Brainstorm and plan. 

Joan Wiffen

Structure	Topic	Words and ideas to use
Introduction
Paragraph 2	Early life	Born in ??  Lived where??Married to…?? KIds??What was her job??  First fossil she ever had was given an Ammonite (fossil of an ancient squid) that made her interested in finding fossils.
Paragraph 3	Discovering fossils	First in NZ. 1975. Mangahouanga Stream in Hawke’s Bay. dinosaur tailbone from a theropod.  From six different species. Joan and family and friends.  Fossils were in rocks, used some special tools to split the rocks open, carried it to her car.
Paragraph 4	Changing ideas about fossils	An Australian paleontologist Dr Ralph Molnar confirmed it was a dinosaur bone in 1980.  Other people started looking for fossils and found some - page 24.
Paragraph 5	Later life	Honorary doctorate in 1994.  Died in ??  She is remembered - her fossils are kept safe . Some are at the University of Auckland, some are at National Paleontological collections at GNS Science in Lower hutt. The first one she found is on display at Te Papa.
Conclusion	Her work	Joan work was important to her.

30 june 2009 (age 87)                                 she was part of world war two

Fossil hunter                                                 The Havelock North 87-year-old, who was 

NZ/Hawkes Bay

4 February 1922

pont wiffen and they had two kids

Jona wiffen passed away in 2009 (age 87) passed

away in Hawkes

Bay and she was born in 4 February 1922.

She was part of world war two, she had two kids and her husband

is named pont wiffen.

She found in the first fossil in NZ it was a theropod tail

bone 50mm, theropod foot 97mm, pterosaur wing 102mm,

and sauropod tail 130mm.

In 19,Joan Wiffen found the first dinosaur fossil in new

zealand (a small piece of a dinosaurs tailbone.)

Joan wiffen wanted to be a paleontologist but she only

discovered them  but when she grew up she was a paleontologist.

In 1980 a Australian paleontologist Dr Ralph Molnar

confirmed that it was a dinosaur bone. Other people

started searching for fossil and a man called Dr Greg

Browne and he found a Dinosaur footprint in Nelson

another man named Jeffery Stilwell found  Several dinosaur

bones in the Chatham Islands and another named Brendan Hayes

found a very small finger bone of a theropod dinosaur in the South

of Port Waikato.