Teaching Preschool About Fossils!

In Science, our Third Grade class has learned all about fossils and how animals, plants and people are very different than they once were.

But did you know that there are different types of fossils?  The third graders do!  And they know this so well that we invited Ms. Julie and Ms. Denise's Clifford preschool classroom up to our class so we could teach them about imprint fossils! 

And not only did we teach them, but we made our own fossils!

Here is a video of Angelina giving us the steps to this project.

 

Here you can see Caroline and Izzy stirring the plaster of Paris and water together

to make a thick paste in order for our fossil to imprint.

  

Here is Angelina and Joey making their fossil of a lamb!

Here is Joey removing the lamb and you can see the imprint it made!

  

And finally, here are a variety of photos of our time together!

Oscar (3rd) helping Ross and Alex (preK) get ready to make their fossils.

Maddie (3rd) assisting Keira (preK) with mixing in the water.

Katie and Jane (3rd) assisting Sabine and Vonne (preK) with mixing up their plaster.

Delaney showing Andrew how to get the plaster ready to make his fossil.

Meghan (preK), Maddie (3rd), and Keira (preK) working on their fossils.

Oscar talking about fossil imprints with Ross.

Kaya (3rd) and Jacqueline (preK) finalizing their fossil imprint.