Y3 Trip to The Natural History Museum

07 Feb Y3 Trip to The Natural History Museum

Last week, Year 3 had a wonderful time visiting the Natural History Museum, which directly linked to their current Science Unit about rocks and fossils.  They travelled there and back on the London Underground, which linked to their current History topic, The Railway Revolution. During their ‘Dino Dig’ workshop, the children learnt how to be palaeontologists, using brushes to find the dinosaur skeletons. They looked for evidence to identify the species of dinosaur, referring to a sheet containing the identifying features and measures. Comments from the children include: “I loved the trip!” and “My favourite part was seeing the robot dinosaurs moving and the little dinosaurs fighting.” Other highlights were looking at the many different rocks and dinosaur bones. Children were keen to share what they had learned after the trip including: “I learnt about the Edmontosaurus”; “After dinosaurs died their bones were left lying in the soil” and “Mary Anning was a famous fossil hunter who found a Plesiosaurus.”