What are Fossils?
2nd Grade•30 minutes
Learning Objective
I can describe what a fossil is and how it is formed.
Key Concepts
Paleontologists are scientists who study all kinds of things that lived a really long time ago, like reptiles, mammals, plants, and even tiny bacteria.
Fossils are the remains of animals and plants from long ago that slowly became preserved in rocks.
Paleontologists use tools like picks, shovels, and big diggers to unearth fossils, and then they study them in a laboratory.
Practice Questions
This lesson includes 3 practice questions to reinforce learning.
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1. What is a fossil?
2. Name three things that can become fossils.
3. Imagine you are a paleontologist. You found a footprint in a rock. What could this fossil tell you?
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