Year 3 Rocks: How are fossils formed?
Year 3 Rocks: How are fossils formed?
WOW Lesson
Join Science expert, Nicky Waller, as she shares a lesson designed to support children's understanding of how fossils are formed. In this lesson, you will make an imprint and cast fossil and explain how these are formed in real life over many years.
Key Stage 2
Year 3
- Science
- Rocks
- describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock
- recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter