This product contains 12 cuttable interactive notebook templates, with activities like spinner, pyramid, sorting, statement pairing activity, Accordion activity, Maze and puzzle, Image Matching activities, etc.

There are answer keys and actual student-style images for the activities.

Topics Covered:

• Fossil and Environmental change - Spinner
• Body Fossil Examples - Pyramid
• Trace Fossil Examples - Pyramid
• Examples of Body Fossils - Pyramid
• Body and Trace Fossil Classification - Sorting Activity
• Fill in the Blanks
• True or false
• Statement Pairing Activity
• Fossil formation accordion
• How fossils are formed and environmental change maze
• Rock layers fossil matching
• Fossil and rock layers image interpretation

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What You Get: 2 Printable DFs:

• US Letter Version – 37 pages
• About Dewwool.com – 4 pages

Take your students on a journey through Earth’s geologic history with this NGSS-aligned interactive notebook focused on 4-ESS1-1: Fossil and Rock Formation. Learners will explore how evidence from fossils and rock layers helps scientists explain changes in landscapes over time. With hands-on activities, interactive visuals, and reflection prompts, this resource makes Earth science engaging and meaningful.

Perfect for Grades 4–6, this notebook adapts easily to traditional, hybrid, and remote learning, while aligning with NGSS, TEKS, ACARA, Ontario, BC, and UK KS2 standards.

🌍 Curriculum Compatibility:

This interactive notebook is aligned with NGSS 4-ESS1-1, which emphasizes identifying evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils to explain landscape changes. It also supports international standards:

🇨🇦 Canada (Ontario & BC Science Curriculum):

• Ontario Grade 4 Science: Examines rocks, minerals, soils, and the evidence they provide about Earth’s history.
• BC Grade 4–5 Science: Studies Earth materials and the role of fossils and rocks in showing past environments.
  

🇺🇸 Texas TEKS:

• Grade 4.7A: Observes and describes rock formations, including fossil evidence of past environments.
• Grade 5.10C: Identifies how rock and fossil evidence shows changes in Earth’s surface.
  

🇺🇸 Virginia SOL:

• Grade 4 Science: Explores Earth’s materials, fossils, and the story they tell about past environments.
• Grade 5 Science: Investigates how rock and fossil evidence reveals Earth’s history.
  

🇬🇧 United Kingdom KS2 Science:

• Year 3–4: Studies fossils, soils, and rocks, and how they form evidence of Earth’s past.
  

🇦🇺 Australia (ACARA – Years 4–5):

• ACSSU073: Earth’s surface changes over time, with evidence preserved in rocks and fossils.
• ACSSU075: Recognizes that Earth’s history is recorded in rock layers and fossil evidence.
  

✅ This resource is ideal for Grades 4–6 worldwide, giving students the tools to analyze rocks and fossils as evidence of Earth’s changing landscapes through interactive, inquiry-driven learning.

Please note: Actual images may slightly vary based on ongoing feedback and refinements.

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