Fossils

A Link to Our Past

Fossils

Curriculum standard: The learner will be able to describe how fossils provide information about the types of organisms that lived in the past.

Fossils

Writing assignment:

Students will write one paragraph on how fossils give us information on the past.

"Fossils are the remains of..."

Fossils are the remains of animals and plants, or the record of their presence, preserved in the rocks of the Earth.

"You are now a part..."

You are now a part of an archeological dig. Look at the following pictures of items that were found and deter-mine what type of society used these items.

"Types of societies"

Types of societies

1. Hunter-gatherer

2. Farming

3. Fishing

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Which society used these?

Fishing society

What do these items look like?

A bear tooth and an arrowhead would be used by what society?

Hunter-gatherers

What society would use these items?

"A farming society would use..."

A farming society would use a bone hoe to plant crops and baskets to harvest them.

"We can use fossils to..."

We can use fossils to determine what kind of societies existed in the past. By examining these finds, we can learn more about the history of our land and the people who lived here.

Fossils

Writing assignment:

Now write a paragraph about how fossils give us information on the past.


	Curriculum standard: The learner will be able to describe how fossils provide information about the types of organisms that lived in the past.


	Writing assignment:
	Students will write one paragraph on how fossils give us information on the past.


	Fossils are the remains of animals and plants, or the record of their presence, preserved in the rocks of the Earth.


	You are now a part of an archeological dig. Look at the following pictures of items that were found and deter-mine what type of society used these items.


	A farming society would use a bone hoe to plant crops and baskets to harvest them.


	We can use fossils to determine what kind of societies existed in the past. By examining these finds, we can learn more about the history of our land and the people who lived here.


	Writing assignment:
	Now write a paragraph about how fossils give us information on the past.