- 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
