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♪ Sing ♪
♪ Learn ♪
♪ Create ♪
♪ And play ♪
♪ In Caitie's classroom ♪
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- Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp.
(Caitie roaring)
Hi everybody.
Come on into the classroom,
it's nice to see you.
Do you know what I'm playing with today?
Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp.
Dinosaurs.
This is a Brachiosaurus, it
has a long and tall neck.
And this is a Triceratops, it
has three horns on its head.
One, two, three.
Do you know what this is?
Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp.
A Tyrannosaurus rex.
Rex means king, and it's
called Tyrannosaurus rex
because it was one of the fiercest
land predators of all time.
(Caitie roaring)
Let's pretend to be a
dinosaur and stomp over here.
Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp.
Let's roar a big hello to all our friends.
(Caitie roaring)
Now let's sing a big hello.
Here we go.
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♪ Hello, Hello ♪
♪ What's Your Name ♪
♪ Hello, Hello ♪
♪ What's Your Name ♪
♪ My name is Caitie ♪
♪ What's your name ♪
♪ Shout it out ♪
♪ Nice to meet you ♪
♪ Let's be friends ♪
Hi, everybody.
Well, there's so many dinosaurs
in the classroom today.
Did you know there are over 700
different kinds of dinosaurs
that have been discovered and named?
That's a lot.
There's big dinosaurs,
like the Brachiosaurus.
And small dinosaurs,
like the Compsognathus.
There's a little Compsognathus now.
The Compsognathus was
the size of a chicken.
(Caitie giggling)
Let's sing a song
about different kinds
of dinosaurs together,
called "10 Little Dinosaurs."
You can count with me.
♪ One little, two little,
three little dinosaurs ♪
♪ Four little, five little,
six little dinosaurs ♪
♪ Seven little, eight little,
nine little dinosaurs ♪
♪ 10 little dinosaur babies. ♪
(Caitie gasping)
This dinosaur is a Stegosaurus.
♪ One little, two little,
three little dinosaurs ♪
♪ Four little, five little,
six little dinosaurs ♪
♪ Seven little, eight little,
nine little dinosaurs ♪
10 little dinosaur babies.
A Triceratops.
♪ One little, two little,
three little dinosaurs ♪
♪ Four little, five little,
six little dinosaurs ♪
♪ Seven little, eight little,
nine little dinosaurs ♪
10 little dinosaur babies.
There's the long neck, a Brachiosaurus.
♪ One little, two little,
three little dinosaurs ♪
♪ Four little, five little,
six little dinosaurs ♪
♪ Seven little, eight little,
nine little dinosaurs ♪
10 little dinosaur babies.
We know this one, Tyrannosaurus rex.
♪ One little, two little,
three little dinosaurs ♪
♪ Four little, five little,
six little dinosaurs ♪
♪ Seven little, eight little,
nine little dinosaurs ♪
10 little dinosaur babies.
Great counting everybody.
Give yourselves a big clap.
Let's try clapping like
a Tyrannosaurus rex.
They have little arms like this.
They do a little clap.
Nice job.
Even though dinosaurs
aren't around anymore,
scientists can still guess what
they might have looked like
by looking at their fossils.
A fossil is something leftover
from a long, long, long time ago.
We can find them in rocks
and by digging in the ground.
Paleontologists are the
scientists that study the fossils.
And they make lots of
interesting discoveries
about dinosaurs.
Here's a dinosaur fossil.
What dinosaur do you think this is?
I see sharp teeth.
It's standing on two
legs and has little arms.
Oh, a Tyrannosaurus rex.
By looking at the bones of a dinosaur,
paleontologists can guess what
they might have looked like.
So we know that Tyrannosaurus
rexes might have
looked like this, with
sharp teeth and little arms.
Let's pretend to be a
Tyrannosaurus rex all together.
Ready?
Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp.
(Caitie roaring)
Tyrannosaurus rex.
(Caitie roaring)
Good job, oh, another dinosaur.
What can we tell about this
dinosaur from this fossil?
Hmm, I see some horns on its head.
There's horns on the top of its
head and a horn on the nose.
We can guess that these bones
might belong to a dinosaur
that looks like this.
A Triceratops.
Let's pretend to be a
Triceratops all together.
We'll need some horns.
A horn over here and a horn over there.
And we can pretend that we
have a horn on our nose.
Ready?
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(Caitie roaring)
Triceratops.
Nice job everyone.
Let's take a look at one
more dinosaur fossil.
Wow, I see a long neck.
It looks really tall.
I wonder what it looked like.
Maybe like this.
The person who discovers
the new dinosaur bones
gets to name it.
This one was named Brachiosaurus.
Let's pretend to be a Brachiosaurus
with a long, tall neck.
With our long neck we can reach
the very top of the trees.
Chomp, mm, get the yummy leaves.
Chomp, mm.
(Caitie roaring)
It's fun pretending to be a dinosaur.
