The activity booklet is especially designed to help primary school age children explore and reflect on their Lark Quarry experience. Fun activities encourage children to interact, find or think about the displays and the three main themes - the Dinosaur Trackways, Jump Up country and ESD design aspects.

The activities have been designed with movement around the site in mind, with activities to keep children busy on the long drive home also included.

» Download Ollie's Lark Quarry Activity Book (1,500kb)

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The Lark Quarry education kit provides a unique opportunity for students to explore the Science curriculum's key learning areas: Earth and Beyond, Energy and Change, Life and Living, and Science and Society.

The kit includes on-site activities, and activities designed for the classroom.

Classroom activities are particularly useful for teachers who are unable to take students on a visit to Lark Quarry.

While the focus of the kit is in the Science area, it is designed to link with other syllabus, including English, Studies of Society and Environment, Technology, Mathematics, and The Arts. Lark Quarry also presents a project opportunity for students studying the Tourism syllabus in Years 11 and 12.

The activities in the kit are designed for Levels 3 - 6, covering upper primary and lower secondary students. However, some of the activities can be adapted for Levels 1 - 2.

» Download Classroom Activity Kit (356kb)

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The Lark Quarry Fact Sheets provide more detailed information on the Dinosaur Trackways, ecologically sustainable design features of Lark Quarry, and the surrounding countryside.

The Fact Sheets are pdfs. They are especially useful for students and teachers working through the Classroom Activity Kit.

» Fact Sheet 1 – The Lark Quarry Dinosaur Trackways stampede (264kb)
» Fact Sheet 2 –The trackmakers (260kb)
» Fact Sheet 3 – Jump Up country (312kb)
» Fact Sheet 4 – Ecologically Sustainable Design at Lark Quarry (256kb)
» Fact Sheet 5 – Geology of Lark Quarry, Winton and the Great Artesian Basin (204kb)

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PDFs of the displays at Lark Quarry have been included on this website. These displays are particularly useful for teachers who may not be able to organise school excursions to the Lark Quarry, but would still like to give students an experience of the site and the Dinosaur Trackways.

» Entry (1,008kb)
» Jump-Up country (1,300kb)
» The lake (848kb)
» The setting (324kb)
» The drama (780kb)
» The players (368kb)
» The trackmakers (60kb)
» The epilogue (808kb)
» Behind the scenes (1,200kb)
» Ollie's story – 1 (308kb)
» Ollie's story – 2 (276kb)
» Ollie's story – 3 (300kb)
» Ollie's story – 4 (200kb)
» Ollie's story – 5 (248kb)
» Ollie's story – 6 (288kb)
» ESD (8kb)
» ESD – the brief (340kb)
» ESD – sunshades (16kb)
» The spinifex circuit (36kb)

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If you are looking for more information on dinosaurs or ESD principles, you will find our reference list or website links a good place to start!

Teaching websites:
Education Queensland Curriculum Exchange:
» http://learningplace.eq.edu.au/cx/

Dinosaur websites:
Australian Age of Dinosaurs:
» www.australianageofdinosaurs.com
University of Queensland Palaeontology Department:
» www.uq.edu.au/dinosaurs
Queensland Museum:
» www.qmuseum.qld.gov.au
South Australia Museum:
» www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/pdf/dinosaurs
Questacon:
» www.questacon.edu.au/html/terrorsaurus
ABC:
» www.abc.net.au/dinosaurs/meet_the_dinos
Dinosaur database:
» www.arts-letters.com/dino2/ency
Victorian Museum:
» www.sci.monash.edu.au/msc/lessons
Dinosaur encyclopedia:
» www.isgs.uiuc.edu/dinos/de_4
» www.search4dinosaurs.com/pictures

ESD websites:
Sustainable future:
» www.sustainableenergy.qld.edu.au
Griffith ecocentre:
» www.gu.edu.au/centre/ecocentre/

Useful dinosaur books:
Encyclopedia of dinosaurs San Diego: Academic Press,1997.

Long, John A.; Dinosaurs of Australia and New Zealand and other animals of the Mesozoic era Sydney: UNSW Press,1998.

Vickers-Rich, Patricia & Rich, Thomas H. Wildlife of Gondwana: dinosaurs and other vertebrates from the ancient supercontinent Bloomington: Indiana University Press,1999.

Rich, Thomas H. V. & Vickers-Rich, Patricia. Dinosaurs of darkness Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Vickers-Rich, Patricia Australia's lost world: a history of Australia's backboned animals Kenthurst, N.S.W.: Kangaroo Press,1996.

White, M. E. Reading the rocks East Roseville N.S.W.: Kangaroo Press,1999.

Rolls, Eric C. Australia: a biography, the beginnings from the cosmos to the genesis of Gondwana, and its rivers, forests, flora, fauna, and fecundity. St Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 2000.

Lilydale, Vic.: Vertebrate palaeontology of Australasia Pioneer Design Studio in cooperation with the Monash University Publications Committee, Melbourne,1991.

Fenton, Carroll L. & Mildred A. The fossil book: a record of prehistoric life Rev. by Patricia Vickers-Rich, Thomas H. Rich, & Mildred A. Fenton. New York: Doubleday, c1989.

Vickers-Rich, Patricia & Van Tets, Gerard, eds. Kadimakara: extinct vertebrates of Australia Lilydale, Vic.: Pioneer Design Studio,1985.

Morrissey, David.The age of dinosaurs South Melbourne: Macmillan Education Australia,1995.

Yeend, Norman. Muttaburrasaurus: life in Gondwana. Sydney: ABC Books,1995.

Higgins, Geoff. Australia, the land time forgot: the origins of our land, plants and animals Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.: Child & Associates,1988.

Mackness, Brian. Prehistoric Australia: 4000 million years of evolution in Australia Sydney : Golden Press,1987.

Schouten, Peter. The antipodean ark North Ryde, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson,1987.

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