Dino Detectives
Hold real fossils and solve prehistoric mysteries!
Pairs handle real fossils and compare dinosaur teeth, bones and footprints with animals alive today. They excavate a fossil dig, follow a trackway, build a skeleton and use every clue as evidence to work out what a mystery dinosaur ate and how it lived.
K–6 + HPGE
Hands-on
Investigations
Inquiry Based
Primary School Workshops
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What's In Dino Detectives?
A hands-on workshop about fossils and dinosaurs: what can fossils tell us about life long ago? Every student investigates with a challenge card matched to your stage.
Every session opens with a prehistoric mystery, and ends with the class using the evidence to deliver its verdict.
Inside
Inside or outside
Inside
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Finale
Year Levels
K–6 + HPGE
Duration
60 or 90 minutes
Group Size
Up to 32
Price (incl GST)
$690 (60 min)
$21.56 per student
$790 (90 min)
$24.69 per student
Differentiated challenge cards matched to your class
Choose experiences to match your class interests
Predict, test, observe and explain
THE CRAZY SCIENTIST DIFFERENCE
Multiple Investigations. Learning Matched to Every Stage
Differentiated challenges and syllabus-connected learning across the workshop.
Explore the learning at your stage.
Early Stage 1 — Dino Detectives
Early Stage 1 cards help students explore real fossils and work out what a dinosaur ate.
Relevant NSW Science & Technology outcomes (2024)
Every group works from a Early Stage 1 challenge card written for these outcomes.
✓ STe-SCI-01 — Living things have characteristics that help them survive in their environment
Examine animal bodies, their body coverings, and how and what they eat
✓ STe-SCI-01 — Living things have characteristics that help them survive in their environment
Identify and use tools to aid and extend sensory observations
See the Science in Action
LEARNING BEYOND THE WOW
What Students learn & How We Support Teachers
What Your Students Will Learn
Explain what a fossil is
Use teeth and bones as evidence of diet
Compare fossils with living animals
Explain how fossils show the Earth has changed
Differentiated challenges and syllabus-connected learning across the workshop.
Differentiated challenges and syllabus-connected learning across the workshop.
How we support teachers
Challenge cards for every stage, used by
students during the session.
Classroom follow-up experiments to keep the learning going
Risk assessment, Working With Children Check and public liability insurance details, sent before your visit
Thinking skills students practise
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Workshop Requirements & Bookings
Everything You Need to Know
Up to 32 students per session
Group Size
60 or 90 minutes
Session Time
A classroom with tables for 16 pairs. Footprint Trackers can run inside or outside. Everything else runs inside.
Space & Setup
All materials, equipment, safety glasses and stage challenge cards.
What we Provide
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Enquire About This Workshop
30+ Years Teaching Science
Experienced science teacher designing activities that keep children engaged, involved and learning.
We Bring Everything
Experiments, equipment and materials come with us — you just provide the space and the kids.
Tailored to Your School
Activities are adjusted to suit your class’s stage
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