Mr and Mrs Smiths Life Science: Life Changes Over Time

Day 1

Topic
4-1 What is Evolution?
19-3 What is evolution?

Objectives
Define evolution, mutation, and adaptation.
Explain how organisms change because of adaptations and mutations.
Identify organisms that have changed due to adaptations and mutations.
Use fossils to identify geological eras.

State Goals
12.A.4c Describe processes by which organisms change over time using evidence from comparative anatomy and physiology, embryology, the fossil record, genetics, and biochemistry.

Classwork-Homework
Vocabulary
Evolution: Process by which organisms change over time
Mutation: Change in a gene
Adaptation: Trait that helps an organism in its environment

Globe Fearon 4-1 What is evolution? p.98
19-3 What is evolution? pp. 386-387
Design-a-Saur

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Prentice Hall 25-1 Evolution:Change Over Time pp.632-633

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Day 2

Topic
4-2 What are fossils?
19-1 How are fossils formed?

Objectives
Explain how different kinds of fossils are formed
Define fossils.
Name the kind of rock most fossils are found in.

State Goals
12.E.4b Describe how rock sequences and fossil remains are used to interpret the age and changes in the Earth.

Classwork-Homework
Vocabulary
Fossil: Remains or traces of once-living organisms.

Kinds of Fossils

Dinosaur footprints in mud

Mammoth frozen in ice

Insect trapped and preserved in amber

Most: Remains of hard parts of organisms, such as bones, teeth, and shells.

Globe Fearon 4-2 What Are Fossils? pp.100-101
19-1 How are fossils formed? pp. 382-383
Rock Cycle - Past Life p.3-5

Rock Cycle - Past Life p.6 Pleiosaurus and Ichthyosaurus

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Prentice Hall 25-2 Evidence of Evolution pp.633-634

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Day 3

Topic Where the Hippos Roam: Simulate a fossil dig.

Objectives
Create a map of a fossil site that describes ancient conditions.
Describe how the environment of a fossil site has changed over time.
Explain how inferenves about the Earth's history are made.
Describe how the evidence of fossils and types of rock are used to infer ancient conditions.
Determine the problems involved in interpreting fossil data.
Predict where a certain type of life form can be found.

State Goals

Classwork-Homework

What If They Just Keep On Digging

When the Crocodiles Ruled Mapping a fossil site.

Student Page

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Day 4

Topic Fossil Exploration

Objectives
Understand the basics of fossil formation.
Grasp the importance of fossils to scientists.
Identify at least six important fossils and understand some of their basic anatomy.

State Goals
12.A.3c Compare and contrast how different forms and structures reflect different functions

Classwork-Homework

Fossil Kit I Takes students on an interactive journey into the fascinating world of fossil exploration and identification. Activity from Skulldugery. Use these fossils: Cave Bear (Tooth), Crinoid, Allosaurus (Claw), Trilobite, Ammonite, Saber-tooth Tiger (Tooth). Reference page and chart.

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Day 5

Topic
4-3 What evidence supports evolution?
19-5 What evidence supports evolution?

Objectives
Describe evidence that is used to support the theory of evolution.
Observe how horses have changed through time.

State Goals
12.A.4c Describe processes by which organisms change over time using evidence from comparative anatomy and Tenths, embryology, the fossil Tenths, genetics, and biochemistry.

Classwork-Homework
Theory: Evidence for Evolution:
Fossil, Biological, Genetic

  Vestigial Structures:
                      Horse: Toes
                      Whale: Legs

     Similar Structures, Different Functions:
                       Lion and Dog: Foreleg
                       Bat: Wing
                       Dolphin and Whale: Flipper

Globe:Fearon 4-9 p.102

Prentice:Hall 25-8 p.639

    Similarities in Development:
                      Fish, Chicken, Rabbit, Human Embryos

Prentice:Hall 25-10 p.64

Comparing Genes

Globe Fearon 4-3 What evidence supports evolution? pp.102-103
19-5 What evidence supports evolution? pp. 391-392

Comparative Anatomy & Embryology

    According to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the horse became extinct on
             the North American continent around 8000 BC. Spanish explorers reintroduced
             horses to North American in the 1500s.
             Use Globe:Fearon picture 4-9 page 102. Prentice:Hall 25-6 p.638

Lesson Review 19-5

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Prentice Hall 25-2 Evidence of Evolution pp.633-643

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Evolution Lecture Notes
Whales Evolutionary Tale

Fossils of Mesosarus found in Africa and South America.

