Below you will conduct several experiments to see how you can use energy from the sun. Back at school, students can discuss the results of these experiments and how they can use solar energy at school and at home. Fossil Hunt Students hunt for fossils in a pile of stones. They use the repeating patterns of either circles, squares or lines to find the fossils. Afterwards they draw and identify the fossil.
New Jersey has a lot of great places to look for fossils.
Fossils are the remains or traces of some part of the anatomy of once-living things that are older than our recent geological experience. A fossil may be the preserved remains of the organism itself, the impression of it in the sediment, or marks made by the organism while it was alive. The age of a tree can be determined by counting its growth rings. These rings occur due to seasonal changes in weather. Trees of the same type growing in the same area grow at the same rate.