Fossils and Environments of the Past: Science Unit 5, Grade 3 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Fossils and Environments of the Past is Unit 5 of Investigating Our World: Forces, Life, and Earth Systems (Grade 3), the Letters & Devotion Science course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 41 pages.

• Fossils as evidence of past life
• The three-way distinction between fossil, living thing, and non-living rock
• Fossil traits compared to living-organism traits
• Rock layers as a record of relative time, oldest at bottom
• Relative age ranking from a new rock-layer diagram
• Past environment inferred from fossil trait evidence
• Limits of fossil evidence
• Two texts describing the same fossil site
• Past environment inference from a novel fossil sample

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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