OUR FEET UNDER IT’S AWESOME ABOVE YOUR HEAD We all know there is a lot of interesting stuff up in the sky There are beautiful birds amazing airplanes and cool clouds We can even use a telescope to see miles and miles into the sky all the way into space We can see the moon the sun and the stars We can see other planets meteors and even whole galaxies There’s plenty to see when you look up PLANETS SUN AMAZING AEROPLANES MOON BEAUTIFUL BIRDS STARS TELESCOPE GALAXIES COOL CLOUDS 4
IT’S AMAZING ALL AROUND YOU The world around you is a pretty interesting place too wherever you are There are mountains and valleys natural wonders and human made skylines wherever you look And living in the spaces between are the people plants and animals that make up life on Earth They are all around you all different and all fascinating There’s so much to see LOOK DOWN Have you ever thought about what’s there when you look down though Nothing much interesting right Some mud maybe a few rocks but why would you be interested in that when there’s so much cool stuff to see up here Have you ever wondered why there aren’t any dinosaurs anymore How do we know they existed all that time ago if no one has ever seen one Buried in the ground below us are secrets kept for hundreds thousands and even millions of years Each secret has an amazing story to tell so let’s grab a shovel and dig deep 5
We can trace the history of life on Earth by looking at fossils LIFE ON EARTH DID YOU KNOW Every living thing on Earth can be traced back to a single organism We can learn about animals that we’ve never seen before by literally walking in their fossilized footsteps People who look for fossils are called palaeontologists Fossils can be found on every continent on Earth FOUND IN ASIA 6 FOUND IN NORTH AMERICA There’s so much to see Up here on the street But it’s even more interesting Under our feet
FACT FILE FOSSILS Fossils are the remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago Body fossils are imprints of an animal’s body or a plant onto rock Trace fossils show the activity of an animal such as footprints or egg nests Fossils can be tiny or huge from an insect to a huge dinosaur Fossils give us clues about life on Earth long long ago COMMON FOSSILS SHARK TEETH OUCH BELEMNITE FOSSILIZED SQUID AMMONITE SEA CREATURE FOSSIL FANS People who study fossils are called palaeontologists Palaeontologists study the history of life on our planet by digging up fossilized remains and figuring out how old they are They also piece fossils together to find out what that animal or plant might have been like This can tell us about what life on Earth used to be like 7
