Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe living things as shown in a range of different fossils of plants and animals and a template to select and record information about a fossil and suggest how the species of animal might have evolved over time.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore some of the different animals and plants that lived millions of years ago by examining a range of fossils.

This lesson is part of a science scheme of work to get the children to explore how living things adapt and evolve over time as a result of competition for natural resources and transfer inherited traits to their offspring. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.