Unit Five: Age of Rocks

What will be graded in this section:

In Class: CSI Frosty
In Class: Half-Life worksheet
In Class: Dating Game Phet
In Class: Relative Dating Practice Problems
In Class: Soil

CSI Frosty

Frosty has met his demise! Use the materials at your desk to determine who ended the beloved characters life.

Half Life / Radiometric Dating Game

Half Life

Use coins and dice to determine how decaying atoms can be graphed over time.

PHET Dating Game

This interactive allows you to download or use from the web the game: Radioactive Dating. Click on Radioactive Dating Game to enter and play. You will learn more about how radioactivity helps geologists date items.

Linear, Quadratic, Exponential FunctionsLinear, Quadratic, Exponential Functions

Relative Dating

Use the rules of relative dating to determine the age of rock layers.

Practice Link:

Homework Links:

Relative Dating Example 1 - or Do the Google Form "Relative Dating Trial"
Relative Dating Example 2 - Bonus, submit a screenshot of the final order.
Visualize Geology - create your own rock layers

Soil

Determine how soil is created and what layer of soil is the oldest.