1st Edition

Dinosaurs to Drones Investigating Change and Grit Through Paleontology

By Jason S. McIntosh Copyright 2025
276 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Prufrock Press

276 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Prufrock Press

276 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Prufrock Press

Take your advanced students on a simulated dinosaur dig and hone the analytical skills required to think like a paleontologist! Designed to meet the needs of gifted students in grades 5–6, this award-winning curriculum unit consists of 30 lesson plans structured around an included 26-chapter novel. Based on the author’s real-life experiences, your students will join Dorian as he travels from... Read more

1. Conceptualizing Change  2. Calculating the Consequences  3. A Trippy Train Trip  4. Digging Into Dorian  5. The Euphoria of Meeting Victoria  6. The Impact of Incorrect References  7. A Cavalcade of Character Sketches  8. Dino Plinko  9. Location Matters  10. Care and Feeding of a Dinosaur  11. Dreaming Up Drone Duties  12. From Bone to Stone  13. Dynamic Deductions  14. Deciphering a Dinosaur Dilemma  15. Fighting Fears and Considering Cycles  16. Reexamining Relationships  17. Creatures and Careers  18. Predator Competitors  19. Hand Drawing a Hadrosaur  20. Profile on Prejudice  21. Designing a Drone  22. Awesome Idioms  23. Gyroscopes and Game Plans  24. Breaker Space Breakdown  25. Searching for Serendipity  26. Delineating the Denouement  27. Victoria? Meet Sue!  28. Half On / Half Off  29. The Evolution of Dorian  30. The Grit Games

Biography

Jason S. McIntosh is a Senior Instructional Designer for Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona. Prior to this, he was a teacher and Gifted Coordinator for 27 years. He has five other STEM-related books designed for gifted or advanced students, all of which have won NAGC’s Curriculum of the Year award and have been published by Routledge.