Whales and Oysters

Frog Embryo Development Study Guide

Day 6

Topic Whale Evolution

Objectives
Recognize the role of predictions in science, and how this helped clarify whale evolution.
Explain the evidence leading to a possible revision in the likely ancestors of whales
Give examples of the mosaic nature of evolution in whales.
Identify which whale-like traits appeared earliest, and which ones appeared later.
Explain how the tectonic movement of India into Asia caused changes in the Tethys Sea, and how those changes may have contributed to the emergence of whales.
Create a data table.

State Goals
12.A.3c Compare and contrast how different forms and structures reflect different functions (e.g., similarities and differences among animals that fly, walk or swim; structures of plant cells and animal cells).

Classwork-Homework
Whales in Transition Go over A and B

Searching for Whale Fossils Use Whales in the Making

Whale Evolution Data Table Use Whales in the Making

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Whale Evolution
Becoming Whales Lesson Plan
Time Line
The Origin of Whales
Whales in Transition Student Handout
Whale Evolution Data Table Worksheet
Whale Evolution
Whale Length Chart
Whales in the Making
Becoming Whales Discussion Questions

Day 7

Topic Great Fossil Find

Objectives
Identify which whale-like traits appeared earliest, and which ones appeared later.
Reconstruct a fossil skeleton.
Create a population graph.

State Goals
12.A.4c Describe processes by which organisms change over time using evidence from comparative anatomy and physiology, embryology, the fossil Vestigial, genetics, and biochemistry.

Classwork-Homework
   Becoming Whales Discussion Questions

   The Great Fossil Find

   Pakicetus Skeleton or S. crassirostris

Skeletal Resource Manual

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Day 8

Topic
4-4 What is natural selection?
19-4 What is natural selection?

Objectives
Explain Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection.
Learn about the life of Charles Darwin
Identify evidence that shows organisms have changed throughout the earth's history.
Understand how fossils are used to support the theory of evolution.
Describe the Earth's past using the fossil record.

State Goals
12.A.4c Describe processes by which organisms change over time using evidence from comparative anatomy and locations into, embryology, the fossil locations into, genetics, and biochemistry.

Classwork-Homework

  Five Elements of Natural Selection
             Over reproduction
             Struggle for Existence
             Variation
             Survival of the Fittest
             Evolution of New Species

Globe Fearon 4-4 What is natural selection? pp.104-105
19-4 What is natural selection? pp. 368-369

Survival of the Fittest

Punch out 100's of circles of Red, Yellow Pink, , Brown, Black and Green construction paper. These are the "bugs".

Mix them up and scatter them in a outside area. Use a 30' X 30' area. I have it outside my window so kids can see.

Send one or two kids to go outside and gather as many "bugs" as they can in 2-3 minutes. They are the predators.

Bring them back in and count and record on a chart the number and color of the "bugs".

Have kids make "hypotheses" as to why the numbers are the way they are.

Kids should realize that the green, brown, and black are more camoflauged and more of them will survive.

Darwin: British Naturalist by Diane Cook Junior Dept: Biographies: Dar

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Prentice Hall 25-3 Charles Darwin and Natural Selection pp.645-648

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Glyptodon Fossil
Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle 1 page of information

Charles Darwin: Introduction to Evolution

Day 9

Topic Darwin

Objectives

State Goals
12.A.4c Describe processes by which organisms change over time using evidence from comparative anatomy and physiology, embryology, the fossil record, genetics, and biochemistry.

Classwork-Homework

Darwin's Principles of Natural Selection:
Overproduction: Lots of eggs, but only a few live to become adults
Variation: Mutation causes some fish to have a curved tail
Adaptation: Curved fin fish escape predators. More curved fish survive to reproduce.
Selection: More fish with curved tail survive to reproduce.

Darwin's Finches

Woodpecker Finch	Long pointed beak	Insect larva from trees
Vegetarian Finch	Curved Beak	Berries from a branch
Large Ground Finch	Large Beak	Crack hard seeds
Cactus Finch	Narrow beak	Cut cactus eat tissue

Finch Beak Picture

The Peppered Moth

Classroom Camouflage: Natural Selection for Beginners
                      Kids use moth cut out and color to blend in the classroom. Allow next class
                    30-60 seconds to find moths. Moths must have name and period number.
                    Moths must be in plain sight. Moths need to survive only one new class.

