How fossils form
Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time
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Practise the bounded task in How fossils form; see exact limits before inferring broader coverage.
Practise the bounded task in How fossils form; see exact limits before inferring broader coverage.
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How are fossils formed?
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- Explain that rock layers (strata) form over time, with the oldest at the bottom
- Describe how fossils in different layers provide evidence of organisms that lived at different times
- Use patterns in rock formations to explain how a landscape has changed over millions of years
“If your child sees layers of rock in a cliff face, can they explain that the bottom layers are oldest and any fossils tell us what lived there long ago?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- Space Systems & Earth's History
- Age range
- Ages 9–10
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