What

Self-directed

When

Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday

Duration

60 minutes total
30 minutes in Dinosaur Walk
30 minutes in Triceratops

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Curriculum links & Accessibility & Access Fund

Year level

Years 5 to 6

Minmum student numbers

Minimum 10 students

Maximum student numbers

Maximum 60 students

Cost

$7 per student + education service fee

Booking information

Bookings 13 11 02

School visit information

Explore structural features, adaptations, of dinosaurs that enable them to thrive in their environments.

Students will experience

• Walk through an immersive world of the Triceratops, exploring the various species that lived at the same time.
• Through hands-on objects in the galleries, discover how Triceratops amazing structural features enabled it to thrive in its environment.
• Visit the Dinosaur Walk and Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs exhibition and see real dinosaur fossils!

Students will learn

• Dinosaurs, like all organisms, have structural features which are adaptations, as seen in fossils.
• Dinosaurs’ structural features and behaviours enable them to thrive as they have adapted to their environment.
• That dinosaur habitats can be described by their physical conditions; changing the physical conditions of a habitat, such as a major asteroid impact, will affect their growth and survival of organisms.

Students will be provided

• An exclusive and curriculum aligned dinosaur booklet which can be used in the galleries and back at school.

Students will need

• Please bring pencils for students to be able to complete their booklet in the galleries.

Victorian Curriculum links

Biological sciences

• habitats can be described by their physical conditions; changing the physical conditions of a habitat, including by human activity, may affect the growth and survival of organisms
  VC2S6U01
• 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