Mary Anning Primary Resources

A Collection of KS2 Mary Anning Resources

Here, you will find a range of engaging Mary Anning KS2 resources, perfect to use when introducing the famous palaeontologist to your KS2 students. Take a look through the collection and find the resources and activities suitable for you and your children.

All of our resources are teacher-made, they are reliable teaching materials and we hope that with them we are able to offer a helping hand when teaching your children.

Ranging from PowerPoints, writing frames and fact sheets, to display posters and word mats, we offer an array of Mary Anning resources. All of which include colourful illustrations.

Engaging Mary Anning KS2 Resources To Use In The Classroom and At Home

All of our Mary Anning resources can be simply downloaded and/or printed for use in the classroom, or at home. Introducing your children to Mary Anning? Take a look at this Mary Anning Significant Individuals Fact Sheet, perfect for your KS2 children.

Teaching your children about Mary Anning involves introducing new and exciting scientific and prehistoric topics to your KS2 children such as palaeontology, fossils and dinosaurs.

Looking for more prehistoric resources? This collection of KS2 prehistoric resources includes a range of resources about dinosaurs and fossils, allowing your children to explore the prehistoric world.

Top 5 Mary Anning Facts

• Mary Anning was born in 1799 in Dorset, England.
• She was a famous palaeontologist, discovering a variety of fossils on the Dorset coast, rich in fossils from the Jurassic period, now aptly named the Jurassic Coast due to her discoveries.
• Mary Anning's first fossil discovery was that of a marine reptile that swam during the time of Dinosaurs, it was later named Ichthyosaurus, also known as 'Fish Lizard'.
• Anning made discoveries of other fossils in 1823 and 1828.
• Other discoveries include the Plesiosaur and Dimorphodon.

Why is Mary Anning's work important?

Mary Anning's work was important because she discovered some of the first recorded fossils, off the coast of her home town of Lyme Regis. Among Mary Anning's discoveries was a Plesiosaur skeleton and the skeleton of a flying reptile that was later be named the Pterodactyl. Mary Anning taught herself geology, anatomy and scientific illustration and used these skills to further her career as a fossil hunter and a scientist.

Mary Anning's findings were incredibly significant, but she was not taken seriously by the scientific community at the time because of her poor background and the fact that she was a woman. Several male scientists attempted to steal her ideas and even claim her findings as their own, but today Mary Anning is recognised as an important figure in the field of palaeontology and science.

One of Mary Anning's first and most significant finds, the Ichthyosaurus that she discovered near the coast of her home town, has been displayed in multiple museums including the Natural History Museum in London. Mary Anning's discoveries helped to shape our understanding of the history of our planet and changed the course of scientific research into the evolution of life forever.