This is HL 6. Follow all written directions.
Students will be able to:
use information from textbooks, hands-on activities, virtual labs and classroom discussions to
-explain how fossils are used to show evidence of changes in plants and animals over long periods of time.
-describe several processes of fossil formation and a possible scenario for each type of preservation.
-summarize the conditions needed for fossils to form.
Some classes worked on a law of superposition activity where teams were given cards with nonsense words and asked to arrange them in order from oldest to youngest, based on the letters on the cards. Students then answered questions about the cards.
Students also did a similar activity, but using cards with pictures of fossils. Students arranged the rock layers containing the fossils based on the similarities, thus demonstrating their knowledge of relative age.
Still other students did an online activity at Discovery Learning where they read descriptions of fossils and placed them in rock layers according to their ages.
Home learning 6 can be found at the top of this blog.