This programme is for the following year groups: ECE
Children and whānau can discover more about dinosaurs through storytelling and hands-on exploration of replica bones.
This programme takes place in the Weird & Wonderful gallery and provides children the opportunity to explore their own interests.
Learning Outcomes
Learners will:
• Explore, ask questions, and create their own working theories in relation to dinosaurs.
• Understand that palaeontologists learn about dinosaurs by studying fossils.
• Handle and make comparisons between a range of dinosaur fossil bone replica, large and small.
• Recognise the difference between the teeth of dinosaurs that ate plants and those that ate meat.
• Understand the principle of ‘mauri’ and explore the concept and practices of ‘kaitiakitanga’.
• Learn the whakapapa of various fossils found across Tāmaki Makaurau and Aotearoa to make connections to their own past.
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