Ninth graders use maps to identify landscape regions and drainage patterns producing the Black River. They create PowerPoint presentations pertaining to the Black River watershed, its geologic history and highlighting safe rafting...

Students create a simple tool to visualize geologic time. They create knots to represent the K/T, P/T and Precambrian boundaries in a 4.6 meter string with each millimeter representing one million years. They then refer back to this...

Geology can be a lot of fun. Learners review geology related vocabulary, make flashcards, use encyclopedias to answer questions, then explore the formation of coal. They identify dates and order them into key time frames of geologic...

Discover the natural resources in Iowa by studying it's history. In this environmental instructional activity, your students will observe a topographical map of Iowa and identify where its most valuable resources are. They complete an...

Students reconstruct the skeleton of the fossil Scaphognathus crassirostis. For this fossil lesson plan, students discuss the Kingdoms of life, geologic history and the history of the skeletons of species. Students are given 20 minutes...

Students examine and demonstrate the extent of geologic time compared to recent time. They develop a demonstration of geologic time using an unrolled roll of toilet paper, with each sheet of toilet paper representing 20 million years.

Eighth graders investigate the presence of talc in the geologic record. The different characteristics of talc is covered. The instructional activity includes background information for the teacher.

In this science worksheet, students use their notes from the Eyewitness video on dinosaurs to help them select the correct answer for each question. They identify various types of dinosaur fossils found and their specific names.

In this earth science instructional activity, students match each vocabulary term, that names something specific related to earth science, with its correct description found in the right column. They identify different types of...

An excellent overview of the Paleozoic Era. It also provides a chart where you can learn information regarding each of the time frames within the era.

Provides a detailed discussion of the Paleozoic Era and a timeline of its periods and epochs. Looks at geological and tectonic events, climate changes, flora and fauna, and a mass extinction event.

This lesson illustrates the paleozoic era of the history of the earth. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Paleozoic Era."

A brief overview illustrating the Paleozoic era in Earth's geologic history.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] From the beginning with the Cambrian explosion and ending with the Permian extinction students will go in depth studying the Paleozoic Era that occurred hundreds of...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how events during the Paleozoic Era impacted evolution.

This lesson illustrates the paleozoic era of the history of the earth. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Paleozoic Era."

This site contains a chart showing the progression of the Paleozoic Era. Each section of the chart leads to information about the geological, biological, and climatic elements of a specific period of the era.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How shallow seas appeared and disappeared throughout the Paleozoic Era.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Patterns of biological evolution during the Paleozoic Era.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Patterns of biological evolution during the Paleozoic Era.

Explore this impressive compilation of scientific research focused on the Carboniferous Period in the late Paleozoic Era.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Provides a brief overview of plate tectonic activity during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras and the changes in sea level that occurred. Includes some questions to...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Reveals that during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic, six marine transgressions and regressions caused sea level to rise over the continents, leaving evidence in rocks in...

Use this study guide to understand the history of Paleozoic Life.