What are fossils?

Science
Indicator II
Boston International School

Objective
Identify the different kinds of landforms in Earth to
understand their structure and why they change.
Learning objective: Describe the structure of the Earth
and the forces that change its surface forming fossils.

Biblical Principle
Job 28:5 The earth, from which food comes, is
transformed below as by fire;
Through this verse the students will understand that there
is a layer of the Earth where people can plant and grow
crops and they will know that there is an inner layer of
the Earth that has lava, which it actually helps forming
fossils.

Vocabulary
Fossil
Fossil records

FOSSILS
People today know about many plants and
animals because of fossils.
A fossil is the remains of an organism that
lived long time ago.

Fossilformation
First, sediment covers an
organism.
Then, the sediment hardens into
rock,preservingthefossilshape.
Later,thesoftpartsoforganisms
breakdownquicklyanddecay.

Mostfossilsareformedfromonlythehardpartsof
livingthings,suchasshells,bonesandteeth.

ClassActivity
Watchthefollowingvideosandtakenotes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rkGu0BItKM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EaL8y-mVTo

CLASSACTIVITY
fill in with the steps of fossil formation in the correct
order.
Minerals fill the space.
Soft parts of the animal decay.
A fossil of the hard parts of the sea animal forms in the
rock.
A small sea animal with a shell dies and is covered in
sediments.
A space forms in the rock where the soft parts used to
be.

 Narrative Writing
Suppose you are hiking near a cliff. You see
a large bone trapped in rock. Write a story
that describes the animal whose fossil you
found.
Tell how you think it lived and how the fossil
formed.

ReadingBook
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