About this worksheet
Gap-fill guided notes on how fossils form, for Year 3, over three pages with an answer key. The notes start with what a fossil is and why hard parts such as shells and bones last. Three stages follow: sinking and burying, pressure and turning to stone, and exposure and discovery. Each stage has three gap sentences and a picture, from a fish skeleton on the seabed to a palaeontologist brushing a cliff. Written questions ask why fossils take so long to form and where they are found. There is no word bank. The notes follow the England National Curriculum objective on fossils.
