Experience Deep Time & Earliest Fossils | |
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Download Lesson Plan High School Activity: Students gradually build a realistic sense of deep, geological time from familiar linear analogs, e.g. calendars and football fields. Students also learn to associate the earliest fossils of specific groups of vertebrates with the geologic time of their emergence, on the now-familiar scale of relative distances from their school. From this, students discover the pattern of gradual vertebrate emergence and how well it consistently fits vertebrate phylogeny. More... |
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Published by Larry Flammer
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High School
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Download Lesson Plan High School Tests: This quiz assesses students knowledge of how populations evolve, gene pools, types of isolation, speciation, species diversity, genetic drift, and macroevolution. More... |
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Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
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High School
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Evolution of Populations Quiz
The Science of Ape Intelligence | |
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Download Lesson Plan Download Video High School Multimedia: Student will watch the video about the science of ape intelligence and, after watching, discuss answers to questions related to similarities and differences between intelligence in apes and in humans. Students are first organized into teams to track experiments and field observations. Students then watch the video (online or by DVD) and take notes on their topic. Student next will meet in their groups and fill in the two worksheets. Lastly, student will have a class discussion about the topics discussed. More... |
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Published by Margy Kuntz, NGHT, Inc. and WGBH Educational Foundation
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High School
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Deep Time: Finding the Ages of Rocks & Fossils | |
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Download Lesson Plan High School Worksheet: Students are taken through a combination of some background information and interactive experiences using a narrative that includes concepts of isotopes, radioactive decay, half-life, mineral formation, age analysis, Fair Test questions, and isochrons. More... |
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Published by Larry Flammer
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High School
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Creating Coacervates | |
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Download Lesson Plan High School Experiment: Students mix a carbohydrate solution with a protein solution, adjust the pH, and view coacervates: amoeba-like objects, which change shape, flow, merge, divide, form "vacuoles", release "vacuole contents", and show other life-like properties. Students understand that under suitable conditions, life-like structures can form naturally from relatively simple materials. More... |
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Published by Larry Flammer
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High School
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