This year our school has been lucky enough to be chosen by the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum to partner with on how to improve learning in science. This partnership will afford many opportunities to our school, teachers, and students all year long. The teachers at St. Sylvester have already attended a few workshops hosted by the museum. Last week, two of the educational directors at the museum came to teach a lesson on fossils to our second grade class.
First, they presented actual fossils to each of the small groups of second graders to examine and discuss. There were remains from both plants and animals identified.
Then, the students listened to a description of the steps in which a fossil forms. The last portion of the activity was when each of the second graders made their own"fossils." Everyone put clay on the bottom of a cup and then pressed a seashell into the clay to make an imprint. Later, we filled each imprint and cup with plaster. Once these are set, the students will remove the clay and the imprint left on the plaster will act as a fossil. Look for these "fossils" to come home sometime this week and ask your son or daughter how it was formed!
First, they presented actual fossils to each of the small groups of second graders to examine and discuss. There were remains from both plants and animals identified.
Then, the students listened to a description of the steps in which a fossil forms. The last portion of the activity was when each of the second graders made their own"fossils." Everyone put clay on the bottom of a cup and then pressed a seashell into the clay to make an imprint. Later, we filled each imprint and cup with plaster. Once these are set, the students will remove the clay and the imprint left on the plaster will act as a fossil. Look for these "fossils" to come home sometime this week and ask your son or daughter how it was formed!
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