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Day 10

Topic 4-4 Video Charles Darwin

Objectives

State Goals
12.A.4c Describe processes by which organisms change over time using evidence from comparative anatomy and record, embryology, the fossil record, genetics, and biochemistry.

Classwork-Homework
Video: Origin of the Species 50 minutes Voyage of Charles Darwin on the Beagle

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Charles Darwin: Introduction to Evolution
Darwin's Voyage on the Beagle

Lamarck & Darwin: Comparison of Evolution Mechanisms

Day 11

Topic 4-4 Darwin's Voyage on the Beagle

Objectives
Provide a historical context for the observations that Darwin made during his voyage.
Use original sources to trace Darwin's voyage.
Locate map locations using longitude and latitude.
Explore how Darwin used his observations to formulate his theory of natural selection.

State Goals
12.A.4c Describe processes by which organisms change over time using evidence from comparative anatomy and organism, embryology, the fossil organism, genetics, and biochemistry.

Classwork-Homework

Video: Origin of the Species Finish video

Darwin's Great Voyage of Discovery

  1. Put Darwin's observations of locations into chronological order using Voyage of the Beagle Locations.

   2. Plot the locations on the world map and label them with their name and number the location sequentially ( His starting point is one, his first stop is two, etc. ). McDougall/Littell pp. B18-19 has a map of Darwin's route.

   3. Connect the dots in chronological order to show the path Darwin sailed on the H.M.S. Beagle.

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Darwin's Great Voyage of Discovery

1. Put Darwin's observations of locations into chronological order using Voyage of the Beagle Locations.

2. Plot the locations on the world map and label them with their name and number the location sequentially ( His starting point is one, his first stop is two, etc. ).

3. Connect the dots in chronological order to show the path Darwin sailed on the H.M.S. Beagle.

Resources
Darwin's Voyage on the Beagle

Excerpts from Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle

Day 12

Topic Voyage of the Beagle and Charles Darwin

Objectives
Read for information.
Illustrate a desciption of a historical event.

State Goals
12.A.4c Describe processes by which organisms change over time using evidence from comparative anatomy and organism, embryology, the fossil organism, genetics, and biochemistry.

Classwork-Homework
Voyage of the Beagle or Darwin's Biography

Voyage of the Beagle Questions

On a separate piece of paper draw at least two illustrations from Darwin's descriptions of each location. Number the illustrations with the number from your map of the location.

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About Darwin.com A web site dedicated to the life and times of Charles Darwin

Day 13

Topic 4-5 How does the environment affect natural selection?

Objectives
Describe the ways in which the environment affects natural selection.
Observe the relationship of climate to life on earth.
Analyze possible causes and results of mass extinctions.
Explain what mass extinctions are and when they occur.

State Goals
12.E.5 Analyze the processes involved in naturally occurring short-term and long-term Earth events (e.g., floods, ice ages, temperature, sea-level fluctuations.

Classwork-Homework

Vocabulary
Extinction: dissappearance of all members of a species

Globe Fearon 4-5 How does the environment affect natural selection? 99. 108-109

   Climate Show kids Climate Chart of Earth History

   Mass Extinctions Chart

What Killed the Dinosurs

   Mystery of the Chicxulub Crater

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Globe Fearon 4-5 How does the environment affect natural selection? 99. 108-109

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Mass Extinctions
Precambrian Time

Day 14

Topic
4-6 How have humans changed over time?
19-6 How have humans changed through time?

Objectives
Compare Neanderthal and Cro-magnon species.
Create a map of hominid migration.
Use a migration map to answer questions.

State Goals
12.A.4c Describe processes by which organisms change over time using evidence from comparative anatomy and Cro, embryology, the fossil Cro, genetics, and biochemistry.

Classwork-Homework
Vocabulary
Anthropology: science that deals with the study of human beings

Globe Fearon 4-6 How have humans changed over time? pp. 110-111
19-6 How have humans changed through time? pp. 392-393
Hominid Skulls

Pre-historic Man Chart comparison of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon people.

Hominid Migration
Hand out Hominid Fossil Data and the World Map
Use a different color to locate the fossils for the four hominids.
Answer Hominid Migration Questions.

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Prentice Hall The Path to Modern Humans pp.643-644

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Early hominoid pictures.

Hominids Through Time Comparison of hominoid skeletons and a gorilla.

