Explaining Fossils For Kids Lovetoknow Mold and cast fossils (stone fossils) the majority of fossils are formed by a method called mold and cast. mold and cast fossils are formed in the following manner: an animal, such as a dinosaur, dies and falls to the bottom of a riverbed. the flesh of the animal rots away or is eaten by smaller creatures, leaving only the bones (skeleton) behind. When an entire type of animal dies out, they are extinct. extinct animals are gone forever. fossils help us understand why an animal went extinct. some extinctions were caused by sudden changes in an organism’s habitat such as floods, wildfires, or other natural events. hunting, habitat loss, and pollution are common reasons why organisms go.
About Fossils For Kids Learn about the different kinds of fossils, how they form, and what they can tell us about our planet's history.we hope you are enjoying our large selection. 2. digfield school has a series of fossil lesson plans that can be found here. 3. in this activity titled “ the great fossil find, ” students act like paleontologists and assemble fossil bones to determine the type of animal. it has a fun script to go along with it. my middle schoolers loved it!. Hands on fossil activity 1: fossil dig (20 minutes) set up an excavation site in the classroom or outdoors, using sand or soil mixed with small buried fossils or replica artifacts. divide students into small groups and provide each group with excavation tools such as brushes and small shovels. instruct students to carefully excavate the fossils. Casts and molds a cast or a mold fossil is an impression of a living organism. they are made when an organism dissolves in the earth and leaves a hollow mold behind. the mold is then filled in by minerals leaving something like a statue of the organism behind. freezing some fossils are preserved in ice. as long as the ice doesn't melt the.
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