Triceratops Alive!
- 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 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
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
VC2S2U01 - 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
VC2S2U03
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.
