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Explore Fossils: Types, Formation, and Significance

Learn about the four types of fossils - imprint, mold, cast, and preserved part - and how they are formed. Discover what fossils can reveal about past life and environments through engaging songs and explanations.

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Explore Fossils: Types, Formation, and Significance

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  1. Fossils ~ Objective: Define four types of fossils and how they are made.

  2. Journal Entry • When you think of fossils, what pictures come to your mind?

  3. Fossils • They are the remains of dead plants and animals from a long time ago.

  4. There are four types of fossils! • Imprint Mold Cast Preserved Part

  5. What are Imprint Fossils? • Imprint fossils are like your footprints. • An imprint is made when a plant or animal leaves a print in the soil. The soil then hardens. The imprint looks like the plant or animal.

  6. Examples of Imprint Fossils

  7. What are Molds? • Molds begin when an animal dies.

  8. The remains of the dead plants and animals get buried in the mud, and the mud hardens.

  9. After a long time, water dissolves the plant or animal remains and a hole is left. The hole looks just like the plant or animal that died.

  10. Examples of Fossil Molds

  11. What are Casts? • When a mold is later filled with soil, and the soil hardens, it becomes a cast.

  12. Examples of Cast Fossils

  13. What are Preserved Parts? • When plants and animals have hardened and turned to stone. • This takes a long time to happen

  14. Review with a Song!!! Written By: Ms. Rich Sung By: A Class Full of Paleontologists

  15. What Can Fossils Tell Us about Life Long Ago?

  16. Fossils Can Tell Us Where Plants and Animals Lived.

  17. Fossils Can Tell Us about Weather Conditions in the Past. • Paleontologists found the remains of many plants and animals in this region. What can that tell you about the weather in the past?

  18. Review with a Song!!! Written By: Ms. Rich Sung By: A Class Full of Paleontologists

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