Fossil Excavation

Students research fossils. In this guided reading lesson, students explore informational texts to research fossil formation. Students create an anticipation guide and hypothesize about dinosaur extinction.

Students explore how scientists examine the past and use rock layers with fossils to understand the past.  In this excavation lesson students divide into groups and complete an activity. 

Students study fossils and the history of dinosaurs. In this fossils instructional activity, students read a book about dinosaurs and then complete a cookie fossil excavation. Students study related vocabulary terms and create their own...

In this excavation procedure worksheet, students determine the roles of group members for an excavation of a sample box containing buried bones. They complete 9 short answer questions before beginning the excavation.

In this professions in paleantology activity, 3rd graders match jobs with six descriptions, then find eleven tools used in searching for fossils in a word search, answers included.

Fossils ... from space? Science scholars discover evidence in a limestone quarry that helped researchers learn about a meteor shower that lasted hundreds of thousands of years through an interesting video from Brain Scoop's Fossils and...

A paleontologist finds a fossil, but then what happens? An engaging video explains what happens to fossils once they make it back to the lab. It then demonstrates three different ways of excavating the fossil from the matrix. 

Students recall prior knowledge of the process of fossilization. In this fossils instructional activity, students first create and at a later date, recover fossils. Students understand the painstaking process of recovering a fossil....

Students research and develop a presentation about a famous fossil hunter/archaeologist. In this fossil hunter/archaeologist lesson, students listen to a reading of Don Brown's, Rare Treasure: Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries....

Students have probably already studied dinosaurs in school, but they may not have learned much about the process by which paleontologists locate, excavate, and study dinosaurs. They write journal entries pretending they are on a dinosaur...