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British Geological Survey: Past Climates Examples
Describes the climates during several periods in the Earth's history.
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Earth's Water: Lakes and Reservoirs
The USGS reviews the differences between lakes and reservoirs. They discuss the history of freshwater and salt water lakes. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.
BBC
Bbc Nature: Prehistoric Life
Explore life on ancient Earth with this site! Students can walk with dinosaurs to see what Earth looked like or investigate Earth's history. The site includes articles, pictures, timelines, and lots more.
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Here Is Today
Take a look at this snapshot in time of Earth's history. This interactive timeline shows a unique perspective of where we are in historical and geologic time.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Personal Timeline
Use this activity to help students understand the history of Earth by creating their own timeline of their life. By creating their timeline, students can see the resemblance and make connections between Earth's history and their own....
University of California
Ucmp: A Relative Dating Activity
An learning activity to help learners grasp the concept of relative dating and geologic time.
Other
Exploring Origins Project: Exploring Life's Origins
Explore life's evolutionary history on the planet through molecular illustrations and animations. Pictorial evidence is based on origin of life research and theory.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Origins: The Origins Game
Choose the location on an interactive world map to locate where historical scientific events took place. Test your knowledge of various notable accomplishments and discoveries related to the origins of the universe and the Earth.
US Geological Survey
Usgs: What Is Geologic Time?
Understand the evidence for ancient earth and the geologic time scale. Learn on this site how the earth can help scientist date discoveries.
PBS
Pbs: Nova: Learning About Earth's History With Ice Cores
This resource explains how ice cores are used to analyze past events like air pollution, volcanic activity, climate changes, and radioactivity.
University of California
Ucmp: Sequencing Time
Lesson plan in which students place events in sequence, comparing their life to the history of the Earth.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Fossils: Footprints Across Time
Smithsonian Education presents "Fossils: Footprints Across Time." Teachers can download this teaching package that introduces students to the study of fossils. Students will discover what fossils can teach us about the Earth as it was...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: This Threshold Today
An activity for students to research the conditions that allowed for the formation of our planet. Is there any resources that exist today that existed then?
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Four Ways to Understand the Earth's Age
The Earth is 4.6 billion years old- but how can humans relate to a number so colossal, and where do we fit on the geologic timeline? Joshua Sneideman reminds us of our time and place in the universe. [3:45]
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Earth Surface Dynamics (Research Activities)
This site from USGS provides several activities to help understand the interrelationships among earth surface processes, ecological systems, and human activities. Also included are links to new findings and programs concerning Earth...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Principle of Horizontality Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide briefly summarizes key points about the Principle of Horizontality and how it relates to sedimentary rock formation. Includes a few questions to...
Other
Siemens Stem Day: Life Science: The Time of Our Life [Pdf]
Students will learn about ancient organisms as they create a timeline showing when they appeared on Earth.
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Photo Glossary
A glossary of geological terms with photos to accompany definition.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Landscape Evolution
In this amazing online tutorial you will learn about how water, mass wasting, weathering, and erosion have help shape the landforms on Earth. The lesson includes many helpful interactive materials to prepare help you understand landscape...
Treehut
Suzy's World: Life on Earth
This site from Suzy's World, which is a personal site from Suzy Cato, explores what evolution is, and how long there has been life on earth. Content includes fun facts, a great experiment, and a classroom activity.
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Atmosphere and Oceans: The Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen
An explanation of the Earth's atmosphere and how it has evolved over geologic time.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Anthropocene
What kind of evidence could demonstrate that humans have begun to dominate and alter the life systems of Earth and have entered a new geological epoch? This article discusses the suggestion that we have entered the Anthropocene and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Claim Testing: Geology and the Earth's Formation
An activity where students investigate how scientist study plate tectonics.
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science:ms Ls4 1: Fossil Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity
Young scholars analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on earth under the assumption that natural laws...