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Calling primary school children across the UK!

Deadly 60’s Steve Backshall is inside London’s Natural History Museum, tracking down the Evil Fossil Hunter in this super science Live Lesson!

Can your pupils help Steve and his young team of Live Lessons palaeontologists solve a series of clues and catch the Evil Fossil Hunter before he manages to escape with a stolen artefact?

This interactive adventure, in partnership with the Natural History Museum, is designed around fossils and what they can teach us about creatures that lived millions of years ago.

We explore how fossils are made and what they can tell us, the story of the real life fossil hunter Mary Anning, and the evolution of animals.

Curriculum links: Science/STEM/The World Around Us for 7-11 year-olds.

How to get involved:

• Download our resources to accompany the Live Lesson here:
  • (PDF, 3.5MB)
  • (PDF, 3.6MB)

Further learning resources

More learning resources for schools on some of the topics covered in this Live Lesson are available from the :

• - how changes in the environment affects the survival of peppered moth variations
• - spot the adaptations in Darwin's finches
• - learn how fossils are made
• - explore the process in more detail

Supporting resources from Twinkl

This Live Lesson is supported by free teaching resources from , additional materials that can be used before and after the Live Lesson to help extend the learning. Download today using the links below:

This can be used alongside a reading comprehension activity about Mary Anning:

• Reading comprehension activity sheet for ages 7 to 9 - and
• Reading comprehension activity sheet for ages 9 to 11 - and