Lessons below address this concept: Scientists study fossils and how and when they were formed.
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Lesson Title (Description) Grade Level Lesson Type
Tennis Shoe Detectives
Students make observations, examine data, and form hypotheses about a set of footprints and what they can tell us.
3-5 Classroom activity
Xenosmilus
Students play the roles of paleontologists on a dig. They “unearth” a few fossils at a time and attempt to reconstruct the animal the fossils represent.
3-5 Classroom activity
 


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