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Digging Dinosaurs Holiday Workshop with Fizzics Education
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Digging Dinosaurs

Digging Dinosaurs

Fossil science for the holidays! A look at ancient organisms, their traces, relationships & extinction theories

📚 Library Suitable

Dinosaur Palaeontology

A roaring great time for the school holidays!

Learn about dinosaurs in a realistic, hands-on workshop designed to intrigue budding paleontologists.

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

🦖 Did you know? We have real-world expertise!

While Fizzics Education has been running science programs for Libraries, OOSH, BASC, and Councils since 2004, our expertise goes beyond the classroom. This program is uniquely informed by real field experience.

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.

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Every holiday period, Fizzics Education present holiday programs workshops for local council libraries, vacation care centres, OOSHC and at our own venues. These workshops are designed to cater for a wide range of ages, even the adults join in! Book early to avoid disappointment. A school holiday program treat!

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Hands-on science stations

Dinosaur dig out

Organise your team to excavate your specimens

Dan the Duck Bill

Replica of a parasaurolophus skull. Its head crest made many loud sounds!

Dino Eggs

What did they look like? What did the embryos 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

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

Vacation Care Reviews

Gasworks Arts Park

The workshop went super well, the kids and parents absolutely raved about it, and as always, Ben was fantastic. Looking forward to booking something in for the next school holidays!

Narre Warren Sth Scout Group

We had a wonderful morning with Ben & Peter. We will be sharing our experience with other scout groups in our district. Thanks, we would definitely book this again!

Requirements

📚 Library Suitable

Digging Dinosaurs: Site Requirements

Logistics for our hands-on paleontological workshop.

🦖 Paleontology Logistics

👤 Capacity: Maximum 30 children per session.
🎂 Age Group: Appropriate for ages 5 and up.
🪑 Furniture: 10 to 12 tables arranged around the room.
⏰ Duration: 60 minutes.
đźš› Bump In/Out: 45 mins setup / 45 mins pack up.

Note: Chairs are not required. Students will be actively “digging” and examining specimens at the tables.

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Cost

Dinosaur Workshop Pricing

$520 inc. GST (60 Mins)
✨ Only $17.33 per child!*
$620 inc. GST (90 Mins)
✨ Only $20.67 per child!*

We keep your administrative load light with flat-rate workshop pricing. No per-site fees or complex billing—just engaging, hands-on paleontology for your center.

*Based on 30 students attending. Also available as an interactive online class worldwide!

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