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Do you find that sometimes your child has misbehavior problems with their tantrums? Your child is a little dinosaur who doesn’t know what to say when they’re sad, happy, angry, afraid, etc.
A good parent knows it is crucial to understand a child’s feelings to raise a happy, healthy child. Triceratops communicates through emotions and can help them with feelings of pride, anger, and confidence.
Give your child the gift that will change their life. Using Triceratops, we’ve created a fun way to help your children learn these different emotions. 
Dinosaur Learning Lesson: The Boomerang Method
The boomerang method is excellent for teaching topics that children must practice repeatedly. A teacher can use this technique when they want the students to practice a particular skill over and over to improve at it.
The idea behind the boomerang method is that you don’t want to give the students a worksheet with the answers. You want them to practice the skills independently and get them right by themselves.
The Boomerang Method allows children to learn new tasks through trial and error. After they try something, they can review their work and try again. Teachers can also use this method to introduce a concept in an easy-to-follow manner. There are four steps to the boomerang method:
Engage Phase
In the engage phase, the teacher and children discuss issues about the subject and then decide what the next steps should be. For instance, if you’re teaching kids multiplication, you might have a whole bunch of problems that are too hard for them to solve.
To foster student engagement in the problem-solving process, you might ask students, “What do you suggest we do about this problem?”
Activate 1 Phase
In the first activate phase, the children will plan a role-play while the teacher notes their mistakes and then help them understand where they went wrong. You’ll want to focus on assisting students in learning from their mistakes and not just giving them answers.
If a student says, “I got this answer, and I did it this way,” you can say, “Well done, let’s look at how you got that answer and how you solved the problem.” Then ask questions like, “What else could you have done that would have helped you get this answer?” or “What did we learn about that number?”
Study Phase
After the “activate one phase” is the study phase, where the teacher works with the children about the mistakes they made in the first activity. The teacher will then do some controlled practicing in the problem areas.
Activate 2 Phase
In this phase, the children will plan another role-play and incorporate some of the studies they have practiced in the study phase.
Their grasp of these new concepts should be firmer, so they should be able to apply them more effectively during this stage. Rather than punishing students for making mistakes, we can encourage them to learn from those mistakes.
Lesson Plan: Triceratops – Understanding & Detecting Feelings
You can build rapport and establish a positive relationship by listening to your kindergartners. These three phases are implicit in many types of face-to-face communication.
Engage Phase
Engaging students in learning is the first step in any lesson plan. Students need to have a reason to participate. In the case of teaching children about feelings, we can use a puppet—the Triceratops.
The Triceratops has been pre-assigned three feelings: happy, sad, and angry. The teacher will say things like “The Triceratops is feeling _____” or “The Triceratops is not feeling _____.” By using an animal that is not human, you’re not asking the child to compare themselves to the puppet, which may make them susceptible to emotional comparison at a young age.
The teacher asks the students to identify whether the Triceratops is feeling happy, sad, or angry by pointing at the correct emotion card. The children can spot other situations they feel like this by looking at pictures of other children and adults with similar faces and bodies as the Triceratops.
Engage Activity 1: Story Video
The key is getting your students involved in becoming aware of emotions by bringing in a fun element. Another way to make this work is by telling the story of the Triceratops. They can also use their emotions as inspiration for how the character feels.
For example, if they feel angry because their friend stole their toy, they can guess that the Triceratops might feel angry too and then show it by stomping on something or roaring. If we can’t tell others how we feel and if we don’t know how they feel, we won’t be able to get along very well.
Recognizing and understanding other people’s emotions is essential to communicating effectively. Students who cannot recognize or understand another student or teacher’s emotions may have trouble getting along with that person, making it hard for them to learn in the classroom.
Activate Phase
During this phase, the teacher will evaluate their mistakes and make notes for the study phase to discuss them with the students. When we notice how often we rely on facial expressions to communicate without words, we may begin to understand the importance of nonverbal facial expressions. Think back over a conversation you had with someone where communication was difficult.
Imagine you are looking at that person’s face and notice their face as it moves through different expressions: confusion, shock, anger, excitement, etc. Notice what happens with their eyebrows, nose, mouth, and eyes. If you imagine what it would be like to be in their place, you may be more sympathetic. Try to recall how those expressions make you feel.
Activate Activity 1: Group Activity
In this activity, start by discussing how Triceratops looks when he feels different emotions. You can use simple drawings or images of Triceratops in various poses or have a student volunteer act out the feelings for you (a fun option for younger students). Have your class divided into small groups, and assign each group an emotion for their Triceratops to feel.
Take about 5-10 minutes for them to plan what their Triceratops does when it feels that way. Then have each group share their feelings with the whole class, with the teacher modeling how to express the emotions as the students show them. This method will help students learn how to identify specific feelings from another person’s perspective.
Activate Activity 2: Dinosaur Songs for Kids
The key to successful teaching is communication. If a child is not communicating, the teacher must find a way to make them do so. One of the ways teachers activate the children is by singing songs. Children tend to love singing and music. It is also an excellent medium for tricking kids into learning and heightening their concentration while having fun with Triceratops.
Study Phase
During the study phase, the teacher will also discuss their mistakes during the previous stages. Triceratops is the perfect subject for this lesson because he has all sorts of emotions and uses nonverbal facial expressions to show them.
