450 million years ago, Canada lay in the tropics, covered by a shallow sea.
From cyanobacteria to human beings, let’s climb the geological time scale together by hanging the main events of evolution, in order, on our 5-metre clothesline!
Seashell fossils from that era can still be found in the walls of some buildings and along roadsides! How did these fossils form, and what do they tell us about the history of planet Earth?
Your apprentice paleontologists lead a daring investigation to identify the 7 real fossils in front of them.
Then they pick their favourite “suspect” and make their own plaster fossil to take home!
Learning goals (elementary)
- Describe the major stages in the evolution of living things.
- Describe how fossils form.
- Tell a rock from a fossil.
- Sort fossils by their shape.
- Make a fossil imprint to take home.
