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2.Fossils

2.Fossils. Essential Question: How do fossils provide a record of Earth’s geologic history? Learning Target: I can identify the various types of fossils and what we can learn from studying them. Fossils are a record of Earth’s geologic history.

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2.Fossils

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  1. 2.Fossils • Essential Question: How do fossils provide a record of Earth’s geologic history? • Learning Target: I can identify the various types of fossils and what we can learn from studying them. Fossils are a record of Earth’s geologic history. • Learning Task: I will define fossils. I will explain how fossils can help us to learn about Earth’s history.

  2. Welcome! Warm Up Tuesday 4/1/14 1. What is an Ice Core? 2. What can they tell us about Earth’s Past? Enter your response at www.goo.gl/vta7d1

  3. 4th Quarter Table of Contents 1 Title Assignment # Ice Cores 2 Ice Cores Webquest 3 Fossil Notes 4

  4. Ice Cores2 • Draw an Ice Core like this one:

  5. How do ice layers show history of Earth’s climate change? • Concentrations of “greenhouse gases”, methane and carbon dioxide in the ice show temperature changes

  6. Study the pictures below. What do they make you think about? Fossils 4 Write 2-3 sentences about these pictures on page 4

  7. Meet “Ida” (many fossils are given names by the scientists who find them) • 47 million-year-old fossil • Relative of primates (has some similar features to modern primates like lemurs) • Has opposable thumbs and grasping hands • http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090519-missing-link-found.html

  8. What is a fossil? Copy the definitions in red • A fossil is evidence of past life preserved in rock. • There are many different types of fossils and fossils of many different organisms. • The Fossil record is the complete collectionof fossils that shows how species and ecosystems change over time.

  9. Getting into the Fossil Record.. http://goo.gl/lJ9va • Today you’ll learn about fossils and the conditions in which fossils are formed. • Complete the “Getting into the Fossil Record” Webquest, then turn in the completed assignment to your teacher. This is a lowercase L

  10. Table Talk Turn to your table partner, read the Performance of Understanding and explain the the “I will” statements.

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