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Students will answer Fossil and Earth history questions to navigate a GPS route, as a means of incorporating technology into instructional strategies.
Lesson Objective
1. Student will be able to navigate a course using a GPS (Global Positioning System), following clues about fossils, their formation, identification, and the earth’s history.
2. Student will be able to describe the methods used to estimate geologic time and the age of the Earth (e.g., techniques used to date rocks and rock layers, presence of fossils)
3. Student will be able to use rock and fossil evidence to make inferences about the age, history, and changing life forms and environment of the Earth (i.e., changes in successive layers of sedimentary rock and the fossils contained within them, similarities between fossils in different geographic locations, similarities between fossils and organisms present today, fossils of organisms indicating changes in climate, fossils of extinct organisms).
4. Student will be able to explain the types of fossils and the processes by which they are formed (i.e., replacement, mold and cast, preservation, trace) (ES.2.D.6.a.)
5. Student will be able to use fossil evidence to make inferences about changes on Earth and in its environment (i.e.,superposition of rock layers, similarities between fossils in different geographical locations, fossils of seashells indicate the area was once underwater) (ES.2.D.6.b.)
Targeted Grade Level – 4th Grade, 8th Grade
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