Meet a palaeontologist presentation
Use this presentation to inspire your pupils to think about a potential future career and link learning about rocks and fossils to the real-world.
How can I use this with my class?
Use these career-focused resources to explore the palaeontologist career. Use the presentation to meet Emilio, a palaeontologist who works in a university laboratory and understand how he carries out his job.
Use the job role card to explore the skills needed to be a palaeontologist and how to get the job. Your class can then compare their current skills with Emilios and decide what they could work on.
This is a short series of resources could be used to supplement a science or geography lesson or used in PSHE.
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Meet a palaeontologist job card
Inspire your pupils to think about a future career and link learning about rocks and fossils to the real-world, with this job-role card.
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Meet a petrologist presentation
Use this presentation to inspire your pupils to think about a potential future career and link learning about rocks to the real-world.
Meet a petrologist job card
Inspire your pupils to think about a future career and link learning about rocks to the real-world, with this job-role card.
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