Location – DERBY MUSEUM & ART GALLERY

Duration: 120 mins

Booking and Prices: £6.50 + VAT per pupil.  This session allows 25 pupils (minimum) to 35 pupils (maximum)

Key Stage: Key Stage 1

TO BOOK: Fill Out Our Booking Form or email us at learn@derbymuseums.org

Session Description: A session 200 million years in the making! In this hands-on session, students will become palaeontologists and explore our unique fossil collection. We use enquiry-based learning techniques to handle a range of fossils as well as learn about the three types of rock and the rock cycle. Children will hear about Mary Anning, a pioneer of palaeontology, and create their own impression ‘fossil’ to take away to excavate at home or school.

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National Curriculum Links Include:

• Science – Rocks and Evolution and inheritance. “Pupils should be taught to compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties (and) describe how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock”. “Pupils should be taught to recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago”.