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Grade 3 Science · World 4: Fossil Finders · Level 24
Fossils Tell About Places
Use fossils as evidence of past environments (sea shells on a mountain mean water once covered it).
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 24
- Fossils tell about places, too. Each living thing needs a certain kind of home.
- If scientists find fish fossils on top of a dry mountain, water must have covered that place long ago!
- Palm leaf fossils in a very cold place mean it was once much warmer there. Places change over a very, very long time.
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.