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
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