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Earth Epochs
Students explore earth epochs, i.e, Permian, Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordivician and through pictures they see what life on Earth and animals looked like. They organize Earth Epochs according to years going from greatest to least...
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Earth's Surfaces
Students identify and define geology and earth surface vocaulary and their meanings to classify rocks and explore caves and their properties. Students find rocks and test them according to Moh's scale. They create a color coded earth...
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Martian Mummies
Students participate in "Raiders of the Future", a role play about futuristic scientists sending a spaceship to Mars for research and exploration. They collect geological samples for analysis, discover the ruins of an ancient...
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Relative Ages of Rocks
In this rocks worksheet, students review how sediments are layered over time and how the relative ages of rocks are determined. This worksheet has 1 matching and 11 multiple choice questions.
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What's It All About?- Kansas Prairies
Students examine the interdependence of animal life and the environment. In this Kansas prairies lesson, students read background information on prairies and complete a worksheet to identify the main idea.
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Searching the Digital Atlas
High schoolers become familiar with the tools of a digital atlas. They use a digital atlas of Idaho to located specified information. Students identify national forests, locate butterfly families, find examples of resident fish, and...
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The Laughing Leaf
Students demonstrate real-object writing. They discuss a leaf that has human attributes, and using a real leaf write a story about a leaf that tells them a joke, and create an illustration of themselves and their leaf.
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Creating Journals
Students take a virtual tour of Yosemite and selects photographs to use in their journal.
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Good Timing
Students examine sculptures which include animal figures made of different metals. They create their own sculptures of watches to represent a phrase about time.
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Biology: Natural Selection
Young scholars explore evolutionary processes and theories using the spotted fish applet. They observe what happens to fish in a closed environment with both food and predators. Students run the model several times and answer questions...
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Please Ex-Planet
Seventh graders create a model of an earth centered solar system and a model of the sun centered solar system. As a class, they discuss why the earlier astronomers believed their model and why it changed when evidence arose that this...
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Acid Rain
Students investigate the quality of water using a variety of methods. They use a pH probe to measure the pH and study the effect of dissolved CO2 in the water. Students also observe the effect of the pH upon the dissolving of H2SO4 in...
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Around Derby Museum and Art Gallery 2
In this Derby museum and Art Gallery worksheet, students answer several questions about the Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Students answer 15 questions.
Curated OER
Core
Eighth graders examine conditions that can lead to the formations found and correlate the layers. In this rock layers lesson students complete an activity that allows students to take their own "core sample".
Utah Education Network
Uen: Fossil Formation Fun
In this instructional activity, 4th graders will compare and understand the three types of fossils.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:4 Investigation 3 Examining Your Fossil
Investigation allows students to draw conclusions about the environment of fossils made previously.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:4 Investigation 1 Identify & Compare Fossils
Fourth graders will look at different items to see if they can recognize fossils.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: Evolution: How to Become a Fossil
Learn about what a fossil is, the different types that scientists use for study, and processes that form them. [2:57]
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: Types of Fossils
This particular site is part of a larger online exhibit from the Natural History Museum covering various aspects of fossils and fossil research. Here, seven types of fossils are listed and each type is given a picture representation.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Types of Fossilization
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Five methods that create fossils.
University of California
University of California Museum of Paleontology: Fossil Evidence
Understanding Evolution provides evidence for evolution using fossils. There are also links to lesson plans.
Indiana University
Indiana University Bloomington: Identifying 3 D Fossil Prints [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will identify three-dimensional (3-D) prints of common Indiana fossils to the kingdom, phylum, or class level. Students will observe and record the morphology of specimens and classify organisms based on their...
Other
E Fossils: Comparative Anatomy
Learning about fossils? Select from six types of bones and proceed through the options of view, hominin, specimen, sex, age and tool marks for visual images of fossils.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Layers of Time: Fossil Game
Game through which students order layers of sedimentary rock, from oldest to newest, based on the type of fossils they contain.