"Fossil Dig" using cereal bar.Biological Change
4th Grade Level Skills
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Match fossil evidence with organisms that are alive today. |
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Identify animal and plant populations as thriving, threatened, endangered, or extinct. |
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Infer possible causes of extinction. |
5th Grade Level Skills
The student will understand that living things have characteristics that enable them to survive in their environment.
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Compare the causes that led to the extinction of various organisms. |
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Analyze how fossils provide information about the past. |
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Compare the relative age of fossils in rock layers. |
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Fossils
Brain Pop Fossils
Footprint Story Telling http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/Heindel3.html
Video
Reading Rainbow - Digging Up Dinosaur
I Dig Fossils (In MCE Library)
"Fossil Dig" using cereal bar.
— Each student places a piece of a cereal bar on a paper plate and carefully picks it apart using a toothpick. Parts are grouped by type on their plate, e.g. all raisins together. The Rice Krispies are also placed in a large pile.
— After digging apart bar, students then count how many of each type of material is on their plate.
— Students construct a class bar graph using "sticky" notes on a laminated poster board grid.
— Students analyze the graph to see if all the quadrants were the same or different.
— The class discusses how this procedure is used by scientists to systematically study a plot of soil..
Match Fossil Activity http://www.rom.on.ca/quiz/fossil/fosgame.html
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Mold Fossils - The Complete Book of Science page 15 (Students make imprints with clay & plaster of Paris)
Fossils - The Complete Book of Science page 16
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What do the terms mean - thriving, threatened, endangered, or extinct?
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/animals/biological_change/terms.htm
The Complete Book of Science page 42 and 44
Look at the list of endangered animals and discuss.
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Extinct and Endangered Animals
Finding Bean Activity http://www.teachervision.fen.com/page/6239.html
Lesson Plan http://eprentice.sdsu.edu/J03CR/hparrish/animals/danger.html
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Causes of Extinction
Read The Last Dinosaur by Jim Murphy
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Rock Layers
Bhutan, the Last
Shangri-La: Sandwich Squash: How the Himalayas Were Formed
http://www.pbs.org/edens/bhutan/Bhu_teach_5.htm
Uses a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to explain rock layers.
Cupcake Mining - Cooking prep time for teacher, but shows nice model of cross section. http://minerals.state.nv.us/forms/educ/Cupcake.pdf
Windows to the Universe Activity
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/teacher_resources/teach_strata.html
Uses Play Dough to illustrate rock layers
Ordering Layers of the Earth (Nonsense Cards) http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/BarBar.html OR http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=16319
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