Day 15

Topic Comparison of human and ape chromosomes

Objectives
Actively engage in the careful analysis of chromosome banding patterns.
Identify examples of inversion in homologous chromosomes.
Associate degrees of similarity with relative timing of evolutionary divergence.
Demonstrate their understanding that degrees of similarities in chromosomes correspond to degrees of evolutionary relationship.

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Classwork-Homework
Becoming Human

1.	Background Information Sheet (2 pages)
2.	Activity Packet (4 pages)
3.	Page of Cutouts to manipulate
4.	Teacher's Answer Key (1 page)
5.	Envelopes (1/team) for 7 paper cutouts to manipulate

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Day 16

Topic Primate Bipedalsim

Objectives
Identify key anatomical similarities and differences between the great apes and humans.
Infer likely anatomical features in ancient human ancestors.
List principal anatomical changes in primates necessary for adaptation to fully bipedal locomotion.
Sequence particular anatomical features in hominids as part of a series of broader evolutionary trends.

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Classwork-Homework
Primate Bipedalism

1.	Student Overview
2.	Reconstructions Page
3.	Human Anatomy
4.	Chimpanzee Anatomy
5.	Australopithecine Anatomy
6.	Student Clues Page
7.	Student Activity Packet
8.	Teacher Answer Pages

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Day 17

Topic Life Cycle

Objectives
Define life cycle.
Identify the stages of the life cycle of organisms.

State Goals
12.A.2a Describe simple life cycles of plants and animals and the similarities and differences in their offspring.

Classwork-Homework

Discuss Life Cycle Just put the bold words on board and have kids fill in life cycles.

Butterfly	Egg, Larva, Pupa, Adult
Frog	Egg, Tadpole, Frog
Humans	Baby, Infant, PreSchooler, Grade Schooler, Middle Schooler, High Schooler, Adult, Parent, Grandparent, Senior Citizen, Old Person
Grasshopper	Egg, Nymph, Adult

Important Events in My Life

1950	Born in Moline
1968	Graduated Moline High School
1971	Drafted into the Army
1977	Graduated from college, ISU
1978	Teaching Job
1980	3 Homeruns in one game
1981	Daughter born
1987	Married
1988	Son born
1991	Daughter born
1993	Car Accident
1995	Masters Degree, WIU
2004	Dad died
2004	First grandchild born
2005	Mom moved

My Life Make a list of the important events in your life

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Day 18

Topic Time Line of Life

Objectives
Create a time line of important events in your life.
Create icons to match the vent.

State Goals
12.A.2a Describe simple life cycles of plants and animals and the similarities and differences in their offspring.

Classwork-Homework
  Time Line Use 11 x 17 paper to create a time line of their life. Use 1" per year.
                      1. Draw a line across your page
                      2. Starting from the left side measure and mark intervals of one inch
                      3. Label each line Born...199?...199?..etc up to their age.
                      4. Neatly record you important events on your time line.
                      5. Put a title on your time line.
                      6. Illustrate event(s) of your life in open spaces.
                                                  -or-
                          Create icons that will identify with your event.
                                Hospital: Red Cross or Broken Bone
                                Born: baby face
                                School: School house or books

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Day 19

Topic What is geologic time?

Objectives
Describe how scientists use the geologic time scale.
Define relative age.
Describe patterns in the fossil record.
Model how scientists analyze the fossil record.

State Goals
12.E.2b Describe and explain short-term and long-term interactions of the Earth's components(e.g., earthquakes, types of erosion).

Classwork-Homework

Formation of Bermuda Drawings from 110 mya to today.

   Who's On First: A Relative Dating Activity

            1. Nonsense syllables cards
                      Explain how letters match up to different horizon levels
            2. View fossil pictures of ancient animals
            3. Earth fossil layer pictures
                      Picture M on bottom Match fossils as you work up
                      Levels spell ORGANISM
            4. Cross out every fossil that has a double. The 5 fossils that are left are index fossils
               used to help determine the age of a fossil.

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Albuquerque's Environmental Story Just like Denver Albuquerque, New Mexico, has an interesting history.

Day 20

Topic Geologic Eras: Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic

Objectives
Name the three time divisions in the geologic time scale.
Describe how the climate and landscape in North America have changed over time.
Name three prehistoric animals and describe their habitat.

State Goals
12.B.1a Describe and compare characteristics of living things in relationship to their environments.

