Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Geologic Time Line
A time line of Earth's geologic periods from 600 million years ago.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Mud Fossils
In this lesson young scholars will look at the major divisions of geologic time and learn about the fossils and forms of life which existed during those periods, helping them to understand how the age of rocks are preserved.
BBC
Bbc Nature: Prehistoric Life: Irish Elk
Examine the enthralling world of the Irish elk by uncovering details about its behaviors, habitats, geological time periods, and classification through photos, a video, descriptions, and external links.
BBC
Bbc Nature: Prehistoric Life: Tyrannosaurus Rex
Explore the exciting world of the killer dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus Rex, by learning about its behaviors, geological time periods, and classification through descriptions, videos, photos, news, and external links.
BBC
Bbc Nature: Prehistoric Life: Woolly Mammoth
Explore the exciting world of the woolly mammoth by discovering facts about its behaviors, habitats, geological time periods, and classification through news, photos, videos, descriptions, and external links.
BBC
Bbc Nature: Wildlife: Stingrays
Discover the fascinating world of the stingray by learning about its distribution, behaviors, habitats, geological time periods, and classification through videos, news, photos, descriptions, and external links.
Other
Georgia Perimeter College: The Permian Period
This resource provides basic information of the changes that took place during the Permian period as well as the animals that populated the Earth during this time.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Mesozoic Era
Learn the basic information about the Mesozoic Era in Earth's geologic history.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Paleozoic Era
A brief overview illustrating the Paleozoic era in Earth's geologic history.
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: Geology of Mexico and Central America, 1910
A map from 1910 of Mexico and Central America, showing the distribution of rocks and indicating the geologic time period they come from.
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.
Ohio History Central
Ohio History Central: Time Line of Ohio History
A comprehensive timeline of events in the prehistory and history of Ohio. Hyperlinks to the multitude of specific articles about Ohio's history.
Other
Georgia Perimeter College: The Precambrian Era
This resource provides detailed information on each of the periods within the Precambrian Era. It discusses what earth was like, what the first multiple cell organisms were like and when they appeared.
Other
Milwaukee Public Museum: The Virtual Silurian Reef
A virtual tour of a Silurian reef. Includes information on geologic principles, the geologic time scale, and the Silurian period. Explores Silurian reefs and reef organisms.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Sorting Out Sedimentation
Sedimentary rock forms in layers that are deposited one after the other over long periods of time. Oftentimes, sedimentary rock contains fossils and other debris that are deposited within the layers. Use this experiment to investigate...
University of California
Ucmp: The Museum of Paleontology
This site contains on-line exhibits including animals, plants, time periods, phylogeny, geology, and evolution. Also, a search is provided at the bottom of the site for more specific information.
EL Education
El Education: Get a Clue
This nonfiction children's book was created by 1st grade students at the Genesee Valley Community Charter School in Rochester, New York, as part of a learning expedition on fossils and local geological history. The expedition consisted...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Science of Puddles
Learners will look at their schoolyard and determine where a puddle will form after a heavy rain. They will map the school yard and draw chalk lines to demonstrate their predictions. After a rain children will check their predictions and...