Teacher guide
Suitable for: Years F to 6
Learning area: Science
Topic: Dinosaurs
Get ready for your visit to the Home of the Dinosaurs with this collection of activities!
This resource has been designed to support your excursion to Melbourne Museum's dinosaur and fossil exhibitions. It may be used to prepare students for a visit with discussion about what they might see and discover.
Following the visit, use this guide to incorporate the theme of dinosaurs into storytelling and creative text writing, to examine adaptations and finish the week with some palaeontology memory cards!
In this activity students will
- Prepare for their excursion to the Melbourne Museum.
- Learn about some of the key objects and dinosaurs they might see.
- Build literacy skills through reading simple texts, and creative writing.
- Learn the names of dinosaurs at the museum by playing matching games with their own palaeo card set.
Suggested questions to engage students
- Do you have a favourite dinosaur? Why is it your favourite?
- Have you been to see the dinosaurs at the Melbourne Museum?
- How will we get to the museum?
- What are you hoping to see?
What to do
Download the resource to get started:
- Home Of The Dinosaurs Teacher Guide| 3.41 MB .pdf file
This guide includes pre-visit activities that prepare students for their excursion, as well as fun and creative activities to help reflect on their visit and reinforce what they have learned.
Victorian Curriculum Links
Science: Foundation to Level 2
Biological sciences
- plants and animals have external features that perform different functions to enable their survival; in plants these features include roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruit, bulbs, trunks and branches while different features in animals enable them to move, breathe, eat and respond to their environment (VC2S2U03)
Science: Level 3 to 4
Biological sciences
- living things have characteristics that distinguish them from non-living things and things that were once living, including fossils (VC2S4U01)
Science: Level 5 to 6
Biological sciences
- organisms have evolved over time, as seen in fossils and scientific records; the structural features and behaviours of living organisms enable them to thrive in their environments (VC2S6U02)
English: Level 2
Literacy
- create short narrative, informative and persuasive texts for familiar audiences using simple text structures, topic-specific vocabulary and multimodal elements as appropriate (VC2E2LY11)
English: Level 4
Literacy
- create narrative, informative and persuasive texts, written and spoken, using relevant, linked ideas for a range of audiences and using multimodal elements as appropriate (VC2E4LY10)
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