What are fossils?

What are fossils?

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I can use fossils found in an area to tell what that area was like long ago.

Essential Question

What are fossils?

Open Ended

Phenomenon: What do you think happened here and what is this?

Let's Talk About It!

• What is this?  

• What do you know about them? 

Open Ended

What is a fossil? What do you know about fossils?

What is a Fossil?

• Evidence of once living things from long ago (can be in the form of fossilized bones, which are actually minerals that have filled in where bones used to be.

• Extremely hard rock, which helps them stand the test of time.

• Fossils can be fossilized footprints or molds of the body of a once living thing.

• Fossils can teach us many things about living things from long ago.

Multiple Select

Fossil or Not? (Fish Skeleton)

• Fossil

• Not a Fossil

Multiple Select

Fossil or Not? (Rock)

• Fossil

• Not a Fossil

Multiple Select

Fossil or Not? (Imprint of a fish in a rock)

• Fossil

• Not a Fossil

Multiple Select

Fossil or Not? (Animal footprint in mud)

• Fossil

• Not a Fossil

Multiple Select

Fossil or Not? (Dinosaur skeleton)

• Fossil

• Not a Fossil

Lesson Wrap Up

"What are Fossils?"

• Evidence of once living things from long ago.

• Fossils are extremely hard rock, which helps them stand the test of time.

• Fossils can be fossilized footprints or molds of the body of a once living thing.

• Fossils can teach us many things about living things from long ago.