Making our own fossils

 Last week, we started to look at the formation of fossils. We decided to do an experiment ourselves. We started with a slice of bread at the bottom to represent the sea bed and placed a few gummy sharks on top of this slice of bread to represent the dead sea life (fossils). We then added a slice of rye bread to represent the sedimentary rock. We then placed another slice of break on top and stacked some heavy books on top to apply pressure. We left this for the rest of the week. 

Today, it was time to extract and observe our fossils. We peeled away the layers we had created to see what had happened.  Once we had separated our layers of bread, we were able to see the impressions of our fossils.