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How footprints get made

Topics Year 4/5

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Objectives

Science

  • Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago.

Art

  • Improve their mastery of art and design techniques.

Lesson Planning

Learn about how fossil footprints are made and how we investigate them. Make your own plaster cast footprints.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To learn about how footprints get fossilised and what they can tell us.
  • To try different techniques to record footprints.

Children will:

  • Explain how fossil footprints are made.
  • Explain how fossil footprints are recorded.
  • Record footprints.

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