love to look at dinosaur fossils for clues and draw a dinosaur as paleoartists would. 

While these were originally created especially for kids who took the Introduction classes (either the "One-Day Dinosaur Investigation & Drawing: Intro to Thinking Like a Paleoartist!" or the "Digging It: 4-Day Dinosaur Camp") and want to do more digging and more drawing, the intro classes are NOT required to enroll here. Individual Paleoartist classes can be taken in any order (they are numbered so you can keep track and not repeat the same dinosaur drawing if you enroll in more than one), and you can take just one or all four! 

In each of the Paleoartist classes, we'll have a DIFFERENT mystery dinosaur fossil from around the world to discover and draw. We'll begin by reviewing the dinosaur skeleton features that give us key information about dinosaur stance, diet, and the type of dinosaur our mystery dino of the day might be related to. After that, we'll reveal the mystery dino of the day: its fossils and where and when it was found. Each learner will create a drawing showing what they think the dinosaur looked like and the type of habitat in which it lived. As in the Intro class and all others in this series, emphasis as we draw is on learners' best efforts, and the goal is having fun. As we present our drawings to the group, we'll talk about what evidence we used to support our own theories that the mystery dinosaur walked on two legs or four, ate meat or plants, and looked like other theropods, sauropods, ornithopods, or other types of dinosaurs! Finally, we'll reveal what the dinosaur species in question is and show professional paleoartists' depictions of it, as well.

If you are interested in more Dinosaur classes, the series includes the following: 

1. "One-Day Dinosaur Investigation & Drawing: Intro to Thinking Like a Paleoartist!"OR "Digging It: 4-Day Dinosaur Camp" (both offer a good base of information about scientific questioning; the one-day class is offered more times, while the longer camp, offered more around school breaks, has more hands-on time and details).

2. These single-day classes in ANY order (each presents a new mystery species): 
~ Dinosaur Investigation Series: Paleoartist 1 - European Dino
~ Dinosaur Investigation Series: Paleoartist 2 - North American Dino 
~ Dinosaur Investigation Series: Paleoartist 3 - Asian Dino
~ Dinosaur Investigation Series: Paleoartist 4 - African Dino