Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe living things as shown in a range of different fossils, a shared reading text to describe the life and work of a famous paleontologist who researched fossils, a table display card to collect and record information about a fossil to use in a newspaper report and a template to record answers to key questions as part of a newspaper report about a fossil discovery.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how scientists such as Mary Anning observed and studied a range of different living things from the past.

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.