Pictures from Rocks and Fossils workshops

Year 4 at Belgrave Academy, Stoke, Sept 2013

Fossil Hunt - children have to pick out fossils from a box of rocks
(mya = million years ago)
 
Looking for fossils in a box collected from Whitby - ammonites, belemnites and bivalves
Jurassic, 187mya
 
Fossil plants collected from New Hey Quarry, Lancs
Carboniferous (315mya)
 
Corals, brachiopods, crinoids and trilobites from Dudley
Silurian, 425mya
 
Corals, brachiopods and crinoids from Birley Hill and quarry, N. Wales
Carboniferous, 330mya


 
 
  Fossil ID and Drawing - children have to identify a fossil of a particular type,
e.g. which species of ammonite or trilobite, then draw it
 
Identifying a trilobite, using a guide
 
 
Identifying a plant fossil, using a hand lens
 
 
Drawing a stigmaria (fossil tree root)
 
 
Drawing corals
 

 
 

Fossil Drawings by Year 3 at Chorlton CE Primary, Dec 2013

  Trilobite
 
 

Ammonite