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Build Your Concentration - Five A Day - Connect
Five a Day theme - Connect
- Take a minute or two to look at this beautiful fossil of a crinoid and observe some details about it
- Try answering these five questions by jotting a few words in each of the shapes below, one answer per shape
- How many different and subtle colours can you see? Look closely, the fossil is not all grey!
- How many different patterns can you see?
- How does the light fall on this fossil?
- Is it a plant or animal?*
- Where did it live, on land or sea?* * Answers at bottom of the page
- If you look closely...
“I enjoyed really looking and focusing on one object in the collection. It made me look at the fossil differently. It was relaxing and thought-provoking.”
“The fossil is beautiful and the colours are very subtle. Looking at it made me feel curious to find out more.”
* Crinoids, also known as sea lilies or feather stars, are marine animals. They live both in shallow and deep-sea waters. There are a few hundred modern forms, but many more species existed in the past.
