Dinosaurs don’t roar


Year level
Year K – 2
Duration
45 minutes
Cost
$240 per group (up to 32 students)
Audience
Primary

Learn about our prehistoric history, handle fossils, and follow in the footsteps of dinosaurs.

In this hands-on workshop, students join “Dr Bones” to discover how sedimentation has created fossil remnants of dinosaurs and handle real and replica fossils from the Museum’s collections.

 

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Student experience

Students will:

  • Discover how sedimentation has created fossils remnants of dinosaurs 
  • Handle real and replica fossils from the Museum collection
  • Determine what fossils can teach us about the prehistoric world
  • Hear the story of the Broome Dinosaur Trackways
  • Encounter some of the dinosaurs that lived in Western Australia


Skills development

This program links to the following strands of the Western Australian Curriculum:

 

Pre-primary

Science

  • Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events (ACSHE013)
  • Pose and respond to questions about familiar objects and events (ACSIS014)
  • Participate in guided investigations and make observations using the senses (ACSIS011)

 

Year 1

Science

  • Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events (ACSHE021)
  • Pose and respond to questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events (ACSIS024)
  • Participate in guided investigations to explore and answer questions (ACSIS025)

 

Year 2

Science

  • Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events (ACSHE034)
  • Pose and respond to questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events (ACSIS037)

 

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