LKS2 – Class 5 -Science

Today in Class 5, we made our very own fossils! Last week, we learned how a fossil is made over thousands of years. Today we recreated the fossilisation process. First, we pushed a toy insect into some salt dough. This is like when a living thing dies and is compressed into mud or sand. Then we took the insect out, and a mould was left behind, which is what happens when the living thing decays. Finally, we poured in plaster mixture, to recreate the minerals and sediment filling the mould and creating a fossil. At every step, the children were fantastic at using their scientific vocabulary to describe what was happening.