No Prep Fossils Activity

In this fun and NO PREP fossils activity, students learn more about important fossils in each era of Earth’s history and then use their knowledge of the law of superposition to place fossils in their relative positions in Earth’s history.

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In this activity, students will:

• READ simple facts about 20 different fossils that are representative of their era.
• ANSWER simple questions about the fossils.
• CUT AND PASTE each fossil into their proper layer of Earth based on their age.
• Answer follow-up questions by making CLAIMS BASED ON EVIDENCE from the activity.

Teacher Notes:

• Includes an answer key.
• Please note that this no prep fossils activity is not editable.
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Related Standards:

• NGSS MS-LS4-1: Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past.
• NGSS MS-ESS1-4: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth’s 4.6-billion-year-old history. Emphasis is on how analyses of rock formations and the fossils they contain are used to establish relative ages of major events in Earth’s history.