Law of Superposition Geologic Time Reading and Activity Unit BUNDLE MS-ESS1-4
Flying Colors Science
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Grade Levels
7th - 10th
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NGSSMS-ESS1-4
NGSSMS-LS4-1
Formats Included
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Pages
26 pages
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SAVE 30% OFF list prices! Students will learn how scientists gain evidence from rock strata to understand the geologic time scale and organize Earth's 4.6 billion-year history! Designed specifically to address NGSS MS-ESS1-4.
Resources Included in the Bundle:
- Law of Superposition Reading & Questions
- Law of Superposition Worksheet
- Geologic Time Reading Guided Reading
- Geologic Time Scale TO SCALE Poster Project (Kid favorite!)
- 18-Question Test
Individual Product Descriptions:
- Law of Superposition Reading: Students learn how rock strata, fossils, and the law of superposition can be used to learn about Earth's history, living things of the past, and past environments. Includes text-dependent questions.
- Law of Superposition Worksheet: Reviews the law of superposition and fossils in rock strata.
- Geologic Time Guided Reading: Learn about how scientists break up geologic time into eras and periods and discover the different forms of life as they evolved through Earth's history. Each era has its own page of questions so the reading can be broken up easily or done in stations.
- Geologic Time Poster Project: Students create a TO SCALE 1-meter long geologic time poster of Earth's History of Life! Then, using their project as a reference, they complete a worksheet with analysis questions.
- Test: 18 questions cover an overview of the law of superposition and geologic time.
Key Topics Covered:
- The Law of Superposition: fossils in rock strata provide evidence of when certain organisms lived.
- The basics of geologic time: geologic time is divided into specific eras and eras begin and end when major changes to Earth's life forms and environmental changes occur.
- The types of life on Earth have changed over time.
- Environments on Earth have changed over time.
Teacher Notes:
- GO PAPERLESS! Every included resource includes a Google Slides option to assign (except for the poster project).
- Answer keys are always provided.
- Standards: NGSS MS-ESS1-4 and MS-LS4-1
- Please note that these resources are not editable.
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Total Pages
26 pages
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NGSSMS-ESS1-4
Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth’s 4.6-billion-year-old history. Emphasis is on how analyses of rock formations and the fossils they contain are used to establish relative ages of major events in Earth’s history. Examples of Earth’s major events could range from being very recent (such as the last Ice Age or the earliest fossils of homo sapiens) to very old (such as the formation of Earth or the earliest evidence of life). Examples can include the formation of mountain chains and ocean basins, the evolution or extinction of particular living organisms, or significant volcanic eruptions. Assessment does not include recalling the names of specific periods or epochs and events within them.
NGSSMS-LS4-1
Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past. Emphasis is on finding patterns of changes in the level of complexity of anatomical structures in organisms and the chronological order of fossil appearance in the rock layers. Assessment does not include the names of individual species or geological eras in the fossil record.
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