1. Fossils
A Link to Our Past

2. Fossils
Curriculum standard: The learner will be able to describe how fossils provide information about the types of organisms that lived in the past.

3. Fossils Writing assignment:
Students will write one paragraph on how fossils give us information on the past.

4. Fossils are the remains of animals and plants, or the record of their presence, preserved in the rocks of the Earth.

5. You are now a part of an archeological dig
You are now a part of an archeological dig. Look at the following pictures of items that were found and deter-mine what type of society used these items.

6. Types of societies
1. Hunter-gatherer
2. Farming
3. Fishing

7. What does this look like? What could it be made out of?

8. What does this
look like?
Who might use it?

9. Which society used these?
Shell necklace
Bone fishing hook

10. Fishing society

11. Fishing society Fishing societies used bone hooks for catching fish.
They would use
shells for clothing
decoration and
trading.

12. What do these items look like?

13. A bear tooth and an arrowhead would be used by what society?

14. Hunter-gatherers

15. Hunter-gatherers
Hunter-gatherers used buffalo and deer skin for clothing and building shelters.

16. What society would use these items?
A woven basket
A bison shoulder blade hoe

17. A farming society would use a bone hoe to plant crops and baskets to harvest them.

18. We can use fossils to determine what kind of societies existed in the past. By examining these finds, we can learn more about the history of our land and the people who lived here.

19. Fossils
Writing assignment:
Now write a paragraph about how fossils give us information on the past.