What

Museum Staff-led

When

Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday

Duration

30 minutes

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Curriculum links & Accessibility & Access Fund

Year level

Years 3 to 4

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

In this hands-on session, explore fossils, dinosaurs and discover their amazing habitats!

Students will experience

• Examining and touching a wide variety of fossils, to explore their features.
• Hear from a museum learning expert about how our amazing Horridus the Triceratops became a fossil, the most complete Triceratops skeleton on display anywhere in the world!
• See the amazing real fossil skeleton of Triceratops and real fossil dinosaur eggs to learn about dinosaur life cycles.
• Be immersed in the habitat of Triceratops to discover the many Cretaceous food chains.

Students will learn

• Living things have characteristics that distinguish them from non-living things and things that were once living, including fossils.
• That dinosaurs had a life cycles and offspring were similar, but not identical, to their parents.
• Carnivores, herbivores and plants all had different roles and interactions within a habitat, even during the Cretaceous. Food chains can be used to represent feeding relationships at the time of Triceratops.

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.

Victorian Curriculum links

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
• plants and animals have different life cycles; offspring are similar, but not identical, to their parents
  VC2S4U02
• consumers, producers and decomposers have different roles and interactions within a habitat; food chains can be used to represent feeding relationships
  VC2S4U03

Science Inquiry

Questioning and predicting

• observations can be used as a basis for posing questions to identify patterns and relationships, and to predict the outcomes of investigations
  VC2S4I01

Communicating

• observations, findings and ideas can be communicated for an identified purpose and audience by using scientific vocabulary and digital tools as appropriate
  VC2S4I06