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- Unit Plan: Know exactly what to cover and in what order!
- Notes Presentations (2)*: These presentations cover fossils and geologic time. Each presentation comes in PPT and Google Slides, and each has a corresponding Cloze worksheet for students to complete as they take notes.
- Fossil Readings (2)*: Replaces a textbook! Students learn about what fossils are, types of fossils, and how they give us information about the past.
- Law of Superposition Reading*: Replaces a textbook! Students learn how rock strata, fossils, and the law of superposition can be used to learn about Earth’s history, living things of the past, and past environments. Includes a comprehensive follow-up worksheet.
- Fossils and Law of Superposition Worksheets (3)*: These rigorous worksheets provide extra practice and are great as homework.
- Geologic Time Guided Reading or Stations*: Learn about how scientists break up geologic time into eras and periods and discover the different forms of life as they evolved through Earth’s history. Each era has its own page of questions so the reading can be broken up easily or done in stations.
- Geologic Time Poster Project: Students create a TO SCALE 1-meter long geologic time poster of Earth’s History of Life! Then, using their project as a reference, they complete a worksheet with analysis questions.
- NO PREP Fossils Activity: Students learn about representative fossils from each era of Earth’s history and then place their pictures in the appropriate layer on a blank template of Earth’s layers.
- Fossils CER Worksheet*: Students analyze three diagrams to make claims from evidence.
- CER & Data Analysis Stations*: RIGOROUS! Spark some critical thinking with claims, evidence, and reasoning practice! Review and reinforce fossils and the law of superposition with 12 CER task cards.
- Law of Superposition Quiz: Includes two versions of a 10-question multiple-choice quiz.
- Unit Test: This cumulative test has 18 multiple-choice questions and two open-response questions.
- Grab-And-Go Sub Plan*: Stay on topic even during your absence with a content-based sub plan in your back pocket! Students read about Mary Leakey, one of the most famous female scientists, world-renowned fossil hunter, and the finder of some of the most important early human fossils.
*Skip the line at the copier! The starred resources provide BOTH print and digital Google-based options to assign.
Teacher Notes:
- Answer keys are always provided.
- Standards: NGSS MS-ESS1-4 and MS-LS4-1
- Please note that the resources in this fossils and geologic time unit are not editable.
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Related Standards:
- NGSS MS-LS4-1: 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.
- NGSS MS-ESS1-4: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth’s 4.6-billion-year-old history. Emphasis is on how analyses of rock formations and the fossils they contain are used to establish relative ages of major events in Earth’s history.
