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Preschool Science Workshop... Digging Dinosaurs! | Fizzics Education
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Digging Dinosaurs

Digging Dinosaurs

Early learners love these HUGE animals from a bygone era!

🧸 Preschool & Early Learning

Dinosaur Palaeontology

A roaring great time for budding little scientists!

The kids will have a roaring great time as they learn about dinosaurs in this hands-on workshop designed to look at palaeontology in a realistic, intriguing way… no slideshows here!

  • Face-to-Face: Replica Velociraptor & T-Rex skulls.
  • Dig Sites: Dig out and analyse real-world specimens.
  • Fossil Formation: How to find fossils on the beach.
  • Skin & Scales: Feel and compare replica dinosaur skin.
  • Megafauna: Exploring local Australian giants.
  • Casting: Make ancient creature casts to keep!

🦖 Real-world expertise!

Our Founder has participated in real dinosaur digs in outback Queensland, experience that shaped the distance learning programs for the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum.

Led by a Churchill Fellow, we combine real-world paleontology with over 20 years of engagement expertise for over 4 million students.


Read about our visit to the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum.

Trusted Early Learning Specialists

“The children were so engaged and haven’t stopped talking about the experiments!” — Papilio Early Learning

Early Years Learning Framework Learning Outcomes

  • 1.2 Develop emerging autonomy, interdependence, resilience and sense of agency
  • 4.1 Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity.
  • 4.2 Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating.
  • 4.3 Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another.
  • 4.4 Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials.
  • 5.1 Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes.

ELYF links to all of our preschool science workshops

Victorian Curriculum

  • Objects and parts of the world around us have names and particular characteristics (VCSSU021)
  • Supported to engage in simple scientific inquiry (VCSIS026)
  • Supported to use the senses to identify some characteristics (VCSIS027)
  • Make links between observations and findings (VCSIS029)
  • Use pictures, symbols, concrete objects and/or simple familiar words to facilitate communication (VCSIS030)
  • Science is about exploring the world around me (VCSSU031)
  • Actively join in exploration of familiar objects and events (VCSIS036)
  • Use both general terms and simple, scientific vocabulary to begin to describe their activities and observations (VCSIS040)

School Testimonials

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Beaumont Bears

Thank you for a wonderful morning, our children were really involved and have learnt a lot! Even the 2 year olds were interested!
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Karabar Preschool

We would definitely book this again!

Science Show Demonstrations

Dinosaur
dig out

Organise your team to excavate your specimens

Dan the
Duck Bill

Replica of a parasaurolophus skull. It's head crest made many loud sounds

Dino
Eggs

What did they look like? What did the embryo's look like inside?

Sands
of Time

Look at how sedimentation helps to form fossils

Scaly
skin

Compare modern animal skins to the replica dinosaur skin

Casting
creatures

Makes casts of ancient organism impressions

Hip to
Hip

Compare dinosaur hips with anatomical models of a bird and lizard

Birds are
Dinos?

Check out the archaeopteryx, a possible precursor to modern birds

For the
record

Geological record shows a mass extinction 65 million ago. Why did it occur?

T-rex
Puzzle

Mix and match the right bones to form a replica T-Rex skeleton.

Terry
Triceratops

Meet the cuddly Triceratops puppet and learn about Cretaceous herbivores

Talking
Teeth

Work out which teeth belong to which extinct or modern animal

A child scratching the throat of a large green triceratops animatronic puppet

Available in Sydney & Melbourne districts

What do the kids get to do?

Kids love dinosaurs! Your little scientists will learn exactly how we know dinosaurs existed while exploring the difference between plant and meat-eaters. Following a brief introduction, children work like real palaeontologists to sweep out and identify fossil replicas. Together, they will construct a miniature T-Rex, feel replica dinosaur eggs, skin, and teeth, and even pat our baby Triceratops before making their own fossils to keep.

Duration

The program is perfectly paced for younger attention spans, combining interactive demonstrations and guided activities during the interactive 60 minutes.

trex replica

Requirements

Site Requirements

🔬 Setup

👤 Capacity: Max 30 children

🎂 Age: 3 to 5 years (no under 3s)

🪑 Furniture: 6 tables (No chairs)

🌳 Space: Outdoor area for fossil making

Utilities: 1 power socket

Duration: 60 mins

🚛 Bump in/out: 45 mins

🛡️ $20M Public Liability

✅ WWCC Checked

📋 Full Risk Assessments

✨ COVID Safe Company

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Cost

💰 Workshop Pricing

Preschool Investment

$520 inc. GST (60 Mins)
📍 Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra & Surrounds

We use a flat-rate per workshop model to keep things simple for your school office. No per-head charges means less paperwork and predictable costs.

Call 1300 856 828 to Book

*Based on a maximum of 30 students attending. Travel costs apply outside core zones.

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Extension Ideas!

Online course: Teaching Science in Early Childhood

  • An entire year of science lessons for early learners
  • Practical & linked to the Early Years Learning Framework Learning Outcomes
  • 3.5 hours of on-demand videos
  • Printable resource sheets & materials lists
  • Attribute as teacher-identified teacher professional development hours

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