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 September 8th-14th: Ice Age Creature
Week of September 15th-21st: Suchomimus and Spinosaurus 
Week of September 22nd-28th: What a Hybrid? Look at IndominusRex as a Hybrid
Week of September 29th-October 5th: Ornithomimus and Oviraptorosaurs
Week of October 6th-12th: Strange Creatures  
Week of October 13th-19th: Sauropod and Sauropodomorpha
Week of October 20th-26th: Prehistoric Birds 
Week of October 27th-November 2nd: Living Fossils 3 
Week of November 3rd-9th: Allosauroidea and Ceratosauria
Week of November 10th-16th: Week of November 17th-23rd:  Microraptor, Archaeopteryx, and other Small Dinosaurs

More Creature 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.