This document contains station cards with pictures of 8 different fossils. Students are instructed to study each fossil picture and use provided websites to answer questions about the type of fossil, how it was formed and fossilized, the environmental conditions required for fossilization, what each fossil can reveal about the past environment and organisms, whether the organism is still present today, and what information scientists can learn by studying each fossil. The questions are the same for each of the 8 fossil station cards.

1. EXPLORE, Part 1
Station Cards
Ask Fossil # 1
Directions:
Study the following picture. Use the websites to answer the
questions about this fossil.
Picture # 1:
1. What kind of fossil are you?
2. How were you formed? How did it feel to become
fossilized?
3. What conditions made it possible for you to be fossilized?
4. How are you a “window into the past?”
5. What can you tell me about your environment?
6. How did you change during your lifetime? Are you still on
Earth today? Why or why not?
7. What kind of information could scientists find out by
studying you?
Websites to search for information:
http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~pgore/geology/historical_lab/2010Preservation.pdf
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/paleo/fossils/index.html
http://www.zoomschool.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinofossils/Fossiltypes.html
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2. EXPLORE, Part 1
Station Cards
Ask Fossil # 2
Directions:
Study the following picture. Use the websites to answer the
questions about this fossil.
Picture # 2:
1. What kind of fossil are you?
2. How were you formed? How did it feel to become
fossilized?
3. What conditions made it possible for you to be fossilized?
4. How are you a “window into the past?”
5. What can you tell me about your environment?
6. How did you change during your lifetime? Are you still on
Earth today? Why or why not?
7. What kind of information could scientists find out by
studying you?
Websites to search for information:
http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~pgore/geology/historical_lab/2010Preservation.pdf
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/paleo/fossils/index.html
http://www.zoomschool.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinofossils/Fossiltypes.html
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8 Grade: Unit 6 13

3. EXPLORE, Part 1
Station Cards
Ask Fossil # 3
Directions:
Study the following picture. Use the websites to answer the
questions about this fossil.
Picture #3
1. What kind of fossil are you?
2. How were you formed? How did it feel to become
fossilized?
3. What conditions made it possible for you to be fossilized?
4. How are you a “window into the past?”
5. What can you tell me about your environment?
6. How did you change during your lifetime? Are you still on
Earth today? Why or why not?
7. What kind of information could scientists find out by
studying you?
Websites to search for information:
http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~pgore/geology/historical_lab/2010Preservation.pdf
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/paleo/fossils/index.html
http://www.zoomschool.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinofossils/Fossiltypes.html
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8 Grade: Unit 6 14

4. EXPLORE, Part 1
Station Cards
Ask Fossil # 4
Directions:
Study the following picture. Use the websites to answer the
questions about this fossil.
Picture #4
1. What kind of fossil are you?
2. How were you formed? How did it feel to become
fossilized?
3. What conditions made it possible for you to be fossilized?
4. How are you a “window into the past?”
5. What can you tell me about your environment?
6. How did you change during your lifetime? Are you still on
Earth today? Why or why not?
7. What kind of information could scientists find out by
studying you?
Websites to search for information:
http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~pgore/geology/historical_lab/2010Preservation.pdf
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/paleo/fossils/index.html
http://www.zoomschool.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinofossils/Fossiltypes.html
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8 Grade: Unit 6 15

5. EXPLORE, Part 1
Station Cards
Ask Fossil # 5
Directions:
Study the following picture. Use the websites to answer the
questions about this fossil.
Picture #5
1. What kind of fossil are you?
2. How were you formed? How did it feel to become
fossilized?
3. What conditions made it possible for you to be fossilized?
4. How are you a “window into the past?”
5. What can you tell me about your environment?
6. How did you change during your lifetime? Are you still on
Earth today? Why or why not?
7. What kind of information could scientists find out by
studying you?
Websites to search for information:
http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~pgore/geology/historical_lab/2010Preservation.pdf
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/paleo/fossils/index.html
http://www.zoomschool.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinofossils/Fossiltypes.html
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8 Grade: Unit 6 16

6. EXPLORE, Part 1
Station Cards
Ask Fossil # 6
Directions:
Study the following picture. Use the websites to answer the
questions about this fossil.
Picture #6
1. What kind of fossil are you?
2. How were you formed? How did it feel to become
fossilized?
3. What conditions made it possible for you to be fossilized?
4. How are you a “window into the past?”
5. What can you tell me about your environment?
6. How did you change during your lifetime? Are you still on
Earth today? Why or why not?
7. What kind of information could scientists find out by
studying you?
Websites to search for information:
http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~pgore/geology/historical_lab/2010Preservation.pdf
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/paleo/fossils/index.html
http://www.zoomschool.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinofossils/Fossiltypes.html
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8 Grade: Unit 6 17

7. EXPLORE, Part 1
Station Cards
Ask Fossil # 7
Directions:
Study the following picture. Use the websites to answer the
questions about this fossil.
Picture #7
1. What kind of fossil are you?
2. How were you formed? How did it feel to become
fossilized?
3. What conditions made it possible for you to be fossilized?
4. How are you a “window into the past?”
5. What can you tell me about your environment?
6. How did you change during your lifetime? Are you still on
Earth today? Why or why not?
7. What kind of information could scientists find out by
studying you?
Websites to search for information:
http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~pgore/geology/historical_lab/2010Preservation.pdf
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/paleo/fossils/index.html
http://www.zoomschool.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinofossils/Fossiltypes.html
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8 Grade: Unit 6 18

8. EXPLORE, Part 1
Station Cards
Ask Fossil # 8
Directions:
Study the following picture. Use the websites to answer the
questions about this fossil.
Picture #8
1. What kind of fossil are you?
2. How were you formed? How did it feel to become
fossilized?
3. What conditions made it possible for you to be fossilized?
4. How are you a “window into the past?”
5. What can you tell me about your environment?
6. How did you change during your lifetime? Are you still on
Earth today? Why or why not?
7. What kind of information could scientists find out by
studying you?
Websites to search for information:
http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~pgore/geology/historical_lab/2010Preservation.pdf
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/paleo/fossils/index.html
http://www.zoomschool.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinofossils/Fossiltypes.html
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8 Grade: Unit 6 19