Activity Plan – Secondary

The activities listed here are available in the In School Activities section.

Pre-visit activity	Terrorsaurus Trail	Post-visit activity
Activity 1. Mind mapping.
Activity 2. Dinosaur data discovery Activity 3. What was a dinosaur?	Backs and bridges Look at the relationship between a suspension bridge and Apatosaurus. Observe other living things present in the Jurassic Period.
	Deinonychus dash Record measurements. Predict speed using these measurements. Record actual speed.
Activity 4. Make your own fossil casts. Activity 5. How do you ‘read’ tracks?	Trackasaurus Interpreting information from fossil remains, particularly tracks. Analysing the Lark Quarry re–enactment.	Activity 7. Lark Quarry investigation. Activity 8. Create your own dinosaur tracks.
Activity 6. Timeline.	Long Gone–a–saurus Identify the three main extinction hypotheses. Analyse evidence supporting each hypotheses.	Activity 9. What happened to the dinosaurs? Activity 10. No kidding, I‘m a dinosaur!
	Flesh on Bones Explore scientists’ current views on how Tyrannosaurus rex might have looked.
		Activity 11. Design–a–saurus. Activity 12. You’re the designer! Activity 13. Dinosaur sounds. Activity 14. Quizasaurus

Alternative activities at Terrorsaurus.

Students research a dinosaur displayed in the Terrorsaurus exhibition. (Activity 3)
Use the Dinosaur Data sheet as a proforma.
Students may want to focus on designing their own exhibit for display at school (Activity 11).