Classwork-Homework
Geologic Time Scale

Cenozoic: Age of Mammals

Mesozoic: Age of Dinosaurs

Paleozoic: Age of Ancient Life

Changing Times Naturescope: Geology: The Active Earth pages 45, 46, and 53

Changing Times Pictures

1	Color the background scenes of ancient Wyoming.
2	Color the mammoth, triceratops, trilobites.
3	Cut the pictures out.
4	Glue the animal picture on the correct habitat picture.
5	Cut the three habitat pictures out.
6	Glue the three pictures near left edge of 8 x 12 construction paper.
7	Add Labels above each picture. Paleozoic Era - 265 Mesozoic era 265mya - 65 mya Cenozoic Era 65 mya - today
8	Use Geologic Time Line to list 5 events for each era. Put events in order.
9	List facts to right of picture.
10	Put a title at the top.
11	Write your name at the bottom.

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Day 21

Topic Fossils, Unicellular & Multicellular Organisms, Mass Extinctions

Objectives
Students will become familiar with events in the Earth's history and how they relate to one another.
Create a human time line of earth history events.

State Goals
12.E.4b Describe how rock sequences and fossil remains are used to interpret the age and changes in the Earth.

Classwork-Homework

What Came First
            1. Have 8 x 12 construction paper with different events in Earth's history listed.
            2. Keep record of event and bya and mya (Billion years ago and million years ago)
            3. Have kids line up one at a time in the order they think the events happened.
            4. Put events (kids in correct order)

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Day 22

Topic Time Line of Geologic Time

Objectives
Name the three eras that the history of life on earth is divided into.
Name examples of life forms that lived in each era.
Students will become familiar with events in the Earth's history and how they relate to one another.

State Goals
12.E.4b Describe how rock sequences and fossil remains are used to interpret the age and changes in the Earth.

Classwork-Homework

Geologic Time Line Book
Create a classroom Time Line Book. Each student will be assigned or choose an event of Earth history. On 8 X 12 paper each student will use the date in time as a title and create a poster of the event. The posters will be assembled in order and a classroom Earth History book will be created. The books may be copied and given to each student. Additional events may be chosen for extra credit. A cover for the book can also be created.

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Geologic Time Line Poster
Each student will be assigned or choose an event of Earth history. Use11 x 18 paper and create an earth history event poster. Additional events may be chosen for extra credit. Make a mark on a wall every 10" and make a small line. You will need 25.5 yards. Counting by 50 million years, label each line: 50 mya, 100 mya, 150 mya, 200 mya and so on. Stop at 4600 mya which would be 4.6 Billion years ago. Have students stand under date in timeline or display posters on the wall.

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"Camels often sit down carefully. Perhaps their joints creak. Possibly, early oiling might prevent painful rheumatism".
Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triasic, Jurrassic, Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pilocene, Pleistecene, Recent

Day 23

Topic Geologic Time Lines

Objectives
Sequence events in Earth history.

State Goals
12.E.4b Describe how rock sequences and fossil remains are used to interpret the age and changes in the Earth.

Classwork-Homework
Succession of Life
Cut, glue, and paste fossils from different geologic periods and then answer questions.

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Geologic Time Line Book Finish

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A Fossil Time Line Create a fossil range chart for ammonites and their relatives in the Class Cephalapoda, which includes modern species such as octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and nautilus. You will then use the information in the chart to determine the age of particular rocks and to predict which rock might contain oil.

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Geologic Time Line Poster Finish

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Page 1 Time Lines Graphics
Page 2 Time Lines Graphics
Page 3 Time Lines Graphics
Page 4 Time Lines Graphics
Page 5 Time Lines Graphics
Page 6 Time Lines Graphics

Day 24

Topic Rock Detectives

Objectives
Describe how fossils can reveal information about the past.
Use clues to solve fossil brain teasers

State Goals
12.A.4c Describe processes by which organisms change over time using evidence from comparative anatomy and hominoid, embryology, the fossil hominoid, genetics, and biochemistry.
12.E.4b Describe how rock sequences and fossil remains are used to interpret the age and changes in the Earth.
12.E.5 Analyze the processes involved in naturally occurring short-term and long-term Earth events (e.g., floods, ice ages, temperature, sea-level fluctuations.

Classwork-Homework
   Rock Detectives Naturescope: Geology: The Active Earth pages50-52, 55-57
             Pass out page 55, occurring page, and go over it.
             Pass out page 57 and read through the clues.
             Pass out Rock Layers page 56

Rock Detective Questions

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Day 25

Topic This web-based module provides students with a basic understanding of how fossils can be used to interpret the past.

