地质时间线活动-我们的故事（ geologic timeline activity- our story）.docVIP

Integrated Art, Science, and Materials Geologic Timeline with Fossils Subject: Life Science-Earth/Life History Grade Level: 7th Grade Rationale: In this 3-part classroom community activity, students will be constructing a Geologic Timeline to show the Earth’s biologic and geologic history to gain perspective on the succession and age of Earth’s important events. Approximately 30 students, divided into groups covering 11 time periods, will construct a 4.6-billion year timeline. Each group will research one geologic period’s biologic and geologic events and artistically render them on the class timeline. This will allow them to experiment with different materials in 2-D and 3-D. In addition, students will create a fossil of an organism that lived during that time to display in the classroom. They will also make mock fossils out of a material of their choice that they feel will last long enough to become a true fossil. This final step will show them how different materials resist the ravages of time better than others, which explains why there are large gaps in the fossil record. Objectives: Given time to research a geologic period in Earth’s history, students will compile a list of biologic and geologic events that occurred or were present during that time period. Given organisms that lived during their assigned time period, students will make a fossil out of Model Magic( resembling one of the organisms. Given time in class to draw, students will make a large silhouette of one of the most prominent organism from their geologic period. They will also draw other important organisms in black ink and noteworthy geologic events in the background of their time period. Given the completion of the timeline, students will know when major changes in climate, biota, and geology occurred. Given the testing of their fossils, students will know what materials make better fossils by withstanding biotic and abiotic factors. Given the completion of the timeline, students