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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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?
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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- 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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