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
Curriculum links & Accessibility - Year level
- Years 7 to 10
- Minmum student numbers
- Minimum 10 students
- Maximum student numbers
- Maximum 60 students
- Cost
- $9 per student + education service fee
- Booking information
- Bookings 13 11 02
Discover the amazing science of evolution in Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs
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