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Science - Chocolate fossils - Dec

We have been learning about the process of fossilisation as part of our rocks and soils topic in Science. Today we made chocolate fossils to gain a better understanding of the process.

We pushed a plastic toy animal into salt dough to represent an animal dying and being covered by layers and layers of sediment, which harden over time and form a mould around the animal. We then filled our mould with melted chocolate to show how minerals fill the space where the animal remains would have been and then make a cast fossil.

Finally, after a bit of time in the fridge we uncovered our 'fossils' with impressive results!

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