When he is happy, his eyes and smile are wide open. His eyes are slightly closed when he is sad, and his face is mainly tilted down. You might see him yawn and rub his eyes with his arms when he is tired. His moods change all the time, just like ours do.
Moods are a part of our everyday experiences, but we don’t always realize them because they happen so fast. We use our faces to communicate what we feel and connect as humans.
Students need to stay focused on learning how to participate in becoming aware of nonverbal facial communication used to portray feelings. To accomplish this, the teacher should create a lesson plan that includes the use of Triceratops and a transcript about dinosaurs.
Study Activity 1: Dinosaur Field Guide
The student must listen to a transcript the teacher read about dinosaurs to practice their listening skills and answer questions about what they heard. Teachers need to have good pronunciation and use rich vocabulary. This method will help the kids learn to recognize and pronounce words correctly.
Students should also understand what they’re hearing. Some children may be easily distracted by noises in the background or things happening outside. The teacher should explain why dinosaurs were around before humans. Asking questions about dinosaurs and listening to the answers can be a fun way for kids to learn about them, but the teacher should make sure that everyone understands what is being said.
Activate Phase
After the children study the roles, they will be ready to use them in another role-play. They will have a deeper understanding of their character’s persona and can play out the scene more easily and confidently. The children should also be able to incorporate some of the studies they have practiced in the study phase.
The teacher should observe the role-play and ensure each child actively participates in the storyline. If this is not happening, then children should use attention appropriately so that every child has a chance to participate.
Activate Activity 1: Dinosaur Crafts
This craft activity is great to do with your class. It is relatively simple but enjoyable and engaging for the students. Teachers can use it as an independent activity or incorporate it into a lesson about dinosaurs. It is also great for young learners because it is a hands-on activity that doesn’t need reading comprehension.
Activate Activity 2: Worksheets
As well as being educational, printable coloring sheets can be fun for children, who also enjoy drawing their pictures. Coloring sheets can help to develop fine motor skills, improve concentration, and increase creativity. Like all other activities for children, it’s essential to ensure that you’re supervising the activity. Ensure the child isn’t crayoning on the walls or eating the crayons.
Funtime at Home: Educational Games
Playing dinosaur games can be fun to spark your child’s interest in prehistoric creatures, which is why many parents turn to educational dinosaur games. They’re fun, sure, but they also make learning seem easy.
Not only will your child be learning something new about dinosaurs, but they will also be building their problem-solving skills in this fun way. That’s what you want for your little ones: a chance to explore and discover in a stress-free environment.
The Dinosaur Fun Corner Library
Exploring dinosaurs is one of the most fun and engaging activities for kids. The educational resources are easy to use and organized for children’s learning objectives in kindergarten classes. These educational activities can be a stepping stone for the engage, study, and activate phases.
1. Dinosaur Field Guide: Triceratops (Three-horned Face)
Once upon a time, many strange animals lived all over the land. One of these animals was a three-horned face named Triceratops that liked playing in the rivers and ponds.
He wanted to eat fresh plants, so he had long arms that helped him reach high up into trees to find food. He also had a powerful tail to help him get around faster and protect his back when he felt threatened by predators.
The three-horned dinosaur’s name means three-faced, and though it was a herbivore with a formidable beak, its main predator was the infamous Tyrannosaurus. It had hundreds of teeth in its jaws, slicing chunks of leaves and plants into bite-sized pieces.
Although the habitat of this dinosaur is unknown, scientists believe it roamed vast areas such as Argentina and Africa. The Triceratops, a three-horned dinosaur, is one of the first dinosaurs displayed in museums.
With the help of fossils discovered in Montana, scientists could make a replica of the three-horned face. In 1887, Professor Cope found a significant bone from this creature. He named it “ceratops.” Ten years later, Osborn renamed it Triceratops, meaning three-horned face.
The Triceratops lived 66 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period. These three-horned faces were abundant but eventually went extinct.
2. Story Video: Fun Times with Tank the Triceratops!
The story of Triceratops for the engage phase.
3. Dinosaur Songs for Kids: The Biggest Dinosaurs Song!
Songs energize the mind while students are studying.
4. Dinosaur Crafts: Make Dinosaur Footprints and Trackways
With just a few simple materials, you can assemble a set of Triceratops feet to make it look like your little one is walking around in dinosaur tracks. It’s a fun way to get kids excited about prehistoric footprints.
5. Worksheets: Nature Trackers Club Member Certificate
This activity is excellent for helping kids practice their fine motor skills, and it’s also a fun way to introduce them to the idea of coloring inside the lines.
6. Educational Games: Buddy’s A-maze-ing Adventure
The best thing about this educational game is that it combines fun gameplay with educational content so that kids can learn something new while having fun at home.
Dinosaur Final Thoughts
We all feel emotions, and that makes us human. There’s no reason young people can’t learn the basics of expressing and understanding those emotions. The best thing you can do as a parent or teacher is to listen to your student. If they’re in a lousy mood, help them talk about why and try to come up with ways in which they can improve.
Using this teaching method can help children better understand emotions, one of the most important things they will have to learn as they go to school and eventually work in the workplace. This method will also help them understand themselves and their type of person. Nonverbal expressions can clear up most misunderstandings—the soul of communication, after all, is in the eyes.
