Fossils Lesson plan: The Great Fossil Hunters

These practical science lessons get pupils creating their own fossils, which they then learn to excavate and identify.

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Ever wondered what it might be like to be a fossil hunter? How would you excavate a fossil without damaging it and how would you identify the fossil? How is a fossil formed? In this practical science activity your students create their own fossils encased within a sedimentary rock and then have the responsibility of carefully excavating and identifying each other’s work. Has your class got the skills and patience?

Objectives and curriculum links
These lessons enable students to:

• Consider how living things have changed over millions of years (evolution).
• Be able to describe how fossils are formed.
• Explain what we can learn from fossils.
• Use practical skills and creativity to make a model that describes a scientific idea.