Play Fossil Dig
🦴 Digging up: Muttaburrasaurus · Digs: 0
Point at a square to see its name. Letter first, then number.
🗺️ The dig map says
- 1Dig at C4
- 2Dig at D4
- 3Dig at E4
- 4Dig at B4
🏛️ My museum
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About This Game
A dig site laid out like a map grid, with letters across the top and numbers down the side. The dig map says where the bones are: "Dig at C2", or on harder levels "2 squares right of B3". Every skeleton found goes into the child’s own museum, with Australian dinosaurs to collect.
Letter first, then number, the same as on a street map. Point at a square to see its name.
- Grid references
- Reading a map
- Counting squares and directions
- Dinosaurs and fossils
Street directories, atlases and city maps all use letter and number grid squares.
- Open a real map and find a place by its grid square together.
- Ask which way "up" and "down" go on the grid: the numbers get smaller going up.
- Read the dinosaur facts together when a skeleton is finished.
Who it suits: Easy suits ages 6–8 (squares named in full). Medium suits ages 8–10 (some counting from a known square). Hard suits ages 10–12 (a bigger grid, mostly counting clues).
This game practises these content descriptions. Tap a code to see its full wording and other games for it.
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