Artwork

According to current evidence, Earth is old. Really old. So old that we can't really easily wrap our brains around how old it is.This amazing video puts Earth's history to scale on a football field, so we can make comparisons about the events which have happened on Earth over time.

We loved learning from this PowToon video about the Law of Superposition and relative dating. We learned that sedimentary rock strata (layers) are formed one on top of the other, so that the oldest layers are on the bottom. This can help us put events in order using the concepts of relative dating.

I led the students through this investigation to learn how sedimentary strata are formed. Then we drew diagrams to represent the layers we made, and talked about which layers were oldest and which were youngest, based on our observations.

Fossils can tell us a lot about the past. This video explains a little more about fossils, how they are formed, and what we can learn from them!

We are scientists, and have been investigating our world to see if we can make scientific arguments about how our world works, and what it used to look like.
We watched this video and looked for the components of a solid scientific argument: a claim, some evidence, and some reasoning.

This animation shows every recorded earthquake in sequence as they occurred from January 1, 1901, through December 31, 2000, at a rate of 1 year per second.

20th Century seismology revealed the global geographic distribution of earthquakes and helped to solidify the Theory of Plate Tectonics. Notice how earthquake epicenters do not occur randomly in space but form patterns over the earth’s surface, revealing the boundaries between tectonic plates as shown toward the end of this animation.