Objectives
Fossils provide evidence of past life.
Present-day life forms are descended and modified from past life forms; all life is related. Geological change and biological evolution are linked.
Most species that once lived on Earth have gone extinct.
The patterns of life's diversity through time provide evidence of evolution.
All organisms, including humans, retain evidence of their evolutionary history.
Fossils provide evidence of past life.
There are many sequences of fossils showing transitions from group to group.
Anatomical features are used to infer the relatedness of organisms.

State Goals
12.A.4c Describe processes by which organisms change over time using evidence from comparative anatomy and of, embryology, the fossil of, genetics, and biochemistry.
12.E.4b Describe how rock sequences and fossil remains are used to interpret the age and changes in the Earth.
12.E.5 Analyze the processes involved in naturally occurring short-term and long-term Earth events (e.g., floods, ice ages, temperature, sea-level fluctuations.

Classwork-Homework
Dino-Data

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Day Fit into computer lab schedule

Topic Internet

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Classwork-Homework
Becoming Human
Building Bodies Put an ape and human skeleton together
Calculating Cousins Put living things in order by age
Chromosome Connection Match ape and human chromosomes

Castle Rock Pueblo: A Trip Through Time An ancient village located in the heart of Mesa Verde.

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Activities Labs Art Resources Web Sites

ADAPTATION

How Are Seals Adapted to Their Environment U se the Note Taking Guide with the Adaptation Cards. Students will create posters.

Design-a-Saur Design and assemble a dinosaur. pages 32-35

BERINGIA

Beringia Quest: Ancient Mammals

CAMBRIAN TIME

What Did the Cambrian Look Like?

CENOZOIC ERA

Introduction to the Cenozoic 65 million years ago to the present

Introduction to the Cenozoic Era The Cenozoic, or the Age of the Mammals, could have been called the "Age of Flowering Plants" or the "Age of Insects" or the "Age of Teleost Fish" or the "Age of Birds " just as accurately.

CHICXULUB CRATER

Chicxulub Crater Location Map

Chicxulub Crater Impact Animation

Mystery of the Chicxulub Crater

CLADIOGRAMS

Making Cladiograms

CRETACEOUS PERIOD

Cretaceous Period Major events.

Cretaceous Period Major events of the cretaceous Period 135-63 million years ago. Has pictures.

DARWIN

Excerpts from Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle Voyage of the Beagle Questions

1. Put Darwin's observations of locations into chronological order using Excerpts from Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle or Voyage of the Beagle Locations.
          2. Plot the locations on the world map and label them with their name and number the location sequentially ( His starting point is one, his first stop is two, etc. ).
          3. Connect the dots in chronological order to show the path Darwin sailed on the H.M.S. Beagle.

Darwin's Revolutionary Theory

Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle 1 page about Darwin's trip to Galapagos Islands

Voyage of the Beagle Complete on-line book

About Darwin.com A web site dedicated to the life and times of Charles Darwin

Galapagos Geology on the Web

Virtual Galapagos Explore the natural and human history of Ecuador and the Galápagos

DINOSAURS

Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park Michael Crichton's best-selling novel became a blockbuster movie. While the movie spurred a lot of interest in dinosaur science, and even DNA cloning, the movie also lead some people to wonder what is real and what is fiction. Part of the goal of the exhibit, "The Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park", is to clarify between fact and fiction.

Dinosaur Floor You're on the Dinosaur Floor of the museum. Meet the dinosaurs by visiting any of the rooms.

Dinosaur Safari Take a dinosaur safari through all of the Unnatural Museum's dinosaur related pages. Just work your way down this page taking each of the links to a different dinosaur stop.

Fighting Dinos About 80 million years ago two dinosaurs were locked in deadly combat. The Velociraptor was digging its claw in the Protoceratop's neck, while the Protoceratops bit the Velociraptor's arm with its sharp beak. THEN SUDDENLY they were both buried alive.

Scholastic's Dinosaur Site A great place to start! Check out the activities!!

Virtual Dinosaur Dig Receive a grant from Shale University and you're off on a virtual dig.

Zoom Dinosaur Printouts Neat coloring sheets about the dinosaurs.

ELEPHANT SEAL EVOLUTION

Discovering Northern Elephant Seals Elephant Seal Evolution Lesson Plan 5 page newspaper with questions.

