1. Today’s essential question is:
What can we learn from the stories fossils can tell?

2. Fossils can talk! Well, sort of…
Over many years the surface of the Earth has changed.
We know this because the fossils paleontologists have found tell stories.

3. What kinds of stories? Fish fossil on top of mountain…
Fern fossil in cold, snow-covered region…
Thousands of fish fossils in the middle of the desert…

4. Things change…
Some fossils tell us about plants and animals that are no longer on the Earth.
Other fossils tell us about how plants and animals that are still on the Earth have changed over the years.