Month: July 2025

Trace and Body fossils

    • LI: To understand how scientists know so much about dinosaurs.

  • LI: To recognise different types of fossils and how they are formed.

 

For inquiry we are learning about dinosaurs, paleontologist and different types of fossils.  We have learnt about body and trace fossils and something I have learnt about trace and body fossils that trace fossils are preserved remains of the ancient animal and its skeleton, these fossils help us learn what it was like over a 100 million years ago. Trace fossils are finds of life or animals which includes footprints,trails tooth marks and fossilised animals, droppings and other different finds.

Paleontology

LI: Understand the systematic process of scientific excavation and the importance of accurate data collection in paleontology.

We needed to create a 50 word summary that tells us what paleontology is and what palaotologists do.
We also needed to include a statement that tells us why fossils finds are important and how the past informs us today.

Mary Anning

LI: To create a DLO that tells Mary Annings story from her perspective story.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before we take part in our own dinosaur dig LS2 were challenged to capture the story behind Mary Anning, a pioneering fossil hunter and paleontologist during the early 19th century.  Mary Anning did discover the first almost complete skeleton of a plesiosaur, a marine reptile, in 1823.   She also nearly completed the ichthyosaur skeleton another marine reptile.  Who was also knowned as on of the first paleontologist.