Fossil Features and Dino Diets
- What
- Museum Staff-led
- When
- Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday
- Duration
- 30 minutes
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
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
Related programs and resources
Self-directed
Years K to 10
Dinosaur Walk Gallery Visit
Walk among the skeletons of amazing animals from the past – dinosaurs, flying reptiles and megafauna.
Self-directed
Years K to 10
Gandel Gondwana Garden Gallery Visit
Explore Victoria’s ancient landscapes and see creatures that once walked this land, from dinosaurs to megafauna to the ancestors of today’s iconic Australian species.
Museum Staff-led
Years 7 to 10
Free VCES Programs
Melbourne Museum has FREE Enrichment programs for Years 7 to 10 students in Victorian government schools, funded as part of the Victorian Challenge and Enrichment Series by the Department of Education.
