Classification and Dinosaur Food Webs

What

Self-directed

When

Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday

Duration

60 minutes total
30 minutes in Dinosaur Walk
30 minutes in Triceratops

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Curriculum links & Accessibility & Access Fund

Year level

Years 7 to 10

Minmum student numbers

Minimum 10 students

Maximum student numbers

Maximum 60 students

Cost

$7 per student + education service fee

Booking information

Bookings 13 11 02

School visit information

Explore dinosaur skeletons to learn more about classification, and the ancient food webs in Triceratops habitat.

Students will experience

• Classify a diversity of dinosaur skeletons – from long neck sauropods, armoured herbivores and a range of carnivorous therapods while visit Dinosaur Walk exhibition.
• Explore the habitat and ecosystem of Triceratops in an immersive experience based on the fossil record in the same geological time.
• Examine the REAL fossil bones of Triceratops to analyse the skeleton of a world-famous dinosaur.
• Analyse the evolution of dinosaurs by looking at family trees and real evidence.

Students will learn

• About how classification helps us to understand the relationships between different dinosaurs;
• Dinosaurs, like animals today, evolved into a diversity of animals with a diverse of characteristics to survive in their environment.
• That life on Earth has always been reliant on other species for survival in their habitat.
• Abiotic factors, such as a catastrophic meteorite impact, affects life on Earth, causing the removal of species.

Students will be provided

• A 12-page curriculum aligned booklet, for use in the galleries and back at school.

Students will need

• To bring a pencil along to complete the work in the booklet while at the museum.

Victorian Curriculum links

Years 7 to 8

• there are similarities and differences within and between groups of organisms living on Earth; the development and use of classification tools, including dichotomous keys, help order and organise human understanding of the diversity of life
  VC2S8U01
• that matter and energy flow through ecosystems and can be represented using models, including food webs and food pyramids; populations will be affected by changing biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem including habitat loss, climate change, seasonal migration and introduction or removal of species
  VC2S8U04

Years 9 to 10

• the theory of evolution by natural selection includes the processes of variation, isolation and adaptation and is supported by evidence including the fossil record, biogeography and comparative embryology; the theory explains past and present biodiversity and demonstrates how all organisms have some degree of relatedness to each other
  VC2S10U05