a woman holds a baby triceratops.

National Science Week: Home of Dinosaurs!

What
Museum Staff-led
When
Tuesday 12 August 2025
10 to 10:45am
11:30am to 12:15pm
Duration

Curriculum links & Accessibility & Access Fund
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

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

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