Lesson Planning
Learn how someone’s footprints can tell us a great deal about their height, gait and speed.
Teaching Outcomes:
- To find out about fossilised human footprints.
- To work out how tall people were from their footprints, and how fast they were moving.
Children will:
- Explain what fossilised human footprints tell us.
- Apply the footprint to height ratio to predict height.
- Apply the measurement of gait and speed from footprint shape and spacing.