5 Questions
Who visited the students' school?
A paleontologist
What did Shelly think she found during the trip?
A dinosaur bone
What did the students actually find inside the rock?
A leaf imprint
How old did the paleontologist say the rock with the leaf imprint could be?
Thousands of years old
Where did the class go on their trip with the paleontologist?
To a ravine near the school
Study Notes
A Class Trip to the Ravine
- A paleontologist visited the students' school and took them on a trip to a nearby ravine.
- The purpose of the trip was to learn how to excavate rock to search for animal bones.
- One of the students, Shelly, thought she found a dinosaur bone but it was actually just a rock.
- Despite not finding any bones, the class discovered a leaf imprint inside a rock.
- The paleontologist explained that the rock with the leaf imprint was thousands of years old.
The Leaf Imprint Rock
- The rock was light gray in color and had a dark gray leaf imprint in the center.
- The leaf imprint had several jagged edges on the outside.
- The rock had wavy lines throughout to represent texture.
A paleontologist visits a school and takes the students on a trip to a nearby ravine to search for fossils. They learn about excavation and find a rock with a leaf imprint.
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