Ancient animals of Queensland
Foster a passion for science and discovery while delving into Queensland’s ancient megafauna, dinosaurs, and sea monsters in the Ancient Animals of Queensland school program. This exciting prehistoric program has been designed to meet curriculum needs in Biological Sciences and Science Inquiry Skills with different experiences for Prep-1, Year 3-4 and Year 5-6.
About the Program
Foster a passion for science and discovery while delving into Queensland’s ancient megafauna, dinosaurs, and sea monsters in the Ancient Animals of Queensland school program. This exciting prehistoric program has been designed to meet curriculum needs in Biological Sciences and Science Inquiry Skills with different experiences for Prep-1, Year 3-4 and Year 5-6.
Further Infomation
Students will have the opportunity to participate in an interactive and memorable program as they explore fossil moulds and ancient creature models that invite intriguing questions and exciting discoveries. The three programs are as follows:
- Foundation to Year 1: Where the Wild Things Were
- Year 3 to Year 4: Fantastic Beasts and How to Sort Them!
- Year 5 to Year 6: Prehistoric Predictions: Tales of Times Long Past
Objectives
Foundation to Year 1: Where the Wild Things Were
Learning outcomes
- Understand living things have basic needs, including food and water.
- Understand that ancient animals also had basic needs such as food and water.
- Recognise the different needs of different animal species, particularly plant-eating and meat-eating animals.
- Predict how movement of different animals depends on their features, size, and shape.
- Recognising common features, and some less common features of animals.
- Explore different habitats and recognise that different living things live in different places.
- Identify common features of plants such as leaves and roots.
- Recognise the important connection between an animal’s environment and survival.
- Recognise how changes in the weather might affect animals.
Year 3 to Year 4: Fantastic Beasts and How to Sort Them!
Learning outcomes
- Understand that fossils give us clues about extinct animals.
- Develop a deeper ability to ask questions, investigate and make predictions about unfamiliar objects, such as fossils.
- Understand that scientific inquiry can lead to amazing discoveries.
- Understand living things and once-living things can be grouped by their observable features.
- Understand how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People classify living things in different ways to contemporary science.
- Understand others ways living things can be classified, such as movement, reproduction, diet, environment, and the time when they lived.
- Recognise the great diversity of living things.
Year 5 to Year 6: Prehistoric Profiles: Tales of Times Long Past
Learning outcomes
- Understand that fossils give us clues about extinct animals.
- Discover how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge can assist in making predictions about Australia’s ancient past.
- Develop a deeper ability to ask questions, investigate and make predictions about unfamiliar objects, such as fossils.
- Understand that by analysing data and creating diagrams and charts, further predictions and discoveries can be made.
- Develop a stronger ability to communicate inquiries and discoveries.
- Understand that living things have structural features and adaptations that help them survive in their environment.
- Describe adaptations of living things suited to ancient Australian environments.