Torosaurus Unit grade 7

Grade 7 students viewed a DVD from the Peabody Museum in New Haven showing how both ART and SCIENCE were combined in an extraordinary project right here in Connecticut. We watched the process of making a 3 ton bronze statue of a Torosaurus (weighing in real life about 5 tons) defending its territory in the Cretaceous Era. After viewing the process and using photo resources, students were given damp clay and one class period to build their own small-scale dinosaur artifacts. The student's clay models were photographed atop a small, chisled rock that looks very much like the actual granite block under the huge bronze statue.
This is the museum miniature that was the basis for the statue

Below are our artifacts! They are numbered so we can review them anonymously. We'll have a fun contest to vote on, "best head," "most threatening posture," or "best scales." These are only a few examples of the categories devised by students to reflect the qualities they attempted to illustrate in clay. Note: some numbers are missing from the sequence due to student absences. There are 15 images:
1 2
           4 5
  6 7
           8 9
11  14
            15  16
17  18
            19

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