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1. Demo: Look at some fossils.

2. Lesson: The Earth is Old​

   1. "Four ways to understand the Earth's age," Joshua M. Sneideman, TedX, Youtube, 3:44

   2. "How We Know The Earth Is Ancient," PBS SpaceTime, 17 min

3. Activity: Geologic Time

   1.  Explorations Through Time, UC Berkely There are eight modules. The first one is titled, "Life Has a History." Select Level 2 and work through the module.

   2. "Deep Time," PBS web activity.

4. Activity:

   1. Watch and participate actively with the following video lecture: "Geology: Relative Dating of Rocks," Earth Rocks! YouTube channel, Katryn Wiese, City College of San Francisco, 16:07 min.

      1. At about 11:30 minutes in is Review Time #1 on Stratigraphy. As the video suggests, pause, do your best to answer the question, then check your answers. The answers are in the video.

      2. At about 15:50 minutes in is Review Time #2 on Fossils. As the video suggests, pause, do your best to answer the questions, then check your answers. The answers are in the video.

   2. Relative Dating

      1. Your mission here is to learn about relative dating through a lab activity. I do not yet have a lab activity that I prefer. Below are several possibilities. Rate the activity 1 - 5 stars and explain your answer.​

      2. Relative Dating Activity #1, Solutions.

      3. Relative Dating Activity #2, Solutions.

      4. Relative Dating Activity #3, No Solutions Yet

      5. Activity #4: Find your own activity on the internet.

      6. Activity #5: Create your own activity.

   3. Absolute Dating

      1. ​Your mission here is to learn about absolute dating through a lab activity. I do not yet have a lab activity that I prefer. Rate the activity 1 - 5 stars and explain your answer.

      2. Absolute Dating Activity #1, Solutions are included.

      3. Absolute Dating Activity #2, Solutions?

      4. Activity #3: Find your own activity on the internet.

      5. Activity #4: Create your own activity.

5. Lab: Geologic Time

   1. Geologic Time Line from the Geologic Society of America.

   2. Simplified Geologic Time Line

   3. More Simplified Geologic Time Line

   4. A video of me discussing these images

   5. Geologic Timeline on the Sidewalk, Video

6. ​Assessment: Performance

7. Equity​​.  Geologic Catastrophes of the last 20,000 Years AKA Seeing with Two Eyes

8. Connection to Core Science​

9. Any Other Discussion

10. Field Project: Geologic History of Oregon

    1. Landscape Regions and Landforms of the Pacific Northwest

    2. Ice Age Floods, Lake Missoula, Bonneville Flood and the Columbia River Basalts

    3. Geology of Portland Area

 

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