3rd Grade · Science
Fossil Clues
Free printable 3rd Grade science worksheet: Fossil Clues. It practices fossils (NGSS 3-LS4-1). For ages 8-9. Download the PDF, print it, or fill it in online.
Fill in or color online- Grade
- 3rd Grade
- Subject
- Science
- Skill
- Fossils
- Ages
- 8–9
- Standard
- 3-LS4-1
- Format
- A4 PDF · print or fill in online
About this worksheet
“Fossil Clues” is sheet 28 of 32 in our free 3rd Grade Science Worksheets collection, written for children aged 8–9. It focuses on fossils, one of two sheets in the set on that skill.
In the set it comes after “Survival in a Changed Habitat” and before “Weather Tools”. Working through them in that order, one sheet a day, builds the skill a step at a time.
What this worksheet practices
3-LS4-1 · Next Generation Science Standards · Grade 3
Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
Children explore the variety of life in different habitats and how traits help living things survive.
More fossils worksheets
The other 3rd Grade Science sheets on fossils, in the order they are meant to be done.
How to use this worksheet
- 1
Do the pendulum and balloon investigations for real. The data sheet is only interesting when the numbers are the child’s own.
- 2
For the traits sheets, look at family photos together and talk about which traits are inherited and which are learned.
- 3
Keep a weather chart for a week before the graphing sheet, then compare it with the graph on the page.
