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Geologic Time Scale
In this geologic time scale learning exercise, students use a word bank to complete the geologic time scale provided. Students fill in the chart as it relates to the geologic time scale.
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Leveled Problem Solving Order of Operations
In this order of operations practice worksheet, learners sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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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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Making Good Impressions
Fourth graders participate in an experiment where they experiment with impression fossils. They identify and describe the measurable attributes of the impression fossils. There are many parts and materials for this experiment.
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Earth Time Scale
Students research the past eras in history including the Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and the Cenozoic. In this time scale lesson students take part in a lab that allows the students a better understanding of the timeline of these...
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WHY WE AREN'T FILTER FEEDERS
Students describe three methods of obtaining food: scavenging, filter feeding, and hunting. They describe three methods of obtaining food: scavenging, filter feeding, hunting, and list at least two reasons why humans are not considered...
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Dino Detectives
As students examine maps of Utah, 4th graders search for clues about what prehistoric life was like in Utah.
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Introduction to Paleontology Lab
Pupils engage in a lab which introduces them to fossils and paleontology. They examine eleven numbered boxes containing fossils which are related to the questions on this lab then answer questions on a lab sheet imbedded in this plan.
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From Lake to Lake
Fourth graders investigate the formation of the Great Salt Lake. They conduct research using a variety of resources. The information is used to construct a timeline of the history. Each phase of history should include facts and...
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Crystals & Fossils
In this earth science worksheet, students identify and locate vocabulary terms related to crystals and fossils. There are 32 words located in the puzzle.
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Tucson Children's Museum Dino Crossword
In this crossword puzzle, middle schoolers complete a crossword puzzle related to dinosaurs, the era in which dinosaurs lived, and about other animals that lived during that time period.
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Making Materials for Parts of a Fossil
Students create fossil books to study the process for crinoid fossilization. For this fossils lesson, students color and identify the fossilization process of a crinoid. Students then create a booklet out of the information.
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The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii: A Guide to the Order of Trilobites
The trilobite of the months greets you on this award winning site that provides an immense data base of facts on this fascinating but extinct arthropod. Start with the Introduction in the left hand menu bar for easy to understand...
Indiana University
Indiana Univ. Bloomington: Geo Notes: Trilobites: Denizens of Ancient Seas [Pdf]
Presents some facts about trilobites, extinct arthropods from the Cambrian to Permian Periods.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Paleobiology: The Cambrian Period
Journey into the past while reading this comprehensive overview of the Cambrian Period that covers topics such as the Cambrian Explosion, Burgess Shale fauna, trilobites, fossil evidence, and climate and plate tectonics.
University of California
Ucmp: Introduction to Trilobita
One of the most famous fossil organisms, trilobites were once a complex group. Learn to tell them apart in this illustrated article that tells how they lived, their body structure, there place in evolution, and the like.
University of California
University of California Museum of Paleontology: The Arthropod Story
Go back in time to discover the evolutionary story of the arthropod and what this phylum of the animal kingdom looks like today.
Children's Museum
Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Geo Mysteries: Broken Necklace Mystery
A fun fossil activity for younger students.
Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum, London, England
Great site providing a "Quickindex" to find various resources. Also included are links to more information on this museum.
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Fossil Museum: Fossil Sites
Twenty different international fossil sites are listed with links to pictures of fossils found at each site.
University of California
Ucmp: Dinosaurs, Movies, & Reality
A very good review of how "movie science" can present an inaccurate or incomplete picture of actual scientific knowledge and methods.
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: Species, Speciation and the Environment
The American Institute of Biological Sciences offers this article by Niles Eldredge, evolutionary theorist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History. Eldredge begins with Darwin's theories and summarizes subsequent thought,...
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