Explore Mary Anning and fossils through drawing, vocabulary, geography and writing. This 20-page activity booklet brings together practical and written tasks for ages 6–8, with adult support as needed.

Includes:
• Three step-by-step drawing activities: Mary Anning, an ichthyosaur skull and a plesiosaur skeleton, each with a word-box sentence task
• A five-piece cut-and-stick plesiosaur fossil puzzle
• Two fossil dictionary activities, including alphabetical order, plus a separate challenge-word page
• A map activity locating Dorset and London
• Interview question prompts
• Draw-and-describe pages for Mary and an ichthyosaur skull
• An imagined speech-bubble activity
• A Mary Anning fact-sheet template
• Contents, teacher guidance and three pages of suggested answers

Use selected pages within a topic, for follow-up work or for supported home learning. Children practise observation, vocabulary, asking questions and descriptive writing while exploring a significant historical individual.

Please read about Mary Anning together before starting. This activity pack does not include a full biography; a suitable book or the linked museum reading can provide the background. Children will need a dictionary or adult vocabulary support, pencils, scissors and glue.

The drawing guides, puzzle and map are simplified teaching illustrations. Imagined dialogue is clearly distinguished from historical fact. Activity pages can be printed in black and white.

20-page digital PDF. The reading-comprehension pack and 3D skeleton crafts mentioned in the booklet are available separately.