Triceratops Survives
- 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 3 to 4
- 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 real dinosaurs and discover how they survived.
Students will experience
- Visit two galleries, Dinosaur Walk and Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs to see the amazing real fossil skeleton of Triceratops and real fossil dinosaur eggs to learn about dinosaur life cycles.
- Be immersed in the habitat of Triceratops to discover the many Cretaceous food chains!
- Use their very own Dinosaur Booklet to record their observations of dinosaurs; including a Survival Game, with a make your own dice, to learn about dinosaur survival to play back at school.
Students will learn
- Dinosaurs, like living things, had characteristics that distinguish them from non-living things and we know this from their fossils.
- Dinosaurs had a life cycles and reproduced by laying eggs, and we know this from the fossil record.
- Carnivores, herbivores and plants all had different roles and interactions within a Cretaceous habitat.
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 a pencil for each student to be able to fill in their booklet in the galleries.
Victorian Curriculum links
Biological sciences: Levels 3 and 4
- living things have characteristics that distinguish them from non-living things and things that were once living, including fossils
VC2S4U01 - plants and animals have different life cycles; offspring are similar, but not identical, to their parents
VC2S4U02 - consumers, producers and decomposers have different roles and interactions within a habitat; food chains can be used to represent feeding relationships
VC2S4U03
Science Inquiry
Questioning and predicting
- observations can be used as a basis for posing questions to identify patterns and relationships, and to predict the outcomes of investigations
VC2S4I01
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.
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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.
