Key Stage: 2

Description

8 discs

A collection of programmes, clips and films on the topic of prehistoric animals, including dinosaurs, aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils. The programmes also cover adaptations, evolution and fossils.

Boxed set includes:

Teacher notes - detailed disc contents and useful weblinks.

Deadly Dinosaurs with Steve Backshall (8 episodes)

Planet Dinosaur Files - Jem Stansfield explores the extraordinary world of Planet Dinosaur.

Selected episodes:

"Deadly Dinosaurs" from Deadly Pole to Pole - Steve Backshall uncovers the prehistoric world of dinosaurs by visiting their fossilised remains at London's Natural History Museum and bringing them to life with the help of computer-generated images. He compares dinosaurs with today's deadliest, fastest and biggest animals.

"Jurassic Coast" from Jedward's Big Adventure - The duo are given 24 hours to learn about the Jurassic Coast before competing against each other, with the help of celebrity guests, to be the best tour guide by conveying correct facts about the location to a group visitors.

"Mary Anning" from True Stories -  Beginning with her childhood, this episode tells the story of the fossil hunter Mary Anning, who discovered the first Icthyosaur fossil.

March of the Dinosaurs - Stephen Fry narrates this feature-length CGI documentary. To escape the perils of the polar winter that brings freezing temperatures, starvation and four months of perpetual night, the dinosaurs of the Arctic come together in colossal herds to make their annual thousand mile march.

Selected clips

Ice Age, U, 2002 - Set during the Ice Age, a sabre-toothed tiger, a sloth and a woolly mammoth find a lost human infant, and try to return him to his tribe.

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, U, 2006 - Manny, Sid and Diego discover that the Ice Age is coming to an end and join everybody for a journey to higher ground. On the trip, they discover that Manny, in fact, is not the last of the woolly mammoths.

Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, U, 2009 - When Sid's attempt to adopt three dinosaur's eggs gets him abducted by their real mother to an underground lost world, his friends attempt to rescue him.

Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur - The story of how more than 220 dinosaur bones were found in the Argentinian desert, which were found to have come from a previously undiscovered species, which is the largest land dwelling animal known to have existed. David Attenborough visits the archaeological dig and a laboratory where the remains are being cleaned and analysed with lead scientist Dr Diego Pol and evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod, and meets animators, model-makers, palaeontologists and anatomy experts who are working to reconstruct what the 37 metre-long creature would have looked like.

The Real T-Rex with Chris Packham - Chris Packham explores a childhood fantasy - discovering the true animal behind centuries of Hollywood misrepresentation. Using knowledge from groundbreaking paleontological discoveries and utilizing the latest CGI wizardry, Chris creates the most authentic T rex ever.