Dinosaur Hunters Workshop (EYFS-KS3)
Workshop Provided by Palaoquest
Become palaeontologists in this exciting dinosaur workshop. Search for clues. Get your hands on real dinosaur fossils, and some spectacular replicas in your own school. Learn how to find out the answers for yourself using the fossil clues. Examine a claw as long as your arm, a horn as long as your leg, a footprint that your whole class can stand on, hold real dinosaur poo, find out what Jurassic actually means.
Rocks & Fossils Workshop (KS2 & KS3)
Workshop Provided by Palaoquest
Get hands-on with rocks and fossils, soils, and geological equipment in this workshop. Examine, compare and group a wide variety of specimens. Investigate the properties of rocks, and their uses in our everyday lives or their role in the rock cycle. Learn how fossils get inside rocks, and what they can tell us about prehistoric life. We can also examine thin-sections of rocks under the microscope, rock-forming minerals, and weathering of rocks.