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Grade 3 Science · World 4: Fossil Finders · Level 23
Fossils and Living Things Today
Compare a fossil with living animals and plants to tell what it was like.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 23
- Scientists compare fossils with living things today. This fern fossil looks a lot like a fern growing now, so ferns lived long ago too!
- Some fossils are of animals that are extinct, meaning none are alive anymore, like dinosaurs and mammoths.
- Mammoth fossils have huge tusks and teeth like an elephant's. That tells us mammoths were large animals related to elephants.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:
- S3E2.a — Construct an argument from observations of fossils (authentic or reproductions) to communicate how they serve as evidence of past organisms and the environments in which they lived.