What

Museum Staff-led

When

Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday

Year level

Years F to 2

Minmum student numbers

Minimum 15 students

Maximum student numbers

Maximum 30 students

Cost

$9 per student + education service fee

Booking information

Bookings 13 11 02

School visit information

Explore dinosaurs' amazing external features to discover the different functions to enable their survival in this staff led program.

Students will experience

• Be guided by a museum expert in a staff led program, 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 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.
• Listen to stories about scientific discoveries in the world of palaeontology.

Students will learn

• How to tell what the function of different external features may have been used for by different dinosaurs.
• 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 program 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.

Victorian Curriculum links

Biological sciences: Foundation to Level 2

• 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

Science Inquiry

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

• observations, findings and ideas can be shared with others by using everyday and some scientific vocabulary
  VC2S2I06