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NGSS: 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 operate today as in the past (MS-LS4-1)
Google Doc Worksheet (Go to file and Make a copy or get in your teacher's Google Classroom)
Vocabulary: fossil, fossilization, fossil record, relative dating, amber, impressions, invertebrates, mineralization, paleontologists, radio-carbon dating, species, trace fossil.
1. What are fossils? Watch the movie and answer the Edpuzzle questions:
3. Look at the PowerPoint and explain what relative dating and Index fossils are.
interactive: Fossils are created over time
b. When was the theory of fossils first understood?
c. What is Paleontology?
d. What Latin word does the term fossil come from?
Anatomy Adventure: Reconstruct a skeleton
a. Where is your expedition?
b. What was your spectacular discovery?
c. What did you use to protect your discovery?
d. Reconstruct the arm, what did you learn?
e. Reconstruct the leg, what did you learn?
Activity: Dinomight
Fossils: (click arrow)
a. What are trace fossils?
b. What are mold fossils?
c. What is a Resin fossil?
d. What is a Body Fossil?
4. For the last 300 years scientists have been gathering evidence for evolutionary change; explain how scientists use the fossil record to show change over time.
a. Over millions of years _____________? (finish the sentence)
b. What happens once a species becomes extinct?
c. What did you learn as you put the fossils in order?
Information: Deep Time
a. What was Hadean Earth and when was it?
b. Name 3 things that happened in the Hadean period.
c. Name 3 things that happened in the Archaean period.
d. Name 3 things that happened in the Cambrian period.
e. What are the next 3 eras after Rodinia?
5. What information can be learned from patterns in fossil records?
Watch the movie and answer the questions:
a. What happens when an animal dies?
b. What is a trilobite?
6. What evolutionary relationships exist among organisms and fossil organisms?
Watch the movie and answer the Edpuzzle questions.
7. What is the Geologic Column and what do scientists use it for?
Watch the movie and answer the Edpuzzle questions.
8. Adventure Quest BackPack: Make a poster that demonstrates how an insect might become a fossil. You can use any of the applications in Google Drive.
Extras (If you have extra time come back and complete)
Interactive: The Fossil Record
Information: Dating Rocks and Fossils
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