Dino Planet

Calling all budding Palaeontologists! The museum needs some help in uncovering and identifying an array of dinosaur bones and fossils from our collection. Through the handling of both real and replica bones and fossils students will become confident in naming different dinosaur body parts and explaining how fossils are created. They will leave the museum ready for a dig armed with a selection of their own fossil rubbings and imaginative dinosaur masks.

Session aim:

• To identify and name different dinosaur parts and fossils and begin to consider the distinction between things that are alive, that are dead, and things that were never alive.

Session objectives:

• Identify the 3 different types of dinosaurs.
• Recognise what a fossil is, how fossils are made and where they are found.
• Identify the names of dinosaur bones and where they are in the body.

Curriculum links (Department for Education):

• Fine Motor Skills: “Use a range of small tools, including scissors, paint brushes and cutlery”.
• Understanding the World: “Know some similarities and differences between things in the past and now, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class”.
• Expressive Arts and Design: “Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function”.
• Science: “They should be helped to develop their understanding of scientific ideas by using different types of scientific enquiry to answer their own questions, including observing changes over a period of time, noticing patterns, grouping and classifying things, carrying out simple comparative tests, and finding things out using secondary sources of information. They should begin to use simple scientific language to talk about what they have found out and communicate their ideas to a range of audiences in a variety of ways”.

Science: “describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including pets)”.