Triceratops Adapts
- What
- Self-directed
- When
- Terms 1 to 4, Monday to Friday
- Duration
- 60 minutes total
30 minutes in Dinosaur Walk
30 minutes in Triceratops
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
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
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.
