Fossils and Dinosaurs

Our schools loan boxes can be used to supplement your chosen topic of study with a hands-on, object-led experience inside your own classroom. Loan boxes contain a mixture of real and replica artefacts from the museum as well as ephemera, books, and costumes to bring your classroom learning to life.

Loan boxes are hired over a half-term period and must be collected from and returned to the Dorman Museum.

If you require a more detailed list of loan box contents, please contact the museum Learning Officer.

Curriculum links (Department for Education):

• Science: “identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores”.
• Science: “describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, including pets)”.
• Science: “explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive”.
• Science: “describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock”.