One of the coolest new additions to our Curriculum Resources at OISE Library is the GeoSafari Fossils Collection. This kit, suggested for ages 8 and up, contains nine real fossils for your class to hold. It includes an ammonite, bryozoa, petrified wood, gastropod, fossil fern, crinoid stem, colony coral, a shark’s tooth and a brachipod. If you don’t know what any of those are, don’t worry, a helpful guide comes with the kit! The identification chart and information guide will help you give your classroom a simple introduction to identifying and studying fossils, as well as teach about the history of the Earth.
These 70 million-year-old fossils are bound to fascinate your classroom. Think about pairing this kit with the Zoomy: digital microscope to help your classroom examine every millimetre of detail in these little fossils. You can read about that kit here.
You can view a larger image of the GeoSafari Fossils Collection in the OISE Library K-12 Manipulatives Database, which is designed to help OISE students discover our hands-on learning resources. Curriculum Resources can only be borrowed by current OISE students, faculty and staff, and CTEP students. They can be borrowed for 14 days and renewed three times. The GeoSafari Fossils Collection is now on display one the coffee table on the Ground Floor of the library.