Geology and Fossil Hunt

Students learn the three rock groups and then focus on how sediments make sedimentary rock, and how fossils form. They work in groups to see how seashells can make a fossil mold, and they get their hands on real coral reef fossils dating to the Silurian Period. Then the naturalist takes them down to the park's quarry to test their fossil ID skills (please note that fossils must remain within the quarry).

1-1/2 to 2 hours

Stand-Alone Program: $3.50/person. 

Program with caving: included in caving cost.

STANDARDS

SCI.LS2.B.5          Matter cycles between air and soil and among organisms as they live and die

SCI.LS4.A.3          Fossils provide evidence about the types of organisms and environments that existed long ago

SCI.LS4.C.3          Particular organisms can only survive in particular environments

SCI.LS4.A.m        The fossil record documents the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of many life forms and their environments through Earth's history

SCI.ESS1.C.4       Certain features on Earth can be used to order events that have occurred in a landscape

SCI.ESS1.C.m      Rock strata and the fossil record can be used as evidence to organize the relative occurrence of major historical events in Earth's history

SCI.ESS2.e.m       The fossil record documents the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of many life forms throughout history

ELS.C1.C.e            Explore outdoors

ELS.EX2.C.e          Identify ways in which people are dependent on natural resources