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Lesson Planning

Teaching

Activities

  1. Engage (through role play) with the great fossil hunter Mary Anning by asking questions (Yr3&4).
  2. Learn how fossils are made and record the stages through sequencing and illustrating (Yr3) or through writing and illustrating (Yr4).
  3. Make their own “fossil” of a shell using a plasticine mould and plaster of Paris (Yr3&4).
  4. Handle real fossils and rehearse the stages of fossil formation through oral retelling (Yr3&4).

Investigation - analysing secondary sources
The next part of the programme will be all about fossils. Learn about the life and work of fossil hunter Mary Anning and discover how fossils are made. Make a plaster fossil.
Year 3 - Tell the story of Mary Anning and her discoveries through role play and explanation.
Year 4 - Explain the stages of fossil formation using a sequence of illustrations to help.

Vocabulary
Fossil, ichthyosaur, plesiosaur, ammonite, sediment, minerals, mould, cast

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