EMBRYOS

Frog Embryo Development Study Guide

Haeckel's Embryo Drawings

Morphing Embryos Human, Pig, Chicken, Fish

EVOLUTION

Evolution of Cartoon Fossils

Evolutionary Maping Project Maping of the development of the Theory of evolution. Research scientists' birth and death dates and their contribution.

Evolution: Its Effect Throughout Geologic Time and the Controversy

Evolution Lecture Notes

Evolution Notes

Principles of Evolution

Evolution: Its Effect Throughout Geological Time and the Controversy See how organisms have changed in different time periods.

Understanding Evolution: The Arthropod Story The Arthropod Story takes you on a tour through the amazing evolutionary history of arthropods. Along the way, you'll get a healthy dose of taxonomy, paleontology, natural history and principles of evolution.

Time Line of Evolutionary Thought Notable people who have contributed to evolutionary thought.

FIELD TRIPS

Petrified Forest

FOSSILS

Determining the Age of Fossil Rocks

Examining the Fossil Record Analyze characteristics of fossils, compare placements of fossils and determine relative ages, and develop a model evolutionary tree based on the morphology and age of fossils.

Fossils in Time 67 page unit

Fossils on the Internet LAB OnLine activity to learn more about fossils.

What If They Just Keep On Digging History of Saskatchawan

Where the Hippos Roam Mapping a fossil site. Directions and Location of Fossil Teeth Use 1 cm graph paper

The Great Fossil Find Reconstruct these fossil skeleton pictures Pakicetus Skeleton or S. crassirostris Use Skeletal Resource Manual as a reference.

Interpreting an Ancient Puzzle Reconstruct earth's geological past.

Succession of Life cut, glue, and paste fossils from different geologic periods and then answer questions.

Fossil Kit I Takes students on an interactive journey into the fascinating world of fossil exploration and identification. From Skulldugeryuse these fossils: Cave Bear (Tooth), Crinoid, Allosaurus (Claw), Trilobite, Ammonite, Saber-tooth Tiger (Tooth).

Fossil Finds In the Los Angeles Subway

Fossil Identification Workbook Information about different kinds of fossils.

Fossil Succession Animals and Plants and the Period

Fossils From California Geological Survey

Index Fossils Chart Keyed to the relative time scale are examples of index fossils, the forms of life which existed during limited periods of geologic time and thus are used as guides to the age of the rocks in which they are preserved.

Bones of a 10-Foot Mastodon Unearthed A team of paleontologists has stumbled on what might be the most complete mastodon skeleton ever found on the West Coast.

Bone Up on your Fossils An OLOGY site. View the fossils and identify the animal.

Fossil Formation

Welcome to Dry Creek Bed You are about to embark on an exciting scientific adventure based upon ongoing research of UC paleontologists studying about life in Montana 60-70 million years ago.

GEOLOGIC HISTORY

A Fossil Time Line Create a fossil range chart for ammonites and their relatives in the Class Cephalapoda, which includes modern species such as octopuses, squids, cuttlefish, and nautilus. You will then use the information in the chart to determine the age of particular rocks and to predict which rock might contain oil.

Forever and a Day U on register tape.

Paleo U

Paleontology Notes

Questions

Sequencing Time

  Time Line Directions and Pictures
Extra Credit:
Page 1 Time Lines Graphics   Page 2 Time Lines Graphics    Page 3 Time Lines Graphics
Page 4 Time Lines Graphics   Page 5 Time Lines Graphics    Page 6 Time Lines Graphics

What Came First Students sequence actual events in the evolution of life on Earth.

Who's On First: A Relative Dating Activity

Bermuda Today: Who Were Its Geological Ancestors To understand how the island of Bermuda came to be. Using clay the kids model the island's history. Formation of Bermuda 2 pages that show Bermuda 110 mya to today.

Geologic Time Line Book

Geologic Time Line Poster

Geologic Ages of Earth History

Geological Eras and Organisms Bar graph from shells to humans.

Geologic TimeLine

Origin of Life

Precambrian Time

Rockman's Geologic Time Chart The chart presented here is a representation of current consensus about geologic time. We hope it will be useful.

Albuquerque's Environmental Story Just like Wyoming in the above activity, Changing Times, Albuquerque, New Mexico, has an interesting geologic history. View this pictorial of Albuquerque Area Geology.

Ancient Life and Geologic History Earth Science s