Dinosaur Walk Gallery Visit

What

Self-directed

When

Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday

Duration

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Curriculum links & Accessibility & Access Fund

Year level

Years K to 10

Cost

education service fee

Booking information

Bookings 13 11 02

School visit information

See how prehistoric animals lived and get up close to skeletons of dinosaurs and giant extinct megafauna.

Students will experience

• An incredible diversity of dinosaur skeletons including enormous long-necked dinosaurs, terrifying carnivores, tenacious tiny herbivores, the armoured ankylosaurs and more!
• Videos of palaeontologists explaining key dinosaur facts such as: how dinosaurs evolved from birds, why Tarbosaurus was such an efficient killer, what dinosaur eggs can tell us about their life cycles, and what we know about Megafauna.
• Giant extinct Australian megafauna.
• Amazing scientific replicas of the dinosaur teeth and skulls, which students can touch and examine to learn about the structural features that helped creatures to survive.
• Multimedia interactives that demonstrate how these animals moved, ate, and survived.

Students will learn

• Dinosaurs have observable features that can be used to group them in different ways.
• Living things, including dinosaurs, have characteristics that distinguish them from non-living things.
• Dinosaurs have evolved over time, as shown by fossils records.
• The structural features of dinosaurs enabled them to thrive in their environments.
• There are similarities and differences within and between dinosaurs.

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

Biological sciences: Levels 3 and 4

• living things have characteristics that distinguish them from non-living things and things that were once living, including fossils
  VC2S4U01

Biological sciences: Levels 5 and 6

• organisms have evolved over time, as seen in fossils and scientific records; the structural features and behaviours of living organisms enable them to thrive in their environments
  VC2S6U02

Biological sciences: Levels 7 and 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