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Various education documents are available to be downloaded free of charge. The file format is Acrobat pdf. Click on the PDF button to download a copy.

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Guides	Risk Assessments	Provisional bookings
Activity Sheets	Case Studies	Word Searches
Colouring Sheets	Public Fossil Walks

Guides

Teachers' Guide (large 18 page colour document)
Guide francais de Dinosaur Isle. (A brief French Guide to Dinosaur Isle).
Museumsfuhrer der Dinosaur Isle. (A brief German Guide to Dinosaur Isle).

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Risk Assessments

Schools should carry out their own risk assessments prior to any visit. Pre-visits by teachers are free of charge, but please contact us prior to arrival. We have carried out our own risk assessments for the museum and the field-trip sites. You are welcome to use these to aid your own risk assessment, but must take into account the ages and abilities of your pupils.

Risk Assessment - building
Site Hazard Assessment - Yaverland field trip site
Site Hazard Assessment - St Catherine's field trip site
Site Hazard Assessment - Shanklin field trip site
Site Hazard Assessment - Brook & Compton Bays field trip site
Site Hazard Assessment - Gore Cliff landscape walk site
Use of the beach wheelchair

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Provisional Bookings

Provisional School Booking Form (post or Fax to us). Send a Fax or letter to follow up your booking when tide information and existing commitments are known.

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Activity Sheets

Key Stage 1/2 Activity sheet (Museum based) - 2 objects

Key Stage 1/2 Activity sheet (Museum based) - 3 objects

Key Stage 2/3 Activity sheet (Museum based)

A CLIL worksheet (April 2010) is now available for download by clicking on the pdf symbol. (File size 590 Kb). The Content and Language Integrated Learning worksheet was produced by Yvette Minassian, CLIL teacher at Institut Sainte-Julie in Belgium for an April 2010 visit. It is suitable for CLIL students in their second year (lower secondary / 8th grade).
Contact: yvette12345@yahoo.de

An answer sheet for the CLIL worksheet is available for download by clicking on the pdf symbol. (File size 288 Kb).

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Case Studies

Heritage and Tourism Studies information sheet

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Word Searches

TIPS for school teachers.

The following Word Searches are all associated with the teaching of Earth Sciences, and have been produced by Dinosaur Isle. The Bones and Elements searches are probably the most relevant. They could be used to supplement coursework or homework. The Bones search could be used in Biology GCSE classes, and the Elements search could be used in both Physics and Chemistry GCSE.

For Word Searches 1 to 5 you may wish to simply download and use the search without alteration. Should you need to make them more difficult then you may wish to provide the search without the list of words, with a list of initial letters only, or you may wish to supply the list with an extra (unused) word and ask pupils to identify the word that does not appear in the grid.

For Word Search 6 you could choose not to supply the additional page. This search will reinforce learning concerned with the Periodic Table.

All of the searches have been tested on pupils, staff and visitors to the museum, and have proven addictive. The Elements search has been completed by a bright ten year old. You may wish to print them on different colour paper before issuing them.

No. 1 Geology
No. 2 Tyrannosaurus rex
No. 3 African Dinosaurs
No. 4 Bones
No. 5 Gemstones
No. 6 Elements

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Colouring Sheets

Dinosaur Isle colouring sheet (museum & dinosaurs - from the Next Brilliant Wight Colouring Book, courtesy of Beverley Taylor)
Mammoth - an ancestral elephant from the time of the Ice Age.
Sauropod - a long-necked dinosaur from the Isle of Wight.
Cretaceous landscape scenes.
Tyrannosaurus rex skull (from the Dinosaur Isle model).
Neovenator - a meat-eating dinosaur from the Isle of Wight.
Agate - a rock made of bands of coloured minerals.
Lower Greensand fossil ammonites - two fossils on display at Dinosaur Isle.
Polacanthus - an armoured dinosaur from the Isle of Wight.
Living Nautilus - a surviving member of a group of sea-creatures that once included the ammonites.