Fossil Activities

Why Study Dinosaurs and Other Fossils? provides information about the place of palaeontology in general education, and in Victorian school curricula.

The dinosaur and fossil activities on the following pages are suitable for classrooms or may be done at home. Some require materials and simple equipment, while others involve further research or just imagination!

Junior Level Activities Things to make and do, and to write about.

Middle Level Activities Drawing, research and model making.

Senior Level Activities More complex and challenging projects.

Classroom and Museum Activities (The Natural History Museum, London)
Creative Writing, Size and Scale, and Sorting and Comparing Dinosaur Data exercises.