Unit 12 - Earth History
***This is a tentative plan, exact dates/events may change due to a variety of factors.
April 19 –
- New Unit Information
- Relative Dating – terms & practice
- Lab - Relative Dating
April 22 –
- Practice Relative Dating
- Relative dating block & cube
April 23 –
- Absolute Dating terms
- Lab – Absolute Dating (varve lab)
April 24 –
- Lab – Absolute dating varve lab
April 25 –
- Absolute Dating terms
- Lab – Radioactive Decay lab
April 26 –
- Lab – finish radioactive decay lab
April 29 –
- The Geologic Time Scale
- Lab – Modeling Geologic Time
April 30 –
- Science MCA
May 1 –
- Science MCA
May 2 –
- Work time – Geologic Time Period
May 3 –
- Work time – Geologic Time Period
May 6 –
- Paleozoic Era
- Extinction – The Permian
- How the Earth was Made - Paleozoic
May 7 –
- Go over Module 17 book Assignment
- The Mesozoic Era
- Video – How the Earth was Made (Mesozoic Era)
- Lab – Fossils Through Time
May 8 –
- Lab – Fossils Through Time
- Video – The Day the Mesozoic Died
May 9 –
- Lab – Fossils Through Time
May 10 –
- Lab – Fossils Through Time
- How the Earth was Made – (Cenozoic Era)
May 13 –
- Lab – Fossils Through Time
May 14 –
- The Cenozoic Era
- Video – Ice Ages
May 15 –
- Relative & Absolute Dating practice
May 16 –
- Extinction Events
May 17 –
- Graphing extinction rates (past/present)
May 20 –
- Cenozoic life
- Geologic Time Timeline Activity
May 21 –
- Fossils Test (Part I)
May 22 –
- Fossils Test (Part II)
****Test may be a few days earlier…..May 16 & 17??
***Depending on how long some of the labs last, the test days may be a few days earlier or later.