Dinosaurs! Adaptations and Habitats

by Digital Field Trips

Explore the different ways dinosaurs used their bodies to survive in their natural habitats millions of years ago. Through the inspection of plant and dinosaur fossils, students will discover how dinosaurs found food and interacted with their environments. They’ll even learn how animals on earth can give us clues about how dinosaurs looked and behaved.

 

Digital Field Trips are inquiry based and staff led. We can adapt Digital Field Trips for different grade ranges, home learners, or for adult, senior, community-group or post-secondary audiences.

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These Playlists include additional resources that accompany these Digital Field Trips. They are continuously being updated, so please check before and after your program for new resources.

Move Like a Dinosaur! – Sauropod

Move Like a Dinosaur! – Sauropod

By Digital Field Trips
Narrate with the music using the script below. Allow enough time for the students to play and experiment with their movements in between lines of narration.    
  • You are a tall sauropod, looking for lunch
  • Walk slowly as you stretch out your long neck, looking over the trees for tasty leaves
  • Choose a tree and chew the sweet, green leaves.
  • Look around you on the ground at the little dinosaurs running around far below at your feet. Be careful as you walk not to step on any of them!
  • It takes a lot of energy to move your heavy body, so you move slowly, slowly.
Move Like a Dinosaur! – Tyrannosaurus Rex

Move Like a Dinosaur! – Tyrannosaurus Rex

By Digital Field Trips
Narrate with the music using the script below. Allow enough time for the students to play and experiment with their movements in between lines of narration.  
  • You are Tyrannosaurus Rex walking through the forest
  • You are crashing down trees as you move
  • Let out a deep roar as you stomp
  • Use your sharp teeth to pick up a smaller dinosaur in your teeth and shake it in your mouth
  • It does not taste good, drop it on the ground
  • Keep stomping around looking for something else to eat
  • Smile with your big, pointy teeth
  • The sun goes down and you curl up on the forest floor to fall asleep
Move Like a Dinosaur! – Hadrosaur

Move Like a Dinosaur! – Hadrosaur

By Digital Field Trips
Narrate with the music using the script below. Allow enough time for the students to play and experiment with their movements in between lines of narration.
  • You are a Hadrosaur playing in the forest
  • Lean forward and walk on all fours as you trot between the trees
  • The bright sunlight shines through the Dawn Redwood trees, and you start to get tired in the heat. It’s so hot!
  • Use the claws on your back feet to dig in the dark, wet earth to find some water
  • Take a big drink have a rest as you cool off
Journey of a Fossil

Journey of a Fossil

By Digital Field Trips
In 2017, curator of palaeontology Dr. Victoria Arbour and her team discovered a fossil of the Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides), a tree which lived alongside dinosaurs 67 million years ago. How did this fossil become part of the Royal BC Museum collections?
Mountain Dinosaur of BC

Mountain Dinosaur of BC

Almost 50 years ago a geologist found dinosaur fossils in northern BC. Today those fossils are in the Royal BC Museum collection. Curator of palaeontology Dr. Victoria Arbour studies those fossils. Find out about her exciting discoveries!
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Fossil Finds!

Fossil Finds!

In 2018 the Leahy-Langevin Collection of fossils from the McAbee Fossil Beds near Kamloops was donated to the Royal BC Museum. Explore images and video to learn more about these important fossil finds.
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Oldest and Oddest

Oldest and Oddest

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Some of the oldest fossils in the Royal BC Museum collection are some of the oddest looking too. Learn about the strange forms of early life on Earth.
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