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🔬 3rd Grade · Science3-LS4-1Unit 3: Environments & survival

Fossils

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🎯 Objective: Students analyze fossils to learn about past organisms and environments.

Lesson outline

  1. Fossil stations.
  2. Infer.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: one inference.

Lesson 2 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

3-LS4-1

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Grade 3 — typical US unit order

🏁 Unit goals

  • Explain how organisms survive in their habitat
  • Use fossils to learn about past environments
  • Explain why animals form groups

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Dinosaurs🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Environments & survival”

  1. Groups help survival
  2. Fossils
  3. Habitats and survival
  4. When environments change

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