Triceratops Alive!
Enter the world of the Triceratops and see how dinosaurs lived.
Using your very own dinosaur booklet, explore dinosaur features and discover how they survived.
Students will experience
- See amazing dinosaur skeletons in both the Dinosaur Walk and Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs exhibitions.
- Receive an exclusive dinosaur booklet which can be used in the galleries and back at school.
- Examine and touch 3D casts of Triceratops to explore amazing external features such as its giant horns, huge frill and its row of teeth!
Students will learn
- How to label body parts of dinosaurs using simple scientific language.
- How to tell what the function of different external features may have been used for by different dinosaurs.
- How to make and compare observations about dinosaurs.
- Back at school, use the booklet to create a short text on a postcard to describe their museum excursion.
Students will be provided
- An exclusive, curriculum aligned, dinosaur booklet which can be used in the galleries and back at school.
Students will need
- Please bring pencils for students to be able to complete their booklet in the galleries.
Other key information
- The length of this excursion is 60 minutes and includes 30 minutes in Dinosaur Walk and 30 minutes in Triceratops.
Availability
Terms 1–4, Monday to Friday
Duration: 60 minutes
Student information
Years F to 2
Minimum 10 students
Maximum 60 students
Bookings
Exhibition
Self-guided exhibition visit with provided activity
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)
Accessibility
Please view our accessibility page for general information. 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
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