The Great Fossil Find
Students will go on an imaginary fossil hunt, making observations and predictions following each step. You will have to cut apart the fossil parts of the animal that can be downloaded on the site. Students will work in groups and as a class they will take out a few bones at a time. This process goes along with a story that you will read aloud to the class. This is a great inquiry activity allowing the students to see how paleontologists use fossil findings to interpret the type of animal it might have been. Students are able to analyze fossil pictures and make predictions about the type of animal and make changes to their predictions as new evidence is discovered.
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