Elementary schoolers investigate how fossils are created by reproducing the process of creating an impression and filling it with a hardening material. The art lessons from this source are just fantastic! The lesson plan is well-written...

Students investigate what a fossil is and how it came to be.  In this fossil lesson plan, students examine pictures of skeletons and identify characteristics that can and cannot be determined by a fossil.  Students complete...

Fourth graders make inferences and interpretations from sets of dinosaur tracks. They describe Utah fossils and how they were formed. Partners trade their sketches of tracks and try to guess which dinosaur it belonged to.