Let's pretend to be paleontologists.
We can dig through the
dirt for dinosaur bones.
Real paleontologists use special tools
so they can get the fossils out carefully
without breaking them.
I have some tools here.
Let's be really careful
while we dig through
and see what we can find.
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Let's see.
Oh, do you see that?
I think we found something.
Now we can use a brush
to get all the dirt away.
Look at that, wow.
Let's see if we can pick it up.
Brush some of that dirt off.
What does this look like?
A Brachiosaurus.
That big, long neck.
Great discovery paleontologists.
Let's keep looking.
Maybe over here.
Gotta be careful in
case we find something.
Oh, I think I see something.
Could this be dinosaur feet?
Let's keep brushing it away.
Yeah, I see some dinosaur legs.
Oh, it's really buried deep in there.
Let's see if we can pull it
out and take a closer look.
Come here.
Wow, what's this one?
See the little arms and the sharp teeth?
It's a Tyrannosaurus rex.
Incredible.
It'd be amazing for a paleontologist
to find a full skeleton like that.
Let's see if we can find another one.
Up here?
Oh, think I felt something.
Wow, let's take a closer look.
Oh, I think I know what this one is.
Can you tell?
It's a Triceratops.
Wow, amazing work everybody.
We made some incredible dino-discoveries.
Once paleontologists
have the dinosaur bones,
they study them.
Then they might go to a museum
so people like you and me
can see them.
Have you seen dinosaur
bones at a museum before?
Let's take a field trip to
the Canadian Nature Museum.
They have over 30 full
skeletons from the dinosaur era.
That's an incredible collection.
Let's go.
We are at the Canadian Museum
of Nature in Ottowa, Ontario.
And there's so much to see here.
But let's go find the dinosaurs.
Whoa, look at all the dinosaurs.
They're so big.
85 million years ago, these
giant dinosaurs were alive
and walking all over the planet.
And most of the bones that you see here
are real dinosaur bones
that have been found
all over the Earth.
I think that's pretty amazing.
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Oh, Triceratops.
Wow, see his horns?
It's amazing just how big dinosaurs are.
And look, a big tail, wow.
This is the head of Parasaurolophus.
It might've blown air all the way
through the top of his head.
And when it would come out,
it might sound like this--
(tool squeaking)
That's how they would talk to each other.
(tool squeaking)
Hi Parasaurolophus.
(tool squeaking)
He says hi.
Look at this one.
They have big horns on their head.
Mm, but I wonder why do
they have those holes there?
- Hi, Caitie.
- Hi.
Everyone, this is Dr. Jordan Mallon.
He's a paleontologist here at the museum.
That means he studies dinosaur bones.
So Jordan, I guess, how come
they have those holes there?
- Well, this is an animal
called Styracosaurus.
And it was a horned dinosaur.
And all horned dinosaurs
have these big frills
on the back of their
heads covered with spikes.
And that would've been pretty heavy.
So we think that these animals
had holes in their frills
in order to lighten the load.
- Oh, so their head's not
as heavy to carry around.
- That's right.
- That makes a lot of sense,
but it still looks really good.
- Absolutely, I think so.
- Yeah.
- Hey, I got something cool to show you.
Do you wanna come see it?
- Yeah, I'd love to see something cool.
- Let's check it out.
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So Caitie, I have something
else I'd like to show you.
I wanna show you the
difference here between
a plant-eating and a meat-eating dinosaur.
This is a jaw from something called
the duck-billed dinosaur.
And if I flip it around
here, you can see that
it's got hundreds of teeth
growing up through here.
- Yeah, there's so many.
- That's right, yeah.
They grew up in these rows together
and if I spin this thing around,
you can see sort of the
business-side of things.
All these teeth form a big
flat grinding surface here
for grinding up tough plants.
- So these are plant-eaters?
- Exactly, yup.
- Wow, they really do
grind those teeth down.
- They do, in fact, that's
why they have so many teeth.
Because as their teeth
grind down on one side,
there's always new ones
coming up on the other side
to replace them.
- A fresh new tooth.
- Absolutely.
Okay, what about these teeth?
- So that's the jaw of a Tyrannosaur.
I think we've all heard
of those guys before.
- Oh yeah.
- And they have big, sharp,
pointy teeth growing up here.
- So this must be a meat-eater.
- Exactly, these big, sharp, pointy teeth
are used for cutting through meat.
- It is really sharp.
- And they're also replacing,
although they don't have quite as many
as these duck-billed dinosaur.
- I guess they don't need them.
- Exactly, yep.
So behind us here, we have an
animal called Hypacrosaurus.
And my question for you
is, is this a plant-eater
or is this a meat-eater?
- Okay, well let's take a look.
I see the teeth are flat like this one.
So I'm gonna say it's a plant-eater.
- Exactly, bingo.
