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FOSSILS PROJECT



FOSSILS PROJECT


SUBJECT: Social sciences and natural sciences
COURSE: Level 4 of Primary Education

We have been working for 2 weeks with fossils project with students from the fourth level of Primary Education.
Our pupils had to make a mass with flour, salt and hot water. They were mixing the materials until they got a uniform mass. Once it was warm, they were drawing some shapes, steps, pictures using different kinds of materials such as plastic forks, stones, leaves, shells, toys which they had at home…Once they were decorated or drawn, they put the mass in the oven at 100 degrees. When the mass was cold they could understand how a step or a rest of an animal could be kept for long time.



Here we can see an example of a fossil stone that students made in the project.


After creating them, they had to write on their social sciences notebook the process they were following to and some conclusions they got about the way some animals, plants, objects, materials and jewels could be kept since long time ago.
This task was a good experience to learn something about the History because after that they brought at classroom some fossils which they had at home and we could get some interesting ideas to improve our knowledge. We were sharing contents between natural sciences and social sciences and their cognitive skills were improved.

Alberto de Miguel


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