Dinosaurs And All That Rubbish

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Dinosaurs have taken over the Earth! They’re stomping and stamping all over the place.

Young readers will love discovering why in this classic environmental tale from best-selling author / illustrator Michael Foreman.

Teaching Ideas and Resources:

English

• Rewrite the story in the form of a playscript. Could you perform it for an audience?
• Imagine that you went in a journey in a rocket. Where would you go? Could you write a story about it?
• Can you rewrite the story from the man’s point of view?
• Imagine a world that is full of rubbish and pollution. Can you think of words / phrases to describe it?

Maths

• Count the number of insects / dinosaurs that you can see in the illustrations throughout the book.

Science

• Lots of plants and trees grow throughout the story. Find out what plants need to grow healthily.
• Can you write some instructions to teach someone how to care for a plant?
• Research the topic of dinosaurs. What different types if dinosaurs were there? How were they similar / different?

Computing

• Could you retell the story in the form of a stop-motion animation? Watch this for inspiration:

Design Technology

• Design a model rocket to help the man reach the star.

Art

• Look at the use of colour in the illustrations. Which pages are dark and gloomy? Which pages are bright and colourful? Could you try to recreate some of the pictures?
• Could you draw the same scene using dark colours and then using bright colours?
• Use the line drawings to colour dinosaur pictures (see Resources below).

Geography

• Find out about different types of pollution and how they affect the environment.
• Make a list of things that people can do to help the environment.
• Make a poster to persuade people to reduce waste, reuse items and recycle materials.
• Find out what happens to waste that isn’t recycled.
• The dinosaur explains that the earth belongs to everyone. Could you use this message on a poster / banner?

History

• Make a timeline showing when dinosaurs and humans have been alive.

PSHE

• At the start of the story, the man dreams about the star. What are your hopes and dreams?
• The dinosaur says that the man should have been rules by his heart and not his head. What does this mean?

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