School's Jurassic Coast Fossil Loan Box for keystage 1 & 2Jurassic Coast Fossil
Loan Box

For key stage 1 & 2

 

 

Exploring the World Heritage Site Jurassic Coast through its fossils, geology, history and management.

School's Jurassic Coast Fossil Loan Box. Fossils Geology History and Conservation

From September 2008, schools in East Devon, Dorset and South Somerset will be able to access a fantastic new resource that will enable pupils to gain a valuable insight into their coastal, geological, and historical heritage from their own classrooms.

Each box contains real fossils from the Jurassic Coast for pupils to handle as well as a resource pack of inspirational materials and activities based around the key areas of fossils, history, geology and conservation. All the activities are linked to QCA units of work.

Fossils

  • Handle a selection of REAL high quality fossils from the Jurassic Coast.
  • Explore what prehistoric creatures inhabited Dorset in the Jurassic
  • Find out how we can learn what extinct creatures were like by carefully examining their remains.
  • Make some plaster casts from moulds of real fossils.

History

  • Learn about the famous fossil hunters and scientists that worked on the Jurassic Coast
  • Find out how the fossils they found changed the way people thought about the world
  • Discover the strange stories that were used to explain fossils in the past

Geology

  • How did the Jurassic Coast form?
  • construct an Earth History timeline to illustrate the age of the earth and where dinosaurs and human beings fit in the history of our planet.

Conservation

  • Pupils will be encouraged to think about how they can look after the Jurassic Coast
  • Use role play to explain the different sorts of people that live and work at the coast and their different relationships and responsibilities to the landscape.

The Jurassic Coast Fossil Loan Boxes are a new key stage one and two school resource for 2008 produced by the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre.

A Fossil Loan Box can be hired at a cost of £30 for two weeks. If you are interested in hiring this resource please contact the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre

Tel: 01297 560772

Email:info@charmouth.org

 

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