Last week we made dinosaur fossil eggs by making egg shapes out of dirt, sand and plaster of paris. We pushed a toy dinosaur into the mixture and rolled it into an egg shape and waited about a week for it to completely dry. We asked Kotuku class to bury our eggs then we went out to dig them up using the tools in the fossil kits that we had put together. It was great fun discovering the 'fossils' although some are still out there somewhere as we couldn't find them all!
We used our tools to carefully crack open the egg to find our 'fossilised' dinosaur inside. Finally we researched what species of dinosaur we had discovered.
We learnt a lot about Paleontology and how it's important to use the correct tools and also that you have to be super patient!
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