General introduction to worksheets
The Fossil Park has developed a new Education Programme with many exciting activities that will bring the study of Fossils alive! Activities cover many topics such as, how old is the earth, how do fossils form, what it is like to become a palaeontologist and many more!
These activities will assist with the exploration and understanding of an exciting and compelling past!
The programme is divided in four categories:
Grade 7 - 9, learning area: Natural Sciences and Planet Earth and beyond.
1. Environments of past and present |
2. The theory of natural selection |
3. The fossilisation process |
4. The giant impact |
5. How do we know how old the earth is |
6. Fossil detectives |
7. Volcanic eruptions |
8. Evolution of a species |
9. The geological time scale |
10. The movement of tectonic plates
Go to Senior Phase Index | Download all Senior Phase Worksheets (zip 6.8Mb)
Grade 10 – 12, learning area Life Sciences
1. Mass extinctions and fossils |
2. Fossilisation process |
3. Blast from the past |
4. Geological time activity |
5. Create a travel brochure |
6. Crossword |
7. Beliefs about the origins of life |
8. Evolutionary detectives |
9. Evidence at fossil park of Darwin’s evolutionary theory |
10. Lamarck versus Darwin’s evolutionary theory
Go to FET Phase Index | Download all FET Phase Worksheets (zip 5.6Mb)