The Age of Dinosaurs

Teacher’s tips

Level of education: Elementary School

Age: 06 to 09 years old

The use of the calendar is essential in our daily lives. It is important because it helps us organize the activities that we have to carry out throughout the days and months of the year, it guides us on what the holidays of the year will be, tests, vacations, our birthday, etc. Learning to use the calendar is essential to understand and interpret all these dates. The purpose of this game is to teach this theme in a playful and relaxed way.

Pedagogical goals

• Recognize the calendar (day, month and year) as fundamental in people's daily lives;
• Realize how many days make up a week, a month a year (study of numbers);
• Learning about how numbers work in a specific context: the calendar;
• List and identify time measurement units – day, week, month and year;
• Build the notion of counting and sequence of days of the week, highlighting the succession and duration of time;
• Establish a relationship of everyday events between today, yesterday and tomorrow;
• Understand and relate time measurement units in the social context;
• Recognize the meaning of the words: bimester, quarter, semester and leap year;
• Recognize the measurement and organization of time: days, months, years, decades and centuries;
• Understand the calendars that have been created throughout history;
• Participate in resolutions of problem situations involving days, months and years;