Education Program - Primary
Primary Stage 1
| Aims | - to provide students with an understanding of how fossils are formed - to provide students with some knowledge about the Canowindra fishes |
Guided Tour
- Concept of time
- The Canowindra Fish fossils
Activities
- Role-play - How are fossils formed?
- How did the Canowindra fishes die?
- How were the Canowindra fish fossils found?
- Story telling - What Ossie didn’t know
Workbooks
- Dot to dot – Canowindra grossi
- Canowindra grossi-tick the box question & answer
- Link fish with their name
At School activities sheets
- Extension activities are included in the resources pack sent to you once a booking has been made.
These activities and workbook sheets can be varied to meet your students’ needs
Primary Stage 2
| Aims | - to provide students with an understanding of how fossils are formed - to encourage students to think about the Canowindra fishes and the world they lived in - to create an awareness of similar fish alive today |
Guided Tour
- Concept of time
- What we’ve found
Activities
- Role-play - How are fossils formed?
- How did the Canowindra fishes die?
- How were the Canowindra fossils found?
- Visualisation - Devonian landscape
- Story telling - What Ossie didn’t know
Workbooks
- Breakfast in the Billabong match- fish with names
- Fishes facts & history questions
- Mandageria- tick the box question & answer
- Fish & fossils questions
At School activities sheets
- Extension activities are included in the resources packs sent to you upon confirmation of a booking.
These activities and workbook sheets can be varied to meet your students’ needs
Primary Stage 3
| Aims | - to provide an understanding of the discovery and significance of the find - to allow students to study the Canowindra fish fossils |
Guided Tour
- Concept of time
- Discovery
- Importance of fish and of fossils
Activities
- Visualisation – Devonian time travel
- Building a time line
Workbook
- Find the fossils – study the rocks
- Know the facts – questions
- Done the dinosaurs do the fishes
- Fossils – how are they formed?
At School activities sheets
- Extension activities are included in the resources pack sent to you upon confirmation of a booking.
These activities and workbook sheets can be varied to meet your students’ needs
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