Hypacrosaurus was a plant-eater,
in fact it was an animal called
the duck-billed dinosaur,
just like this guy here.
So, we know from the flat
teeth that these guys
were eating plants.
- But where do you find all
of these dinosaur bones?
- Well, we have to dig
them up in the earth.
In fact, we have a really cool activity
here at the museum where
you get to do just that.
Would you like to see it?
- Yeah, I'd love to.
- Cool, let's check it out.
- Okay.
- So, check this out Caitie.
This is what we call a jacket.
A plaster jacket containing
the bones of a dinosaur.
- These is a real dinosaur bones?
- They are, it's actually the
foot of a duck-billed dinosaur
called the Hadrosaur.
And so, when we dig these things up,
we bring them back to the museum here.
And we work on them with tools like this
to finish getting them out of the ground.
Did you wanna give that a shot maybe?
- Yeah, that'd be lots of fun I think.
Okay, let's try it.
- So what you wanna do is you
wanna scrape away the rock
that's actually surrounding the bones.
- You have to be careful, I
don't wanna hurt the bone.
- Yes, it takes a long time.
Sometimes maybe weeks, or sometimes months
depending on how hard the rock is.
But eventually, you'll get
the bones out of the rock.
And you can assemble them,
you can put them together
to figure out what the
dinosaur would've looked like.
- Oh, and then we know how big it was.
- Yeah, we can study how big it was,
we can study what it ate
by its teeth, for example.
And we can build a
reconstruction of what we think
the animal weould've
looked like in real lfie.
And we actually have, in our
gallery at the other end here,
some dinosaur reconstructions
so you can see what they
looked like in life.
- Oh, like skin and
muscles and everything?
- Exactly.
- Wow.
I wanna see that.
- Check it out, yeah.
- Okay, let's go see it everyone.
Thank you so much for showing
me all this, Dr. Jordan.
- It was my pleasure, thanks for coming.
Bye guys.
- All right, let's go.
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Whoa, this is what dinosaurs
would've looked like in real life.
Remember we saw this one?
It had holes in the crest of its head.
And Jordan said it was because
it made the head lighter
so they could lift it up.
Hello.
So this is what it looks like
when the skin is covering it.
It's really pretty.
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And these must be meat-eaters.
They have sharp teeth.
Wow.
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There's so much to learn about dinosaurs.
And paleontologists,
like our friend Jordan,
are discovering new things every day.
Maybe one day you'll discover a dinosaur.
And it could be on display at a museum,
like the Canadian Museum of Nature.
Wow, there's so much to
discover at the Museum,
especially when you get to
talk to a real paleontologist,
like our friend, Jordan.
Let's see what we can discover
right here in the classroom with this.
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A dinosaur scratch card.
This is a picture I made, and with a coin
we can scratch away the paint
to see the dino-discovery underneath.
Oh, I see some dinosaur bones.
There's the tail and the feet.
And the head.
Another amazing dinosaur discovery.
(Caitie giggles)
You can make a dinosaur
scratch card like this at home.
I'll show you how.
Let's gather the things we need.
Some things we need for this craft are
packing tape, a paint brush, dish soap.
And a grown-up.
To start, we need a picture
of a dinosaur skeleton.
Then we take the packing tape
and cover the dinosaur part of the picture
with the tape.
Wanna smooth out any air bubbles,
make it as smooth as possible.
The tape is gonna help protect the paper
and make it easier to scratch
off our paint mixture.
For our paint mixture,
we have a little bit of orange paint here.
You can use any color you like.
And a little bit of regular dish soap.
you want a little more
paint than dish soap,
but it doesn't have to be exact.
Stir it together.
And we'll use this to paint
over our dinosaur bones.
Wanna cover all of the
bones as best we can.
And make a dinosaur body with the paint.
It'll take a couple of coats
so you can't see the
dinosaur bones any more.
But just wait for the first coat to dry.
And then add some more paint.
It shouldn't take too long
for the first coast to dry.
You can add some more details
to your dinosaur if you like.
Just make sure you get
all the bones covered
for our dino-discovery.
And once you've done all the layers
so you can't see anymore dinosaur bones,
and it's nice and dry, it'll
look something like this.
It'll be ready to scratch
to make our discovery.
Are you ready?
Count to three with me.
One, two, three.
(coin scratching)
Here it goes.
Oh, look at this.
It's really fun to scratch
off all this paint.
Wow, a discovery like this
would make any paleontologist proud.
You all did a great job today.
We made lots of dinosaur
discoveries together.
Let's pretend to be a
dinosaur one more time.
We'll stomp over here
to wave a big goodbye
to all our friends.
Stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp.
(Caitie roaring)
Let's wave goodbye like
a Tyrannosaurus rex.
Here we go.
♪ Bye bye ♪
♪ Good bye ♪
♪ Thanks for playing with me ♪
(Caitie roaring)
See you soon.
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- Woo.
