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Fossil Click-n-Learn

Fossil Click-n-Learn. Welcome 4 th Graders! Click on the arrow to begin. If you ever want to return to the beginning click on the house. http://www.maropeng.co.za/images/uploads/fossil_lg.jpg, http://www.soil-net.com/album/Soils_Rocks/slides/Fossil%20Amonite.jpg.

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Fossil Click-n-Learn

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  1. Fossil Click-n-Learn Welcome 4th Graders! Click on the arrow to begin. If you ever want to return to the beginning click on the house. http://www.maropeng.co.za/images/uploads/fossil_lg.jpg, http://www.soil-net.com/album/Soils_Rocks/slides/Fossil%20Amonite.jpg

  2. Remember how rocks can form layers… Let’s speed up time and watch them form! Ta da!

  3. Which layer is the oldest? Click it.

  4. Which layer is the oldest? Click it. Correct! The layer on the bottom is the oldest.

  5. Which layer is the oldest? Click it. Oops! Try again. Click the button to go back.

  6. Fossils can form in between the layers… • When plants and animals die they may get trapped in the sediment • After long periods of time they can become fossils http://lovingthebigisland.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/fossil-fish-1.jpg http://www.geosociety.org/graphics/gv/PikesPeak/03FossilWasp.jpg

  7. Fossils teach us about the history of Earth… • Scientists can look at the animals that live today and compare them to the fossils we find from long ago. Let’s Check it Out!

  8. Megalodon • This is another tooth from a Megalodon! WOW! It is bigger than 2 hands together! This shark lived millions of years ago. Let’s compare Megalodon to the largest living shark today… http://www.fossilien.de/seiten/haizaehne/megalodon-.jpg

  9. More Teeth… These are teeth are from a Great White Shark That means Megladon must have been… http://files.tellmewhereonearth.com/Photos%20Sharks/greatwhites-stratosphere.JPG

  10. HUGE!!! MEGALODON Great White Shark Human http://www.fossilien.de/seiten/haizaehne/megalodon_weisserhai.jpg

  11. Let’s check out another fossil • Have you ever seen a beaver? • Maybe in real life or in a picture? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:American_Beaver.jpg http://static.open.salon.com/files/beaver1231206221.jpg

  12. During the Ice Age there was a beaver that looked a little different… It could grow up to 8 feet long and weigh over two hundred pounds! It’s front teeth were 6 inches long! Wow! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Giant-beaver-fieldmuseum.jpg

  13. Look how big the skull is!! Giant Beaver Today’s Beaver http://www.boneclones.com/images/bc-071a-lg.jpg

  14. Paleontologists can also look for things that are the same from fossils…. This is a fossil of a dinosaur Does it look like it might have had feathers to you? YES NO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sinornithosaurus_Dave_NGMC91.jpg

  15. Paleontologists can also look for things that are the same from fossils…. This is a fossil of a dinosaur Does it look like it might have had feathers to you? Paleontologist started to find more and more dinosaur fossils that had feathers…. YES NO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sinornithosaurus_Dave_NGMC91.jpg

  16. Now they know that some dinosaurs probably had feathers! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Deinonychus_BW.jpg Weird!! http://planetdinosaur.com/site/images/stories/dinosaurs/Sinornithosaurus_feathered_dinosaurs.jpg

  17. The first birds probably looked something like this… http://www.dinosaurfact.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Archaeopteryx.jpg

  18. Paleontologist have used fossils to discover that the birds we have today probably evolved or came from dinosaurs http://whatbird.wbu.com/img/4/707/image.aspx http://www.muralsforkids.com/images/BlueJay.jpg http://pelotes.jea.com/AnimalFact/Birds/hkrdtal2.jpg

  19. Let’s look at one more!!

  20. Look how the horses have changed too Click on the horse that you think is living today

  21. Look how the horses have changed too Click on the horse that you think is living today CORRECT! Today’s horses are much bigger than the first horses

  22. Look how the horses have changed too Click on the horse that you think is living today Oops! Try again. Remember how small the horse jaw fossil you saw in science class was…

  23. Wow! When we use fossils we can learn a lot about the different animals that used to walk the Earth.

  24. CLICK BELOW TO GO BACK TO THE WEBSITE! Fourth Grade Fossils

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