Curated OER
Science: Making Trace Fossils
Young scholars explore types of fossils and discover how sediment affects fossil preservation. They focus their study on trace fossils and create their own using sediment, water, and a small organism such as a snail or lizard. Students...
Curated OER
Fossils
In this fossils worksheet, students review the different types of fossils including index and trace fossils. This worksheet has 6 matching and 9 true or false questions.
Children's Museum
Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Geo Mysteries: Broken Necklace Mystery
A fun fossil activity for younger students.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:4 Investigation 4 Dinosaurs Tracks
Fourth graders will make inferences and interpretations from sets of dinosaur tracks.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: What Can Fossil Footprints Tell Us?
In this investigation, students examine an image of multiple fossil footprint tracks. They try to construct an explanation for the events that created the pattern of tracks. Even though students come up with different explanations for...
University of California
University of California Museum of Paleontology: Fossil Evidence
Understanding Evolution provides evidence for evolution using fossils. There are also links to lesson plans.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Fossils Moldy Oldies
A good introduction to different types of fossils and how they form. There are also directions for making three different models of fossils.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Types of Fossils
Describes four different kinds of fossils and how they form.