For this early primate worksheet, students will read information about the fossil evidence of the earliest primates. Students will complete 3 short answer questions based on their reading.

Students make a mold using Plaster of Paris and then make a cast using that same mold. They pick a fossil and describe how it looks. They write a fictionalized story about its life, or burial. (

Students explore archeology and it contributions to human history. They write a magazine article describing the discovery of a dig.

A portrait of Richard Owen from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.