What is inside a dinosaur?

Today before school Thomas and Alicya were looking at a dinosaur book. There was a picture in the book of a Tyrannosaurus stripped of skin and muscle revealing a skeleton and the internal organs.

Thomas: Look I can see inside the dinosaur.

Alicya: Look he has worms in him.

Thomas: We could make all the bits in the sculpture.

Alicya: It is a sculpture.

The bell rang so I said lets look at it with the class. I talked to the class about the discussion so far and this is what followed.

Miss B: What is inside the dinosaur?

Jewels: The worms aren’t actually worms, they’re the testiness.

Keira: It’s what they eat.

Alicya: Muscle and bones

Keira: the heart and all he eats.

Sean: Veins they’re the things that help your blood running.

Jewels: The food slides through the intestines to the tummy and the heart pumps the blood.

Quinn: If it doesn’t pump you can’t breathe and then you might die. We have little green ones in our wrist.

Sean: I have purple ones.

Molly: I have purple and blue ones.

Kyla: I have pink ones.

Noah: I know how he dies when a triceratops comes to get his babies the horn goes through the heart.

Sean: Only sometimes if it gets in the right place.

Jasmine: The blood it goes around the body.

Shawn: It makes you breathe

Molly: If you didn't have blood you’d be all pale and white. The red makes it darker.

Alicya: It make you stay alive.

Ashtyn: It makes your bones stronger.

Quinn: If you didn’t have blood and you cut yourself it would be white and your skin would be dry.

 

Noah: the blood keeps the body running and if it was all dry inside and you would just stand like a statue.

Jasmine: Bones make you move.

Emelia: The bones keep him and his heart going.

Sean: He has chemicals to keep his blood going.

Keira: He has bones on his back, if he didn’t, he’d be all floppy.

Alicya: He has a chest, it’s the thing that is beside your heart and it pumps when you’re running and you can feel it.

Noah:  He has bad chemicals. Maybe he has acid on his teeth to help kill animals.

Molly: Kidneys, I don’t know what they do.

Ashton: the worm things might lead to the bottom.

Molly: they probably wont.

Keira: I think when a dinosaur eats all the meat the dinosaur body keeps all the good stuff and gets rid of the bad stuff.

Alicya: How would it get rid of the bad stuff?

Keira: It would probably do poos and wees.

Ashtyn: Maybe the blood is protecting its bones and when it gets hit it goes into the blood but not the bones.

Matt: When the dinosaur loses the blood, his body makes more.

Ashtyn: I think we have more layers of skin than a dinosaur cause we have 7 layers and they have about 3.

Matt: It makes more blood to make it heal.

Ashtyn: I think they have harder skin than us.

Noah: T-Rex doesn’t make blood. When Triceratops got him the T-Rex’s blood goes into the Triceratops horns and it makes the horns stronger.

Shaun: When the Triceratops is running the T-Rex will get stabbed and the blood will come out and then the T-rex will pretend to move and take the blood back out of the Triceratops horns.

Ashtyn: Maybe some of the blood keeps going around instead of coming out.