Treehut
Suzy's World: What Is a Fossil?
This site, which is a personal site from Suzy's World by Suzy Cato, explores fossils. Find out some basic facts about fossils, including who studies them and what they are made of. A fun experiment is also included.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: The Fossil Record
This lesson plan explores the fossils of animals that lived in the ancient oceans such as in the area now known as the Burgess Shale in the western Canadian Rocky Mountains.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Fossils: Lesson 2
This lesson provides a timeline of fossils while also discussing the different types, locations, and geology of various fossils. It is 2 of 6 in the series titled "Fossils."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Fossils: Lesson 4
This lesson provides a timeline of fossils while also discussing the different types, locations, and geology of various fossils. It is 4 of 6 in the series titled "Fossils."
EL Education
El Education: Get a Clue
This nonfiction children's book was created by 1st grade students at the Genesee Valley Community Charter School in Rochester, New York, as part of a learning expedition on fossils and local geological history. The expedition consisted...
Seeker
Seeker: 142 Million Year Old Dino Footprints Found
Article reports on the discovery of two fossilized dinosaur footprints in Germany and what researchers have been able to learn from the find.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Investigation 2 Simulating Fossil Formation
This lesson plan includes directions for 5 different activities for making a variety of fossil types. The fossils included in all five activities are casts, petrification fossils, imprints and preserved fossils. The labs require a number...
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Dinosaurs: Archaeopteryx Lithographica
Is it a feathered dinosaur, or the ancestor of birds? Find out about the Archaeopteryx lithographica whose fossil remains show feathers similar to that of a bird, and whose skeleton resembles that of a dinosaur.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: What Is a Fossil?
A brief summary and definition of what fossils are.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Under What Conditions Do Fossils Form?
Learn about the conditions required for fossils to form naturally.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: How Do Paleontologists Identify Fossils?
Learn about the methods that paleontologists use to identify fossils.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Fossils
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces students to the different types of fossils.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Dinosaurs
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart can be used to spring discussions on fossils, geography, adaptations, as well as different kinds of dinosaurs. This can be a companion to The Magic School Bus chapter book, Dinosaur...
Other
Strange Science: Palenotology Timeline
A large timeline containing major events in the history of paleontology and biology.
Other
Mammoth Site Geology
This is the website for The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The Mammoth Site boasts the largest concentration of mammoths in the world. You can tour this indoor active dig site and view Ice Age fossils. The site offers a video...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Fossils: Footprints Across Time
Smithsonian Education presents "Fossils: Footprints Across Time." Teachers can download this teaching package that introduces students to the study of fossils. Students will discover what fossils can teach us about the Earth as it was...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Adaptations and Environmental Change an Assessment
Use this assessment to see what your students have learned about adaptations. This type of assessment allows students to observe and make open-ended claims backed up by evidence. Included are a power point presentation, student quiz, and...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Fossils
A site for students to explore the Earth science subject of fossils including the ways fossils form, types such as trace and body, fun facts, collecting, and where they are found.
BBC
Bbc Newsround: Week of 1 13 14: Dinosaur Bones Found in Saudi Arabia
Article reports on dinosaur bones which have been discovered for the first time in Saudi Arabia.
BBC
Bbc Newsround: Amazing Giant Turtle Bone Discovery
Article reports on the discovery of a giant turtle bone.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Types of Fossils
Describes four different kinds of fossils and how they form.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Fossils
What is a fossil? Find out how fossils are formed, where fossils are found, and dating a fossil.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Dinosaur Facts and Information
Read a brief history of dinosaurs and how fossils are formed. Learn about the three main dinosaur periods, plant-eating dinosaurs, meat-eating dinosaurs, the end of dinosaurs, and other interesting facts.