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Brandon Appleton

Make a Fossil Cast - Fun Science Fair Projects for Kids - 1 views

    • Brandon Appleton
       
      Have students describe the create their own fossil. Have students who create their fossil to provide a story about they fossil. If students struggle with writing have them present something orally to give them another option if they struggle in their writing. 
    • Susie Beesley
       
      I have a fossilized imprint of one of my son's hands that he made in school. It makes a nice keepsake while also teaching about fossils.
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    Great activity to engage students in fossils. Students can create fossils and create a story to help demonstrate how fossils are good pieces of evidence that explain what happened in the past. 
Jessica Buell

Rock Record: What are Fossils? | Education.com - 1 views

    • Jessica Buell
       
      3.2.4 Identify fossils and describe how they provide evidence about the plants and animals that lived long ago and the nature of their environment at that time. 3rd grade
    • Jessica Buell
       
      Extensions: Be sure to go over vocabulary and different terms involving fossils, using illustrations to show the definition as well as the words. Extensions: There are a lot of ways you can extend this activity. For Kindergarten or 1st grade you can extend this activity by creating a center of a dinosaur dig and have the students make their own fossil as well as draw a picture of the fossil they "dug up" and writing a simple sentence about what they think their fossil is.
    • Jessica Buell
       
      Adaptions: You can adapt this lesson for ELL and special need students by having the students describe their fossil and you can create a timeline of the board and have the ELL and special needs students draw a picture of their fossil and place it on the timeline of when they think it lived.
Krista Hirr

Make a Fossil From Glue! | Education.com - 1 views

    • Krista Hirr
       
      To connect this activity to writing, have children make up stories that go along with the fossils they create. They can write as if they found the fossil or write about the place and time the fossil is from.
    • Susie Beesley
       
      Fossils are also an Earth Science topic. See standard 3.2.4 for example.
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    After exploring fossils (what they are and what we learn from them) have children use this project to create their own fossil.
Jessica Buell

Learn the Layers: Become a Dirt Expert | Education.com - 1 views

    • Jessica Buell
       
      I have changed this to a 3rd grade activity. 3.2.4 Identify fossils and describe how they provide evidence about the plants and animals that lived long ago and the nature of their environment at that time.
    • Jessica Buell
       
      Adaptions: you can adapt this lesson by having ELL and special need students explore in the dirt and sketch what they find in each layer and what layer they found it in making it into a "Dirt Journal" They will learn a lot just by exploring in the dirt and talking wtih friends about what they find. Extensions: You can extend this activity to older students by creating "dig sites" for each student to dig and identify the different layers. They can futher research types of rocks they find and identify what type of rock it is.
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