Mary Anning – KQ3 – What sort of person was Mary that helped her to succeed in a man’s world?

This a much shorter enquiry than the others, and comprises just three short activities

Step 1

Having recapped the story of Mary’s life, ask pupils to work in small groups to generate adjectives to describe Mary’s character.

Step 2

Pupils are then shown a list of pre-prepared adjectives on slide 2 of the Key question 3 PowerPoint. Which do they think are the most appropriate to describe Mary, and which aren’t applicable at all? Pupils cheer or boo as the adjectives appear!

Step 3

Pupils have to match adjectives with actions using slide 4 of the PPt . Which action shows:
– She was brave when she walked under the rocks that fell down when looking for fossils
– She was clever because when could tell how all the bones fitted together in a dinosaur skeleton
– She was determined to do everything she could to get enough money for