Learning activities for kids: How to make your own fossil

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Do you have a child, or a classroom full of children excited by rocks and minerals? Then you’ll love the Reading Kingdom recommended learning activities for kids.

Explore Rocks and Minerals! 25 Projects, Activities, Experiments by Cynthia Light Brown and Nick Brown is an activity book for young readers ages 6 – 9. The book features 25 hands-on projects, activities, and experiments to help kids learn about fossils and what they tell us about the past, and how to start their own collections of rocks, minerals, and fossils.

Click here to download this classic learning activity for kids: How to make your own fossil

Here’s what authors Cynthia Light Brown and Nick Brown have to say about this activity:

“This activity gives you an idea of how a fossil forms. Note: NEVER pour plaster down the sink!”

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Cynthia Light Brown

Cynthia Light Brown

Cynthia Light Brown has a Master's degree in Earth and Planetary Science and twenty-one years experience as an environmental consultant specializing in pollution prevention, toxicology, and risk assessment. She is a founding partner and Vice President of Clover Leaf Environmental Solutions and coaches several Odyssey of the Mind teams. Cynthia is the mother of three children in eleventh, ninth and fifth grades and a featured writer on a new writers blog (Route 19 Writers).

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