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Dinosaur Features
Learn how dinosaurs' external features enabled their survival.
Find out how the impressive physical features of dinosaurs helped them thrive. This hands-on excursion is guided by a museum expert and includes an activity booklet.
Students will experience
Be guided by a museum expert in a staff led excursion, exploring hands-on objects.
Examine and touch 3D casts of our Triceratops to explore external features such as its giant horns, huge frill and its row of teeth!
Learn about Australian dinosaurs, and how their features helped them to survive extreme conditions.
See dinosaur skeletons in Dinosaur Walk Gallery Visit and Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs.
Receive an exclusive dinosaur booklet which can be used in the galleries and back at school.
Listen to stories about scientific discoveries in the world of palaeontology.
Students will learn
How fossils can give clues to the function of different external features.
How to explain that the external features of dinosaurs helped them survive in their environment.
How to make and compare observations about dinosaurs.
To use patterns from their observations about dinosaurs to make predictions about dinosaurs' diet and behaviour.
Students will be provided
An exclusive dinosaur booklet which can be used in the galleries and back at school.
Students will need
Please bring a pencil for each student to be able to complete their booklet in the galleries.
Other key information
This excursion includes a 30 minute hands-on session in Learning Lab, 30 minutes in Dinosaur Walk and 30 minutes in Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs exhibition.
Availability
Terms 1–4, Monday to Friday
Duration: 30 minutes
Student information
Years F to 2
Minimum 15 students
Maximum 30 students
Bookings
Workshop
Presented by a museum educator
Victorian Curriculum Links
Science: Foundation to Level 2
Biological sciences
- plants and animals have observable features that can be used to group them in different ways (VC2S2U01)
- 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)
Questioning and predicting
- experiences can be used as a basis for posing questions to explore observed patterns and relationships, and to make predictions (VC2S2I01)
Communicating
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observations, findings and ideas can be shared with others by using everyday and some scientific vocabulary (VC2S2I06)
Accessibility
Please view our accessibility page for general information. A sensory map of Melbourne Museum can be found on our Visual Stories page where step-by-step visual and written access guides are available. Contact our team on 13 11 02 or email us at [email protected] to discuss how we can support your visit.
Museums Victoria Learning Access Fund
The Museums Victoria Learning Access Fund aims to enhance access to our museums (Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks and Immigration Museum), programs and events by offering free or subsidised education programs for eligible schools. Find out more about the fund.
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