Five small pictures show how a fossil forms on this 3-page 3rd grade science sheet. Students number them from 1 to 5, from a fish sinking to the bottom of a lake to a scientist finding the fossil. Page 2 then asks them to complete five sentences with the words buried, layers, minerals, bones and discovered. The answers page gives the order of pictures A to E and the five missing words. It suits the Fossils topic as a first look at the process.
“Put the steps of fossil formation in order.”
Page 1 asks for a number from 1 to 5 for each of the five pictures.
“Use words such as buried, layers and minerals to describe how a fossil forms.”
Page 2 supplies five words for five sentences.
Pictures A to E in mixed order, each with a one-sentence caption and a box to number from 1 to 5. The scenes run from a fish sinking to a scientist digging at the surface.
A word bank of five words and five sentences with one blank each, written in order from the fish dying to the fossil being discovered.
A number for each picture and the five words in order.
Cut and sequence
Copy a spare sheet, cut out the five pictures and let pairs arrange them before anyone writes a number.
Retell the story
After page 2, have students retell the five steps aloud using only the pictures as cues.
Check the first blank
Sentence 1 needs bones, the hard part left behind. A student who writes minerals there has mixed up steps 1 and 4.
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