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Lesson 8: Final Lesson! The theme of our last lesson was Fossils. We started with the movement pattern we did the week before to the song called "Fossils" from Carnival of the Animals. After that we read an article from National Geographic that had to do with the most supported theories of what happened to the Dinosaurs. There are certain vocabulary words that the students are supposed to learn in their science curriculum so I did an activity to draw their attention to those words. I assigned different groups of desks to do sounds in response to specific words. For example, when a group heard the word "extinction" they were supposed to respond "Dun, dun, dun!" Another group would hear "Extraterrestrial" and say "nuh, nuh, nuh, nuh" with the twilight zone melody. If they heard "hypothesis" or "postulate" they were to say "hmmm..." like a doctor considering evidence. Words like "asteroid" or &qu