
Introduction to Lyme Regis beach video
Visit Lyme Regis beach in Dorset with Maia and Keiran as they ask questions about rocks and fossils.
Topics:
Living things and their habitats
Use this presentation to celebrate World Ocean Day. Take a quiz about our ocean, discover the issues it’s facing and learn how we can take action to protect it for the future. Also features ocean careers.
Visit Lyme Regis beach in Dorset with Maia and Keiran as they ask questions about rocks and fossils.
Maia and Keiran discover what a fossil is, how fossils get inside rocks and what fossils can tell us about living things.
Maia and Keiran meet an expert at the Charmouth Heritage Centre who explains how sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks form, using chocolate!
Match each animal or plant fossil to the living thing it formed from.
Match the images to the sentences and explain how fossils are formed.
Use this poster to look closely at an ichthyosaur fossil and use clues to work out what this extinct marine reptile was like when it was alive.