Fossil Features and Dino Diets
Explore fossils and discover dinosaur habitats.
Get hands-on with fossils, and learn about dinosaur life cycles, habitats and food chains!
Students will experience
- Examining and touching a wide variety of fossils, to explore their features.
- Hear from a museum learning expert about how our amazing Horridus the Triceratops became a fossil, the most complete Triceratops skeleton on display anywhere in the world!
- See the amazing real fossil skeleton of Triceratops and real fossil dinosaur eggs to learn about dinosaur life cycles.
- Be immersed in the habitat of Triceratops to discover the many Cretaceous food chains.
Students will learn
- Living things have characteristics that distinguish them from non-living things and things that were once living, including fossils.
- That dinosaurs had a life cycles and offspring were similar, but not identical, to their parents.
- Carnivores, herbivores and plants all had different roles and interactions within a habitat, even during the Cretaceous. Food chains can be used to represent feeding relationships at the time of Triceratops.
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.
Related links
- Home Of The Dinosaurs Teacher Guide| 4.84 MB .pdf file
Availability
Terms 1–4, Monday to Friday
Duration: 30 minutes
Student information
Years 3 to 4
Minimum 15 students
Maximum 30 students
Bookings
Workshop
Presented by a museum educator
Victorian Curriculum Links
Science Levels 3 and 4
Biological sciences
- living things have characteristics that distinguish them from non-living things and things that were once living, including fossils (VC2S4U01)
- plants and animals have different life cycles; offspring are similar, but not identical, to their parents (VC2S4U02)
- consumers, producers and decomposers have different roles and interactions within a habitat; food chains can be used to represent feeding relationships (VC2S4U03)
Questioning and predicting
- observations can be used as a basis for posing questions to identify patterns and relationships, and to predict the outcomes of investigations (VC2S4I01)
Communicating
- observations, findings and ideas can be communicated for an identified purpose and audience by using scientific vocabulary and digital tools as appropriate (VC2S4I06)
Accessibility
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