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

Year level

Years F to 2

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

Using your very own dinosaur booklet, explore dinosaur features and discover how they survived.

Students will experience

• See amazing dinosaur skeletons in both the Dinosaur Walk and Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs exhibitions
• Receive an exclusive dinosaur booklet which can be used in the galleries and back at school.
• Examine and touch 3D casts of Triceratops to explore amazing external features such as its giant horns, huge frill and its row of teeth!

Students will learn

• How to label body parts of dinosaurs using simple scientific language.
• How to tell what the function of different external features may have been used for by different dinosaurs.
• How to make and compare observations about dinosaurs.
• Back at school, use the booklet to create a short text on a postcard to describe their museum excursion.

Students will be provided

• An exclusive, 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: Foundation to Level 2

• plants and animals have observable features that can be used to group them in different ways
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• plants and animals have external features that perform different functions to enable their survival; in plants these features include roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruit, bulbs, trunks and branches while different features in animals enable them to move, breathe, eat and respond to their environment
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