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- Grade Range
- 8th - 11th
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Students are taken on a simulated "voyage" backward in time, to the beginning of our planet. They "witness" that beginning, the origin of life, and a number of key events from then to the present. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students explore deep time by visiting an interactive timeline, by setting up a live-action student timeline somewhere in their school, and by comparing geologic time periods to the familiar calendar year. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 12th
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Students create enhanced timelines using software that includes drawing tools which let the student include photographs, illustrations, and music in their timelines. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students develop a timeline that depicts geologic development and the history of life. They write an interpretive analysis essay that discusses and reflects on their observations. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students work with a partner to research, design and create a timeline that shows the evolution of the Earth in a scaled format. They include all major eras and indicate the scale factor they used in the design of their timeline. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students examine the differences between the geologic eras. Using this information, they relate it to the appearance of different organisms in a fossil record. They use their chairs to represent specific events in the geological history of the Earth. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze the geologic time scale. They discuss how scientists utilize the fossil record, and create a timeline of the history of life on Earth. Full Review »
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- 6th - 10th
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Students construct a geologic timeline the size of a football field. They work in small groups to calculate the yardage for significant events in the Earth's history and then as a class pace out all of the events. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students are assigned significant geologic events in Earth's history. They convert the date of the events into distances and then space themselves (on an outside playing field) away from other groups, to represent time between various events. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students view geologic time lines and discuss how old the Earth and solar system is, when dinosaurs roamed Earth, and when humans first appeared. They review the four major eons and life that was present in each before creating a time line on adding paper to represent the Phanerozoic eon. Full Review »
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