Science

Dinosaurs

Travel back in time to walk among dinosaurs. This immersive VR workshop brings the prehistoric world to life, exploring evolution, adaptation and Earth's dynamic geological processes in virtual reality. Students don't just learn about dinosaurs — they experience them.

Students walking among dinosaurs in immersive VR

Duration

40–50 mins

Class Size

Up to 32

Suitable For

KS1–KS2

What's Included

VR + Resources

Step into a world 66 million years ago

The Dinosaurs VR workshop transports students to landscapes filled with dinosaurs. Using immersive virtual reality, children stand face-to-face with a T-Rex, explore Triceratops territory, and witness the asteroid impact that changed everything. It's the kind of experience that creates lifelong science enthusiasts.

KS1 students explore different dinosaur types, compare features, and investigate what fossils tell us. KS2 students dig deeper into evolution, adaptation, geological time periods, and the evidence scientists use to reconstruct prehistoric life. Every activity builds enquiry skills.

Book a full-day visit and choose a different VR topic for every year group — making it super specific to each class's curriculum and exceptional value for money.

VR Experience

VR Experience

Each session includes a Virtual Reality segment where students are transported into immersive environments. Using class sets of VR headsets, children explore 360° recreations of scientific environments — from standing on melting ice caps to walking among dinosaurs.

360° Immersive Environments
Fully immersive scientific recreations
Shared Headset Experience
One headset between two, per screen time recommendations
Guided Experience
Facilitator-led narration throughout
Curriculum Aligned
Mapped to National Curriculum KS1/KS2

What Students Do

1

T-Rex Encounter

Come face-to-face with the most fearsome predator that ever lived. Students explore this 12-metre, 7-tonne carnivore — its 60 banana-sized teeth, bone-crushing bite and remarkable eyesight.

VR Scene
2

Fossil Discovery

Become a palaeontologist. Students find out how bones buried deep in the ground turned to stone, and how scientists use hammers, chisels and brushes to dig fossils out without breaking them.

VR Scene
3

Triassic World

Travel back more than 200 million years to when the first dinosaurs appeared on the supercontinent Pangaea. Students meet early dinosaurs such as Eoraptor — small, fast and about the size of a large chicken.

VR Scene
4

Triceratops Territory

Meet the three-horned giant of the Late Cretaceous. Students explore this 9-metre herbivore's horns and protective frill, and the parrot-like beak it used to bite off tough plants.

VR Scene
5

Cretaceous Period

Experience the final and longest age of the dinosaurs, lasting 79 million years. Students discover the most diverse range of species, giant sauropods, flying pterosaurs and the first flowering plants.

VR Scene
6

Asteroid Impact

Witness the extinction event that ended the age of the dinosaurs. A 10 km-wide asteroid struck what is now Mexico 66 million years ago, throwing up so much dust that the sky went dark for months.

VR Scene

Learning Outcomes

Evolution and adaptation

Students understand how living things change over time and adapt to their environments.

Evidence-based reasoning

Students learn how scientists use fossils and evidence to reconstruct the past.

Geological understanding

Students grasp the concept of deep time and how Earth has changed over millions of years.

Classification skills

Students can group and classify living things based on observable features and characteristics.

"The moment a T-Rex appeared in VR, every single child gasped. But what really impressed me was the fossil investigation afterwards — they were asking questions I'd expect from secondary school students. The combination of VR and hands-on activities is incredibly powerful."
Year 3 Teacher
Primary School, Sheffield

Pricing & Workshop Day

Half Day

Up to 4 sessions

£599
Up to 4 workshops · £4.68 per pupil
  • 45–50 min per session
  • Up to 32 pupils per session
  • EYFS–Year 6 adaptable
  • VR & all resources included
  • Dedicated facilitator

Sample full-day timetable

Sessions run 45–50 minutes. We're flexible — we'll work around your timetable.

9:00–9:40
Session 1
Y3 · 40 min
9:45–10:25
Session 2
Y4 · 40 min
10:25–10:40
Morning break
10:40–11:20
Session 3
Y5 · 40 min
11:25–12:05
Session 4
Y6 · 40 min
12:05–1:00
Lunch break
1:00–1:35
Session 5
Y1 · 35 min
1:40–2:15
Session 6
Y2 · 35 min
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