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Lesson Plan

Fossil Exploration and Creation

Subject Science
Grades 3-5

Introduction

What is a fossil? What do fossils look like? In this lesson, students will learn about fossils and create some of their own! They will then write a short story about how their fossils came to be fossilized.

Learning Objectives

3-LS4-1

Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.

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