BAESI: November  15., 2008

Earth and Life Through Time

I. Activities

What's Up? A Relative Age Dating Activity  http://www.geosociety.org/educate/LessonPlans/Relative_Age.pdf
By Christine McLelland

 Continental Jigsaw Puzzle

http://www.ontariogeoscience.net/lessonplans/jigsawpuzzle.htm
Word document

Patterns in Time lesson: http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/pat.in.time.html
personal sense of geological  time; staggered emergence of vertebrate groups

Date a Rock lesson: http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/date.les.html  
simulation of radiometric samples in rocks

Who’s on First?: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/BarBar.html (full lesson)
 Procedures only; http://www.ccsd.edu/South/Science/esci/mrpatrick/lessons/relativedating.htm

Fossil kits from DJ Minerals

II.  Jon's Presentations

http://www.sjsugeology.org/baesi/fossils/presentations/

Plate tectonics animations from Christopher Scotese    http://www.scotese.com/

III. Useful Web Sites for Geological Time and Age Dating

An excellent source for the latest geological time scale charts is:

The International Commission on Stratigraphy: http://www.stratigraphy.org/

Also, (same site): Time Scale Chart and Timescale comparison charts (to scale - 1937-2004) - These are useful to show changes in the Time Scale Charts over the past 50 years.

ENSI Lessons on Geological Age Dating and Geological Time Lines

Patterns in Time lesson: http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/pat.in.time.html

personal sense of geological  time; staggered emergence of vertebrate groups

Date a Rock lesson: http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/date.les.html  
simulation of radiometric samples in rocks

Time Machine  http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/time.mac.html
geological Time Scales - engaging activity

Varve Dating: http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/varves.html   
counting real varves in sample block, and extrapolating to entire Green River formation (~3 my thick)

Virtual Age Dating Tutorial: http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/virt.age.html
Carbon-14 and Isochron dating.

Answers to Challenges to Geological Ages: http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/geo.age.crit.html

Analyzing Hominid Fossil Footprints

Footsteps in  Time: http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/footstep.html
analyzing the Laetoli footprints of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis)

Laetoli Trackway Puzzle: http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/lessons/track.puz.html

IV. From the UCMP: Two good lessons for novice “time travelers”:

Who’s on First?: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/BarBar.html

Sequencing Time: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/ScotchmoorTime.html

What Came First? http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/ScotchmoorFirst.html

Understanding Geologic Time: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/geotime/