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Pre Assessment
Fossils

Examples of what children think about fossils.

A fossil is an old object that was buried under the earth a long time ago and rocks have formed around it, so it is preserved.
A fossil can be a footprint that was preserved by rock forming around it.
Fossils are the remains or imprint of an object.
Fossils might have formed in muddy places where an animal got trapped in the mud and hardened.
Fossils might be formed when oceans or lakes dry up and fish or shells get left on or in the ground.
When fossils start out to become fossils, they form mud around them and it keeps building up and starts drying out to form rock.
Fossils can show different extinct organisms.
Fossils can tell us something about why they are gone [extinct].
Fossils can tell us that Earth contained life long ago and that it is very old.