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Date |
Objective/ Procedure |
Handouts/ Labs |
Homework |
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1/12 |
Index Fossils:
Introduction
TSWBAT
1.View streaming video segments
from
Discovery Education about the different organisms that dominated each
era in Earth History and the changes that took place in Earth's environment
and then take notes on new
information learned in science journal
2. Read
Fossils, Rocks, and Time p.76-80 Earth History Resources book and answer
Think
Questions in Science Journal to better understand how fossils help
determine the age and information about a period in Earth's History
NJCCCS
5.1 &
5.8 |
32.
Fossil Identification
|
Science Current Event
(Due Friday)
|
|
1/13 |
Index Fossils:
Identification-1
TSWBAT
1.Identify Index fossils as
fossils that are found all over the world and were only found for a
relatively short period of time in Earth History
2.Take notes:
Earth
History Vocabulary #28 about Index Fossils that help scientists figure
out the age and history off the Earth
3.
Identify the scientific
name and age of index fossils
NJCCCS
5.1 &
5.8 |
15. Index Fossil Correlations/
Index Fossil Correlations Questions
|
Science Current Event
(Due Friday) |
|
1/14 |
Index Fossils:
Identification-2
TSWBAT
1.Identify Index fossils as
fossils that are found all over the world and were only found for a
relatively short period of time in Earth History
2.
Identify the scientific
name and age of index fossils
3.
Go over p.
28.
Relative
Ages of Rocks /
Evolution and Geologic Time to
understand how the ages of rocks are determined and how organisms changed over
time& p. 29
Early
Earth History/Middle and Recent Earth History
to review the events that happened in the Palezoic- Cenozoic Eras
&p. 30 Fossils/Extinction
of Dinosaurs to understand the theory of how the dinosaurs
became extinct
NJCCCS
5.1 &
5.8 |
|
Science Current Event
(Due Friday)
|
|
1/15 |
Index Fossils: Correlation TSWBAT
1.Identify Index fossils as
fossils that are found all over the world and were only found for a
relatively short period of time in Earth History
3.
Line up rock layers according to like Index Fossils and
correlate the ages of the rock layers and
identify their time period
3. Answer the correlation questions of help
understand the sequence of the rock layers and the environments that the
different organisms lived in
NJCCCS
5.1 &
5.8 |
33.
Theory
of Plate Tectonics/Before
Pangaea, Rodina
|
Science Current Event
(Due Friday)
Read Text p. 294-315 p.
33.
Theory
of Plate Tectonics/Before
Pangaea, Rodina
|
|
1/16 |
Index Fossil
Reading TSWBAT
1. Reading: A Fossil Primer
p.83-88 Earth History Resources book to better understand what an Index
Fossil is and how they are used
2. Complete p. 34.Thinking About Index Fossils to better understand the work of the early
paleontologists
3.Reading: Floating on
Prehistoric Sea p.81-82 Earth History Resources book to better understand
how fossils form in rocks and how the layers and the fossils help
scientists to learn about the environments and how the Earth has changed. NJCCCS
5.1 &
5.8 |
34.Thinking About Index Fossils
|
Science Current Event
Due
Read Text p. 294-315 p.
33.
Theory
of Plate Tectonics/Before
Pangaea, Rodina
|
