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Dig It: Fossils, Rocks, & Clues

Dig It: Fossils, Rocks, & Clues
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🌍 Dig It: Fossils, Rocks, & Clues

A SpecialEdSimplified Unit for Exploring Earth’s Clues

Unlock Earth’s ancient secrets through accessible, engaging science lessons designed for students with disabilities.
This 7-day unit helps students uncover how fossils, rocks, and ocean clues reveal Earth’s changing surface and the powerful movement of continents over time.

📘 What’s Inside the Unit:

  • 7 Comprehensive Lessons: exploring evidence of plate motion from fossil records, rock formations, and ocean floor patterns.

  • Student-Friendly Stories like “What the Earth Tells Us” and “Clues Under the Ocean” help students build background knowledge in clear, simplified language.

  • Hands-On Activities that include interactive foldables, visual sort tasks, comic strip investigations, and model building—perfect for multi-modal learning.

  • SymbolStix-Style Visual Supports throughout to enhance understanding for visual learners.

  • Built-In Supports for alternate assessment and diverse learning needs:

    • Low-reading-level materials

    • Visual matching

    • Yes/no questions

    • Vocabulary cards and sentence starters

    • Interactive notebook tools

    • Teacher-guided prompts

🧠 Students Will Learn:

  • What fossils are and how they form

  • Why the same fossils are found on different continents

  • How the shapes and layers of rocks tell a story

  • What the Mid-Ocean Ridge and seafloor spreading are

  • How stripes in ocean rocks offer clues about Earth’s movement

  • How all these clues fit together to support continental drift and plate tectonics

👩‍🏫 Teacher Tools Included:

  • Complete Teacher Resource Guide with:
    ✔ Answer Keys
    ✔ Suggestions for accommodations
    ✔ Extension activities for each lesson

  • Ready-to-print Vocabulary Cards

  • Editable materials to adjust for student needs

🎯 Perfect for middle school and alternate assessment science classrooms.
Let your students become Earth detectives with Dig It: Fossils, Rocks, & Clues. The Earth has a story to tell—help them discover it!

Some instructional text and visual elements on this page were generated or adapted with the assistance of AI technology (OpenAI’s ChatGPT), and reviewed by SpecialEdSimplified for accuracy and alignment with instructional goals.

🔒 Please Note: This product is for single classroom use only. If multiple teachers will be using this resource, please purchase additional licenses. 

These activities are based on Common Core Standards. Price and Willoughby, LLC make no guarantees regarding student test performance.

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