By the end of this unit, students will be able to:
learn what fossils are and how they are formed;
recall that a fossil is the imprint in a rock of a living thing that lived a long time ago;
revisit and deepen their understanding of fossilisation; and
sequence the steps in fossil formation.
National Curriculum Objectives
Year 6 Science: Evolution and inheritance:
recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago
