Curated OER
Guess Who Came to Dinner!
An exceptionally creative approach is taken to assessing your biologists' grasp of natural selection concepts. They are to imagine hosting Charles Darwin for dinner and having, to their surpise, a few other noted scientists crash the...
Curated OER
Ordering Geologic Events Using Cross-Sections
Pupils analyze cross-sections of geologic events. For this geology lesson, students identify the type of environment where the cross-section come from. They take a quiz at the end of the lesson.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Outcrop Investigation: What Can Our Rocks Tell Us About the Past?
By looking at an outcrop, students make observations and prediction about Earth's history in this activity. Students will also make hypothesis about the past environment based on the observations from the outcrop.
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Earth Science: The Rock Cycle: Uniformitarianism and Recycling
Instructional module focusing on the rock cycle. Discussion includes the concept of uniformitarianism and how earth materials change from one form to another. The site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the...
Other
Physical geography.net: Concept of Uniformitarianism
This fundamentals of physical geography site provides a good overview of this early theory on the development landforms and the scientists that were involved in its conception.
University of California
University of California Museum of Paleontology: Uniformitarianism
Read about the pioneers in Earth's geologic history and their discovery of how the process of uniformitarianism shaped the study of evolution.
Vision Learning
Uniformitarianism and Recycling
This site explains the historical development of James Hutton's principle of uniformitarianism. It contrasts nonscientific explanations with Hutton's ideas.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Geologic Time and Correlation
In this amazing interactive tutorial you will learn about what methods are used by geologists to learn about the history of the Earth. Investigate a geologic time scale and learn about how scientists have developed and organized a record...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Historical Geology
In this interactive tutorial you will explore how geologists use clues in rocks to determine the order in which rocks formed. Learn how principles of radioactivity are used to assign actual ages to rocks. Students will explore fossils...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Principle of Uniformitarianism
How to use information from the present to understand the past.[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Principle of Uniformitarianism
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to use information from the present to understand the past.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Principle of Uniformitarianism
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to use information from the present to understand the past.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Principle of Uniformitarianism
[Free Registration/Login Required] An assessment for students to show their knowledge of the Principle of Uniformitarianism.
Other
Strange Science: Charles Lyell
A brief description of Charles Lyell and his work "The Principles of Geology" which includes the concept of uniformitarianism. A description of his views on evolution and a comparison to Charles Darwin.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Principle of Uniformitarianism Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes the key points of the Principle of Uniformitarianism.