Student Instruction Sheet

Fossils and Ancient

Environments Lab
From American Association Of Petroleum
Geologists
Objective: To help understand how
fossils are evidence of our past histor and its environment!
"uestion: #hat can fossils tell us about ancient life and ancient
environments$
%nstructions:
1. &otate through each station when our teacher tells ou
to move!
2. 'se our observation sheet to draw a picture of our own
fossil that ou pic(! #hat does it loo( li(e$ #hat does it
feel li(e$ #hat color is it$ Add color)
3. From our picture* guess what the environment was li(e
for our fossil! #as it under water$ #as it on land$ #as
it in a desert$
4. Present our idea to the
class)