Dinosaurs don’t roar

Hunt for the tracks and traces of Western Australia’s dinosaur past! Learn about our prehistoric history, handle fossils, and follow in the footsteps of dinosaurs.

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

This program links to content found in Wild Life Gallery, which can be explored as part of a self-guided visit.

Student experience

Students will

• Learn about paleontologists and what they do
• 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
• Measure dinosaur footprints and do some paleontological calculations to find out about the size of dinosaurs who once roamed Australia (Year 3 program only)

Skills development

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

Pre-primary

Science

• Nature and development of science: Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events (ACSHE013)
• Questioning and predicting: Pose and respond to questions about familiar objects and events (ACSIS014)
• Planning and conducting: Participate in guided investigations and make observations using the senses (ACSIS011)

Year 1

Science

• Nature and development of science: Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events (ACSHE021)
• Questioning and predicting: Pose and respond to questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events (ACSIS024)
• Planning and conducting: Participate in guided investigations to explore and answer questions (ACSIS025)

Year 2

Science

• Nature and development of science: Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events (ACSHE034)
• Questioning and predicting: Pose and respond to questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events (ACSIS037)

Year 3

Science

• Biological Science: Living things can be grouped on the basis of observable features and can be distinguished from non-living things (ACSSU044)
• Nature and development of science: Science involves making predictions and describing patterns and relationships (ACSHE050)

Mathematics

• Measurement and Geometry: Measure, order and compare objects using familiar metric units of length, mass and capacity (ACMMG061)