Queen's College Year 3 visit to the Botanical Gardens in Soller. | Queen's College

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The children in Year 3 at Queen's College have been studying plants and fossils this term; to complement their work, a trip to the Botanical Gardens in Soller was planned.

The Botanical Gardens, Soller.

The children took part in two very exciting workshops. The first involved a study of the flora and fauna within the botanical gardens. The children studied the different parts of a plant, how to tell how old a tree might be, how plants survive and the process of pollination.

Revealing the megalodon tooth.

The second workshop involved a fossil study. The group discovered how fossils are formed and were even able to investigate a megalodon tooth!. They were able to observe a life size replica of a sea mammal. Despite the rain, the children loved their visit to Soller.

Scraping away at the rock

Dusting the megalodon tooth.

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Back at school Year 3 made their own megalodon tooth out of clay, they then buried their "tooth" in a man-made "rock" which they then had to carefully excavate using the skills of paleontologists and special tools and brushes to remove the fossil without breaking it. The children needed a steady hand and a lot of patience! It was messy work but well worth it!

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