Dinosaur Walk Gallery Visit
- What
- Self-directed
- When
- Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday
- Duration
Curriculum links & Accessibility & Access Fund- Year level
- Years K to 10
- Cost
- education service fee
- Booking information
- Bookings 13 11 02
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