In this hands-on facilitated workshop, students will learn about palaeontologists, discover how sedimentation has created fossil remnants of dinosaurs and other prehistoric life, and handle real and replica fossils from the WA Museum Boola Bardip’s collections.
This program links to content found in Wild Life Gallery, which can be explored as part of a self-guided visit.
During the workshop, 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 students
Upon completion of the program, Year 3 students will be escorted to Boola Bardip’s 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.
This program links to the following strands of the Western Australian Curriculum. More details can be found here.
