Year 3 Rocks: How are fossils formed?

Content Name

Year 3 Rocks: How are fossils formed?

Content Type

WOW Lesson

Description

Join Science expert, Nicky Waller, as she shares a lesson designed to support children's understanding of how fossils are formed. In this lesson, you will make an imprint and cast fossil and explain how these are formed in real life over many years.

Curriculum

• Country

  England

  Key Stage:

  Key Stage 2

  Years:

  Year 3

  Subjects:

  • Science

  Topics:

  • Rocks

  Programmes of Study:

  • describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock
  • recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter

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