What

Museum Staff-led

When

Tuesday 12 August 2025
10 to 10:45am
11:30am to 12:15pm

Year level

Years F to 6

Minmum student numbers

Minimum 10 students

Maximum student numbers

Maximum 180 students

Cost

$9 per student + education service fee

Booking information

Bookings 13 11 02

School visit information

Decoding Dinosaurs – Exploring the known, unknown, and the thrilling adaptations and survival of dinosaurs!

Students will experience

• Being in the Museum Theatre, and hearing about the most extreme features of the dinosaurs at Melbourne Museum;
• Seeing incredible images of dinosaurs and exploring how we know that they once looked that way.
• Discovering the latest science taking place in the world of palaeontology at Museums Victoria;
• Finally, meeting one small and adorable Triceratops... shh! Don’t tell your students about the surprise!

Students will learn

• That dinosaurs have observable features that can be used to group them in different ways.
• That Scientists discover new things about dinosaurs all the time, and this changes the way we understand how they lived.
• how dinosaurs have evolved over time, as seen in fossils records.
• How the structural features of dinosaurs enabled them to thrive in their environments.

Students will be provided

• All students will be given a curriculum aligned dinosaur booklet, which can be used in the galleries and back at school.

Students will need

• Pens or pencils.

Victorian Curriculum links

Biological Science

Foundation to year 2

plants and animals have observable features that can be used to group them in different ways
VC2S2U01

Years 3 to 4

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

Years 5 to 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