Fossil Dig with Head Start!

Education team member sits on a chair and holds a book she is reading to a group of children — Florida Museum photo by our education team

What a dino-mite week at Head Start! Ingrid M. Pérez Torres, our new Outreach Education Assistant, and the education team wrapped up our prehistoric series with a hands-on Fossil Dig.

Kids learned about plaster jackets, dig tools like shovels and sifters, and uncovered ancient fossils including shark teeth!

From roaring dinos to buried bones, this journey through time was a blast!

overhead photo of two plastic tubs, one filled with gravel, the other a collection of fossils and shark teeth. Several young children are digging though the gravel to find more fossils.

Florida Museum photo by our education team

Overhead photo of two young children digging through a tub of gravel to find fossils

Florida Museum photo by our education team

Overhead photo of young children placing found fossils in a plastic bin

Florida Museum photo by our education team