Darwin the fossil hunter

Learn about Darwin’s fossils and write a silly poem to remember which ones he found and what he thought about them.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To find out about the fossils that Darwin found.
• To write a humorous rhyme about Darwin's fossils.

Children will:

• Generate and address research questions.
• Understand why some animals become large and why they could go extinct.
• Apply some of the research they have done in a creative writing format.

• Background on Darwin and fossils
• Darwin's fossils
• Giant animals happy families

• Non-Fiction books for research and internet access

Darwin, rocks, geology. palaeontology and fossils from darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk
Darwin's principles based on looking at fossils from nyu.edu
Darwin's first clues from ngm.nationalgeographic.com
Article about why some animals become big from slate.com
Article about Darwin's giant sloth from beagleproject.wordpress.com
Page of silly rhymes from activityvillage.co.uk
Limericks from brownielocks.com
Limericks about fossils from the fossilforum.com
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