Understanding the World ELG:
Past and Present
Past and Present
- Children at the expected level of development will:
- Talk about the lives of the people around them and their roles in society
- Know some similarities and differences between things in the past and now, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class
- Understand the past through settings, characters and events encountered in books read in class and storytelling.
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Who has helped me today?
How do I know that? Inventions:
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In Ancient Greek the word dinosaur translates as ‘terrible lizard’. Dinosaurs are a group of reptiles that have lived on Earth for about 245 million years. Dinosaur fossils have been found on all seven continents.
All dinosaurs became extinct about 66 million years ago. There are roughly 700 known species of extinct dinosaurs. However palaeontologists believe that there are many more new and different dinosaur species still to be discovered. Some of the areas we will cover include:
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Key Vocabulary
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