{"id":5783,"date":"2021-03-19T17:29:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T17:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/?p=5783"},"modified":"2021-03-19T17:29:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T17:29:16","slug":"how-big-is-a-dinosaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/2021\/03\/19\/how-big-is-a-dinosaur\/","title":{"rendered":"How big is a dinosaur?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of the children have been enjoying playing with the new dinosaurs. We had lots of questions so we watched some videos on Tig Tag Junior. We learned about how they became extinct.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen a big space rock made some dust it made the place go dark. Then without sunlight the plants died. Then without plants the plant-eating dinosaurs died. Then all the meat-eaters died. Then they all started to die. Extinct.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat size was a T-Rex?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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We used books to research and discovered that a Tyrannosaurus rex<\/strong><\/em> was 12 metres long. Would it fit in our playroom? Let\u2019s find out by measuring\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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“I need to measure and write it down.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Our playroom is 10 metres long – \u201cT-rex\u2019s head would be next door!\u201d <\/em><\/span>\"\"<\/a>Which dinosaur is smallest? We researched on the iPad. Compsognathus<\/strong><\/em> was 60cm long and 40cm tall.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“How tall are you?”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0Let\u2019s put them in order\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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“This one is taller.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Brachiosaurus is the biggest.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“How long is Triceratops?”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“The T-rexs are the same size.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Many of the children have been enjoying playing with the new dinosaurs. We had lots of questions so we watched some videos on Tig Tag Junior. We learned about how they became extinct.\u00a0 \u201cWhen a big space rock made some dust it made the place go dark. Then without sunlight the plants died. Then without … Continue reading How big is a dinosaur?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6510,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276,277],"tags":[189,171],"class_list":["post-5783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lit-eng","category-num-mat","tag-literacy","tag-mathematics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5798,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions\/5798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}