Dinosaurs Don’t Roar
Dates
Weekdays during school term | 10am and 12.30pm
$280 per group (up to 32 students)
What noise did a dinosaur make? Fossil evidence and palaeontologists tell us they probably didn't roar!
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 palaeontologists 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
- Consider what noise dinosaurs might have made!
Year 3 program only:
- Upon completion of program, be escorted to the Wild Life Gallery and receive a measurement activity to complete in a self guided capacity in-gallery. This activity will focus on measuring and calculating dinosaur size relative to their footprints.
Program feedback
"Engaging and at the student level. Introducing them to fossils and their interesting history."
Curriculum links
This program links to the following strands of the Western Australian Curriculum:
Pre-primary
- Science inquiry
- Questioning and predicting: Pose questions and make predictions based on prior knowledge and shared experiences (WAPSSIQ1)
- Planning and conducting:
- Participate in guided and self-initiated investigations safely (WAPSSIPL1)
- Make observationske observations using comparison (WAPSSIPL2)
- Communicating: Share questions, predictions, observations and ideas with others (WAPSSICM1)
- Collaborating and applying: Use the senses to learn about the natural and physical world and develop scientific ideas (WAPSSICL1)
Year 1
- Science Inquiry
- Questioning and predicting: Pose questions and make predictions based on knowledge and experiences (WA1SSIQ1)
- Planning and conducting: Engage in guided investigations to answer questions, test predictions and assess risks (WA1SSIPL1)
- Communicating: Communicate observations, ideas, and findings using everyday and scientific vocabulary (WA1SSICM1)
Year 2
- Science Inquiry
- Questioning and predicting: Pose questions and make predictions based on knowledge and experiences (WA2SSIQ1)
- Planning and conducting: Make and record observations, including informal measurements (WA2SSIPL2)
- Communicating: Communicate observations, ideas, and findings using everyday and scientific vocabulary (WA2SSICM1)
Year 3
- Biological Science: Living things can be distinguished from non-living and once-living things, and grouped by their characteristics (WA3SSUB1)
- Science Inquiry
- Planning and conducting: Make and record observations, including formal measurements using familiar scaled instruments (WA3SSIPL2)
- Evaluating: Compare findings with those of others, and to predictions; consider if investigations were fair; and identify questions for further investigation (WA3SSIE1)
- Collaborating and applying: Use science knowledge to propose explanations for observed phenomena and solutions to problems (WA3SSICL1)
- Mathematics
- Measurement and Geometry: Estimate, measure and order lengths in uniform units, including millimetres, centimetres and metres (WA3MMGTW2)
All facilitated workshops are led by the Museum’s experienced Learning and Engagement team and have been curated using the Museum’s unique resources to provide a deeper learning experience in our specialist subject areas.
Your booking for a facilitated workshop will include all materials and activities for the duration of the program with no prior preparation required.
As part of all facilitated workshop bookings, you are welcome to explore the rest of the Museum free of charge pre or post workshop and do not need to make any additional bookings to do so. WA Museum Boola Bardip is open daily from 9.30am to 5pm, with last entry at 4pm.
