Curated OER
Earth's Dramatic History
Middle schoolers create a timeline. In this Earth's History lesson, students research the history of life on Earth and use the information collected to create a timeline. Middle schoolers also answers the provided discussion questions.
Curated OER
Geological Time Line Comparison-Earth and Missouri
In this geological time line worksheet, students compare the time lines they created of the earth's history to the history of Missouri. They answer questions about the eras, the scale of the time lines and the major events that occurred...
Curated OER
Understanding Geologic Time
Students view Understanding Geologic Time on the Internet or by CD-Rom to explore the length of time that the Earth has existed.
Curated OER
Explorations Through Time
In this earth history worksheet, high schoolers visit a website and complete 15 fill in the blank and 8 short answer questions based on what they read. Topics include biodiversity, animal kingdoms, evolution, fossils, and extinction.
Curated OER
A Scale of the Earth
Students create a scale model of the different eras, periods, and epochs of Earth's 4.6 billion year history. In addition to different time periods, other major events will also be added to the model from fabricated radioactive decay...
University of California
Ucmp: Getting Into the Fossil Record
A learning module where students tour the fossil record to learn what fossils are, how organisms become fossils, the factors that promote fossilization, how paleontologists find fossils, and why some organisms cannot be fossilized....
Other
University of California Museum of Paleontology: Paleontology Portal
Portal of the University of California Museum of Paleontology provides access to the museum's extensive research resources and fossil holdings. Includes career preparation advice for future paleontologists and a series of links to...
Other
The Paleontology Portal: Fossil Gallery
An image gallery of fossils through time. Students choose a time period to see what life was like by studying the fossils.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Personal Timeline
Use this activity to help students understand the history of Earth by creating their own timeline of their life. By creating their timeline, students can see the resemblance and make connections between Earth's history and their own....
BBC
Bbc Nature: Prehistoric Life
Explore life on ancient Earth with this site! Students can walk with dinosaurs to see what Earth looked like or investigate Earth's history. The site includes articles, pictures, timelines, and lots more.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Fossil Inferences
Arrange fossil pictures in sequence from oldest to youngest.
University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky: Important Dates and Cool Creatures in Earth History
A bullet list of important events in Earth's history broken down by eons, eras, periods, and epochs.
University of California
Ucmp: Adventures at Dry Creek
For this lesson, students embark on an adventure to find out what life was like in Montana 60-70 million years ago. Students "join" a research lab to collect fossils from Montana and analyze them to find direct and indirect evidence of...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Identifying Fossils: Exploring the Mississippi River Bluffs
Students investigate fossils found in the Decorah Shale found in the Mississippi River bluffs. They will determine the name and description of the most common fossils. They will also determine how old the fossils are and what the...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Indentification of Earth Materials
Students identify the fossils and materials, and form a hypothesis as to how they were formed and what it was before preservation.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Geo Logic: Dinosaur Trackways
Using GEOLogic questions and puzzles, young scholars associate different dinosaur trackways with their locations and the rock formations containing the trackways based on clues given from various points of view.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Geo Logic: The Big Five Mass Extinctions
Using GEOLogic puzzles, learners are asked to match the five largest mass extinction events with their relative dates, approximate duration, and severity based on clues given from various perspectives.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Geo Logic: Lagerstatten and Unique Fossils
With GEOLogic questions, students are asked to match several unique fossils with the sites and locations where they were found, as well as their geologic age.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Geo Logic: State Fossils
With the use of GEOLogic questions, young scholars are asked to identify states with their respective state fossils, and determine the year in which it was declared, based on clues given from various points of view.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Geo Logic: The Three Stooges and Their Pet Dinosaurs
With GEOLogic puzzles, students are asked to match each of the Three Stooges with their favorite group and species of dinosaur based on clues given from different perspectives.
Estrella Mountain Community College
Online Biology Book: Paleobiology: The Late Paleozoic
College-level biology book covers the Late Paleozoic geologic time period in Earth's history. See photographs of fossil evidence from that era in addition to diagrams to help with understanding.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Early Life
The aim of this article relates the nature of science to our current understanding of the origin of life and describe the formation of the atoms which build the Earth and its life.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Fossil Evidence of Change: Self Check Quiz
Try these five multiple-choice questions about fossil evidence of change. After submitting answers, students can review the material.
Other
Paleogeography and Geologic Evolution of North America
A collection of maps depicting the paleogeography of 550 million years of geologic history.