Science Classroom Teacher Resources
The History of Life
- “ Whose on First? Relative Dating ” introduces relative dating.
- “ Determining Age of Rocks and Fossils ” explores radioactive dating techniques.
- Try this “ History of Life ” online matching game.
- “The Mystery of the Far-Flung Fossils” is a very good kit for investigating plate tectonics as the grounds for the similarity of fossils on the continents. The kit can be ordered here and from most science catalogues. I recommend that the continents be laminated before use.
- The “ Becoming Human ” website has a documentary along with several classroom activities. Tom Wanamaker of the NSTA Listserve contributed this worksheet ( doc ), “Becoming Human Questions,” to go with the website.
- Have students do this “The History of Life” ( doc ) crossword puzzle.
- Teacher’s Domain’s “ Deep Time ” lesson (You must register for free to access.) includes a Flash interactive segment, html reading, and “Live-Action Student Timeline” activity.
- Watch the “ Radiometric Dating ” video and answers the questions in this Teacher’ Domain lesson.
- Check out this PowerPoint presentation, “ Teacher’s Guide to: Fossils ,” that has been converted to a YouTube video.
- Try this”How can you simulate radioactive half-life?” lab ( doc ) .
- This “ Examining the Fossil Record ” lab uses pictures of imaginary fossils.
- Try the “Re-creation of Pasteur’s Experiment” ( doc ) .
- A PBS “Human Evolution” Shockwave activity: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/evolution/#
- Explore this PBS geologic timeline: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/change/deeptime/index.html
- “Life Has History” modules sponsored by the NSF: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/. . .
- “Fossils, Rocks, and Time” by USGS : h ttp://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/fossils/
- Geologic timeline from S mithsonian : http://paleobiology.si.edu/geotime/main/
- Glencoe Section Launcer video on spontaneous generation: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/biology/bio2000/. . .
- NOVA’s “A Brief History of Life” interactive timeline: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/brief-history-life.html
- How did life begin? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/how-did-life-begin.html
- Spontaneous Generation and the Origin of Life: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/spontaneous-generation.html
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Unit 27: History of life on Earth
About this unit, formation of earth and early life.
- Earth formation (Opens a modal)
- Beginnings of life (Opens a modal)
- Origins of life (Opens a modal)
- Hypotheses about the origins of life (Opens a modal)
- The RNA origin of life (Opens a modal)
- RNA world (Opens a modal)
The diversification of life
- Ozone layer and eukaryotes show up in the Proterozoic eon (Opens a modal)
- First living things on land clarification (Opens a modal)
- Biodiversity flourishes in Phanerozoic eon (Opens a modal)
- Human evolution overview (Opens a modal)
Radiometric dating
- Chronometric revolution (Opens a modal)
- Carbon 14 dating 1 (Opens a modal)
- Carbon 14 dating 2 (Opens a modal)
- Potassium-argon (K-Ar) dating (Opens a modal)
- K-Ar dating calculation (Opens a modal)
- Atomic number, atomic mass, and isotopes (Opens a modal)
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Explorations Through Time - Life Has a History
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1. How many different species of living things exist today? ___________________ 2. Which group of animals has the largest number of species? _______________________ 3. How many mammal species exist today? ______________
4. Number the organisms from 1 (most abundant) to 8 (least abundant) ____ Mammals ____ Molluscs___ Roundworms ____ Arthropods ____ Flatworms
5. What is biodiversity (click on the purple links for definitions): _______________________________
6. 470 Million Years Ago (click circle for a "closer look" at the period) What was the name of the period? ________________________ What was the dominant predator? ____________________________ What was the first arthropod? ________________________
7. 160 Million Years Ago What was the name of the period? _____________________________ What large marine reptile existed? _____________________________
8. How old is the earth? _______________________ 9. Fill in the blanks of the timeline
10. The best source of evidence for determining events in earth's history is ______________ 11. What is a paleontologist? __________________________
12. Identify three fossils from the image. Name them and point to them with an arrow
13. What features are found in therapods? _____________________________________ 14. What is a cladogram? ________________________________________ 15. What is divergence? _____________________________________
16. To which animal are the crane and eagle most closely related? _______________________ 17. What other data (besides physical features) do scientists use to find if organisms are related? List 3 things. _______________________________________ 18. What birds on the Galapagos islands were adapted to different regions? ________________ 19. The beaks of the birds vary with what? ___________________________________ 20. What would happen if the environment changed and only plants with larger, harder seeds survived.How do you think that might affect the population of Geospiza fortis finches? _____________________________________ 21. What is geographic isolation? _____________________________________________ 22. Identify the extinct creature. _________________________________________ 23. Name two animals that have gone extinct since humans have been present? ________________________
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True. Earth has formed 4.6 billion years ago. True. Geological events on Earth set up conditions that would play a major role in the evolution of life on Earth. True. By the end of the Mesozoic, the continents took on their modern shape. False. The first organisms appeared on land between 3.9 and 3.4 billion years ago.
2. 3 statements of fact or personal opinion about the video "How Life Began" 3. Scatter eight words/phrases around the image about the video "How Life Began" 4. Write two questions you have about the video "How Life Began" 5. Put a boarder around the edges relating to the video "How Life Began" 6. Use colored pencils and/or markers.
Choose 1 answer: Was the synthesis of simple organic molecules on early Earth a stepping stone toward the evolution of complex organic polymers? A Was the synthesis of simple organic molecules on early Earth a stepping stone toward the evolution of complex organic polymers?
53 Users Description This interactive module explores key events in the record of life on Earth, which stretches over three billion years. In this Click & Learn, students visit different times in Earth's history to learn what life was like at that time, based on scientific evidence.
o Earth formed ~4.6 billion years ago. o Molten for around 500 million years, then solid crust formed. Early atmosphere. had many greenhouse gases, poisonous gases. • Not much free oxygen, if any. Clues of life on Earth. are found in rocks. o Earliest clues about life on Earth date to. 3.5 billion years ago.
The " Becoming Human " website has a documentary along with several classroom activities. Tom Wanamaker of the NSTA Listserve contributed this worksheet ( doc ), "Becoming Human Questions," to go with the website. Have students do this "The History of Life" ( doc) crossword puzzle. Teacher's Domain's " Deep Time " lesson ...
The diversification of life. Life began on Earth at least 3.5 billion years ago. Since then, it's diversified in an amazing way! Learn about important events in the history of living organism on Earth, up to and including the appearance of humans.
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A website exploration where students answer questions bout the history of the earth, the animals that live on the earth and how they have changed through time, uses berkeley.edu module, level 2. Life Has a History
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[Figure 1] How do we learn about the past? We study the remains of things that existed many years ago. The Ruins of Pompeii have given archeologists, historians, and other scholars a tremendous amount of information about life two thousand years ago. This section discusses studying things that are many thousands of years older than these remains.
The total history of Earth comprises four eons. From most to least recent they are the Phanerozoic, Proterozoic, Archean, and Hadean. Their names refer to a second major theme of Earth's history: the evolution of life. Phanerozoic means "visible life." The Phanerozoic Eon spans the most recent 545 million years of Earth's history.
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