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    This lesson plan introduces second grade students to fossils. Students will learn about fossils and their importance for understanding extinct plants and animals. They will create their own fossils by pressing objects into modeling clay. The lesson involves reading passages in the science textbook, discussing vocabulary words, drawing a fern fossil, and completing worksheet activities. The goal is for students to understand what fossils are, how they form over time, and how they provide information about the past.

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    This lesson plan introduces second grade students to fossils. Students will learn about fossils and their importance for understanding extinct plants and animals. They will create their own fossils by pressing objects into modeling clay. The lesson involves reading passages in the science textbook, discussing vocabulary words, drawing a fern fossil, and completing worksheet activities. The goal is for students to understand what fossils are, how they form over time, and how they provide information about the past.

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    This lesson plan introduces second grade students to fossils. Students will learn about fossils and their importance for understanding extinct plants and animals. They will create their own fossils by pressing objects into modeling clay. The lesson involves reading passages in the science textbook, discussing vocabulary words, drawing a fern fossil, and completing worksheet activities. The goal is for students to understand what fossils are, how they form over time, and how they provide information about the past.

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    Educ 344 Science Fusion Inquiry Lesson Plan

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    This lesson plan introduces second grade students to fossils. Students will learn about fossils and their importance for understanding extinct plants and animals. They will create their own fossils by pressing objects into modeling clay. The lesson involves reading passages in the science textbook, discussing vocabulary words, drawing a fern fossil, and completing worksheet activities. The goal is for students to understand what fossils are, how they form over time, and how they provide information about the past.

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    Megan Connor and Kaitlyn Maloney

    EDUC 344
    Fall 2015

    Title
    Subject Area
    Grade Level
    Summary of the Lesson

    Fossils
    Science
    Second Grade
    In this lesson the teacher and students
    will explore the meaning of fossils and
    their importance to people today. The
    students will create their own fossils out
    of modeling clay. The students will
    complete worksheet activities based on
    fossils.

    Title of the Lesson


    Academic Standards

    Fossil Fun!
    S3.D.1.3.1: Identify ways that cause
    Earths surface to be constantly changing
    (e.g., wind and water erosion, contraction
    and expansion of surfaces).
    S3.A.2.1.1: Generate questions about
    objects, organisms, or events that can be
    answered through scientific
    investigations.
    S3.B.3.2.1: Describe what happens to an
    animal when its habitat is changed.
    S3.D.1.3.2: Distinguish between ways
    that tear down the surface of Earth and
    those that build up the surface (e.g.,
    erosion, weathering, volcanic activity,
    earthquakes)
    Students will be able to (SWBAT) explain
    and define what a fossil is.
    SWBAT explain how fossils can provide
    information about plants and animals
    that lived a long time ago.
    SWBAT explain how fossils form.
    dinosaur
    extinct
    fossil

    Objectives

    Vocabulary: Three Tier

    Estimated Time

    30 -40 minutes

    Materials Required

    Clay/ Model Magic


    Science Fusion Textbook
    Pencils
    Shells/Rock/some kind of mold
    Worksheet copies from book
    Before- The teacher will guide the
    students through a picture walk of page
    119. Students will be asked to write down
    the vocabulary words they can find in the
    lesson. Then students will be asked about
    dinosaurs and if they can name other
    animals that are extinct. Following, the
    students will be asked, How do we learn
    about dinosaurs? Answers can be vary,
    but by looking at fossils. The teacher will
    direct the students attention to the
    completed model clay fossil. The teacher
    will explain, that overtime fossils are
    formed and can leave footprints of
    different materials like, animals bones,
    rocks, etc. Students will see how over 24
    hours the teachers could make their own
    fossil. Students will be allowed to make
    their fossil by taking clay/model magic
    and putting an object and in the clay. The
    clay will sit for 24 hours and tomorrow
    the students will be able to crack the clay
    and see the fossil print it makes.

    Procedure

    During- The teacher will have the


    students generate ideas about the pictures
    on page 120 and 121. The main idea the
    teacher should get across to the students
    is that people can learn about dinosaurs
    from their fossils because they are no
    longer living. The teacher will begin
    reading page 120 and will stop to review
    the vocabulary words once the vocabulary
    word is read. Teacher will complete the

    active reading box on page 120. Teacher


    and students will read page 121 and relate
    the vocabulary word fossil to the
    anticipatory set. Teacher will explain the
    difference between fossil imprints and
    cast forms. Then students will draw their
    own fern fossil in their workbook. While
    they are drawing their own fern fossil the
    teacher will ask the students about the
    tyrannosaurus s teeth to help the
    students with their inferring skills. Do
    you think the tyrannosaurus ate meat or
    plants? Before moving onto the next
    page the teacher will summarize and ask
    the students to verbally tell what they
    have talked about and any connections
    they may have made.
    Teacher and student will read pages 122
    and 123 together. Teacher will develop the
    students science concept by following
    along the questions in the book (page
    122). Teacher will develop inquiry skills
    by telling the sequence of fossils. Then
    explain that if something is soft it will be
    harder for that item to become a fossil
    than if it was a harder material (for
    example, water vs. a leaf). Next, the
    student will talk to a buddy about the four
    steps of a fossil and teacher will have
    them written on the board for
    reinforcements for the visual learners.
    Next the teacher will ask for students who
    want to read out loud page 124. Teacher
    will ask students about the visuals on
    page 124. The questions are on the side of
    124 about the visual. Then the teacher will
    ask the infer question on page 125
    supposefossil.
    After- The students will complete the

    word play and sum it up activity pages


    in the science fusion workbook.

    Formative Assessment

    Extend and Evaluate- Teacher will go over


    the two worksheet pages by asking the
    students to answer the questions out loud
    and the teacher will answer any
    questions, ideas, or concepts that need to
    be answered and intervene if needed be.

    Student Resources

    Science Fusion Textbook

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