3rd Grade What Do Texas Fossils Tell Us?
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3rd Grade What Do Texas Fossils Tell Us? Worksheet
Why can you find shark teeth and sea shells in the hills near Austin? This Texas fossils worksheet turns common local finds into clues about past environments. Ammonites and shark teeth show a sea once covered Texas, tracks at Dinosaur Valley State Park show dinosaurs walked there, and petrified wood, the Texas state stone, shows trees once grew there.
Key Science Vocabulary
fossil, evidence, past environment, ammonite, petrified wood, dinosaur track, sea
What's Inside
- Teach box with ammonite and shark tooth doodles
- Part A: label four Texas fossils W (water covered it), D (dinosaurs walked here), or F (trees grew here)
- Part B: three circle the answer questions on what each fossil tells us
- Answer key with a list of common Texas fossils
Standards
TEKS 3.12D: identify fossils as evidence of past living organisms and environments, including common Texas fossils. Also aligned to NGSS 3-LS4-1.
Teaching Tip
Pull up a photo of the Paluxy River dinosaur tracks and ask students what the land must have been like when the dinosaur stepped there.
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