Fossil Walk

July 25th, 2009 | Posted by Alison in Life

Today’s homeschooling adventure was just that – quite the adventure!

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We met up with a bunch of homeschooling families today for a Fossil Walk.

Fossil Dig Activity Sheet

We took a 10 minute hike through this creek bed to make our way to the dig site.

More Creek Walking

Creek Walk

Quite the Adventure

Holy bedrock.

Dig Site

This was the first fossil we found, which explains why I took a picture of it. We “think” this was a part of a trilobite – an extinct marine creature that is only a mere 380 million years old. Finding pieces of a trilobite is common, finding a trilobite perfectly in tact is rare and would score you major archeology nerd points. No one hit the fossil jackpot today, but we had fun trying.

Trilobite

These cliffs are made of shale and are loaded with fossilized creatures just waiting to be uncovered by crunchy granola parents and their offspring.

Creek Bed

We found a half dozen fossils and walked the banks to dig into the cliffs for about an hour before breaking for our picnic lunch.

I packed the left over curried chickpea sandwich spread from the other day to make a half sandwich with whole wheat bread. PB&J for Ava, and a Rubbermaid crudites for some crunching!

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Chomp chomp!

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Some dried apricots, raisins, cranberries and walnuts for a little something sweet.

dried_fruit_nuts

After lunch we made our way to a second site, an old railroad bed for more fossil fury!

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Back home and feeling a little fossilized myself, I made myself my usual romain, spinach, apple, lemon, ginger and cucumber glass of green goodness.

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Drinking this in the late afternoon always throws me for a loop! It left me with no real appetite for dinner and I randomly snacked on miscellaneous dried fruit, nuts and veggies throughout the early evening.

I also ate some cooked sweet corn with the gals, except I wore my top.

eat_max eat_ava

That’s it! What a day. Archeology ROCKS!


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