Changes Over Time: Fossils and Dinosaurs
Students will learn about fossils as evidence of ancient life and explore how animals and plants have changed over very long periods of time, focusing on dinosaurs.
Key Questions
- What are fossils and what do they tell us?
- How do we know dinosaurs lived a long, long time ago?
- What happened to the dinosaurs?
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