In Year 3, the children have been learning about how fossils are formed and why fossils are both interesting and useful. The children have learnt that fossils are the stone remains of animals or plants that were once living and are at least 10,000 years old. Each class discovered that fossils can give us information about animals that lived a long time ago, when and where it lived and what it ate. We also thought about how fossils can help us learn about the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. Then, we had a go at being palaeontologists. The children took part in mini excavation and retrieved fossils (chocolate chips) from stones (cookies) using toothpicks!
