EVOLUTION OF LIFE

Title & Description	Activity	More Ideas and Video
How many Beany Beetles? - the evolution game Investigating evolution by adaptation and natural selection	Evolution game	Teaching video
How many Great Great Great Great Grandparents? Finding out how we inherit our characteristics	How many Great Grandparents?	Teaching video
Pattern of continents/oceans versus the pattern of life on Earth (ELI+) How can the link between continental patterns and life on Earth be explained?	Continents versus biodiversity
Scary scorpions Make your own scorpion and imagine how it lived	Scary scorpions
Sorting out the evolution of evolution headlines (ELI+) Lay out your own timeline of how the theory of evolution developed	Evolution of evolution
Time-line in your own backyard Hang pictures of the important events in the history of life on a string time-line	Time-line in your own backyard	Teaching video Extension Video
Toilet roll of time Make a geological timeline to take home	Toilet roll of time	Video

FOSSILS (mostly invertebrates)

Title & Description	Activity	More Ideas and Video
Ammonites: the ups and downs How did ammonites adjust their position in the sea?	Ammonites: the ups and downs
Curious creatures Using fossil and modern evidence to work out the lifestyles of extinct animals	Curious creatures	Video (Cambrian explosion song)
Fossil or not? Discussion about what is a fossil and what is not	Fossil or not?	Teaching video
Fossilise! (ELI Early years) A game showing how fossils form and survive	Fossilise!
How could I become fossilised? Thinking through fossilisation in the context of me or you	How could I become fossilised?	Teaching video Extension
Mary Anning - Mother of Palaeontology “A woman in a man’s world”	Mary Anning	Teaching video Animation by Anna Humphries, BBC website “The girl who helped discover dinosaurs”
Picturing Fossils - 1 Visualise and draw fossils from a verbal description	Picturing fossils - 1
Picturing Fossils - 2 Visualise and draw fossils from a verbal description	Picturing fossils - 2
Running the fossilisation film backwards Bringing a fossil ‘back to life’	Running fossilisation film backwards	Teaching video
Shell shake - survival of the toughest Why is the fossil record incomplete?	Shell shake	Video
Trace fossils - burrows or borings What evidence do living organisms leave behind in rocks?	Trace fossils	Teaching video
Trace fossils - Picturing trace fossils and other strange shapes Visualise and draw trace fossils and sedimentary structures from a verbal description	Picturing trace fossils
Trail-making Making your own "fossil" animal trails	Trail-making
What was it like to be there? - bringing a fossil to life A series of questions to bring fossils, and the environments in which they lived, to life	What was it like to be there? - bringing a fossil to life	Teaching video Get geo-creative
Who ate the ammonite? A Jurassic food web - from fossil evidence	Jurassic_menu	Extension

DINOSAURS

Title & Description	Activity	More Ideas and Video
Dig up the dinosaur Become a fossil hunter and dig up a dinosaur	Dig up the dinosaur	Extension Video
Dinosaur death - did it die or was it killed? Was this a Cretaceous crime scene? - using rock and fossil forensic evidence to find out	Dinosaur death - did it die or was it killed?
Dinosaur in the yard Was Iguanodon strolling in the sun, or fleeing in fear?	Dinosaur in the yard	Extension
How to weigh a dinosaur Using a dinosaur footprint impression to estimate how heavy the animal was	How to weigh a dinosaur
Let’s weigh a dinosaur How can a plastic model reveal the mass of an actual dinosaur?	Let’s weigh a dinosaur!
Meeting of the dinosaurs - 100 million years ago The evidence given by dinosaur footprints	Meeting of the dinosaurs	Teaching video Extension

ADAPTATION TO ENVIRONMENT

Title & Description	Activity	More Ideas and Video
Sea shell survival How are common sea shells adapted to their habitats?	Sea shell survival	Teaching video
Fifty million years into the future Investigating how animals become adapted to their environments	Life in the future	Box School animals
Space survival: how could we survive a year in a dome? Pupils plan to survive for a year in a sealed dome in a desert	Space survival: how could we survive a year in a dome?

PRESERVATION

Title & Description	Activity	More Ideas and Video
From hard-boiled eggs to bog bodies An investigation into the effects of tannin and mild acid	Bog bodies