Types of Fossils Lesson with Google Slides, Notes, Worksheet, and Answer Key

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3rd - 6th

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Archaeology, Biology, Earth Sciences

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Worksheets, Lesson

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NGSSMS-ESS1-4

NGSS4-ESS1-1

NGSS3-LS4-1

NGSSMS-LS4-1

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24 pages

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This lesson explains what a fossil is and explores 4 different types of fossils - mold, cast, trace, and true form - including how they form with examples of each.

This resource includes:

a Google Slides lesson about the 4 types of fossils
a notes page (print and digital, color and black line)
a worksheet (print an digital, color and black line)
an answer key

Go through the Google Slides presentation as students take notes on the included notes page. After the lesson, students use their notes to complete the worksheet. The worksheet describes a fossil (with an illustration). Students read the description and use their notes to decide which of the 4 types of fossils it is. An answer key is also included.

If you prefer to assign this lesson virtually, digital versions of the notes and worksheet are included at the end of the Google Slides lesson.

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24 pages

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Teaching Duration

1 hour

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NGSSMS-ESS1-4

Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth’s 4.6-billion-year-old history. Emphasis is on how analyses of rock formations and the fossils they contain are used to establish relative ages of major events in Earth’s history. Examples of Earth’s major events could range from being very recent (such as the last Ice Age or the earliest fossils of homo sapiens) to very old (such as the formation of Earth or the earliest evidence of life). Examples can include the formation of mountain chains and ocean basins, the evolution or extinction of particular living organisms, or significant volcanic eruptions. Assessment does not include recalling the names of specific periods or epochs and events within them.

NGSS4-ESS1-1

Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time. Examples of evidence from patterns could include rock layers with marine shell fossils above rock layers with plant fossils and no shells, indicating a change from land to water over time; and, a canyon with different rock layers in the walls and a river in the bottom, indicating that over time a river cut through the rock. Assessment does not include specific knowledge of the mechanism of rock formation or memorization of specific rock formations and layers. Assessment is limited to relative time.

NGSS3-LS4-1

Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago. Examples of data could include type, size, and distributions of fossil organisms. Examples of fossils and environments could include marine fossils found on dry land, tropical plant fossils found in Arctic areas, and fossils of extinct organisms. Assessment does not include identification of specific fossils or present plants and animals. Assessment is limited to major fossil types and relative ages.

NGSSMS-LS4-1

Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past. Emphasis is on finding patterns of changes in the level of complexity of anatomical structures in organisms and the chronological order of fossil appearance in the rock layers. Assessment does not include the names of individual species or geological eras in the fossil record.

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