Fossil Hunt

14 May, 3 pm, Energy Hall
workshop for children in English with sign language interpreting to Bulgarian

We will go fossil hunting! But we will do this in the classroom during this hands оn activity!  Participants will work in pairs and clean and then sort through a sample of fossil-rich sediment from North Carolina, U.S.A. In this sediment there are some tiny complete fossils (a few mm in length) and also a lot of shell fragments from shelled-creatures (also fossils). From the collected fossils participants will identify their fossils and consider what fossils can tell us about the past.

Michael Sandy spent his professional career as a teacher and researcher of geology in the UK and the USA. Today he lives in Bulgaria and continues his passion for fossils and geology through public outreach.