Students explore types of fossils and discover how sediment affects fossil preservation. They focus their study on trace fossils and create their own using sediment, water, and a small organism such as a snail or lizard. Students use...

Fourth graders do 5 different lab stations to explore rocks, minerals, and fossils.

For this fossils worksheet, students create their own casts, molds, imprints, and embedded fossils. Then students complete a fossil comparison chart. This worksheet has 12 fill in the blank questions.

Seventh graders study the law of superposition by creating models of fossils in layers of rock. They examine how fossils are usually found in sedimentary rock which leads to the study of geologic history in those rocks.