High School Science

Fossils

Earth Science

Quarter 2

McGraw Hill Module 17

RESOURCES

PACING: 4 DAYS

● Module Launch: 45 min ● Lesson 1: 90 min ● Lesson 2: 90 min ● Lesson 3: 45 min ● Lesson 4: 90 min ● Module Wrap-Up: 45 min

Module 17: Fossils ● Phenomena: How has information about Earth’s history been preserved for so long? ● Lesson 1: The Rock Record

● Lesson 2: Relative-Age Dating ● Lesson 3: Absolute-Age Dating ● Lesson 4: Fossil Remains

STANDARD

LEARNING PROGRESSIONS

● Scientists organize geologic time. ● Scientists divide time

ESS 2.1 Analyze and interpret data to construct an explanation for the changes in Earth’s formation and 4.6 billion year history. Examples of data could include the absolute ages of ancient Earth materials, the size and composition of solar system objects like meteorites, or the impact cratering record of planetary surfaces.

largely on fossils of plants and animals.

● Geologic time scale changes as scientists

learn more about Earth. ● Processes occurring today have been occurring since Earth formed. ● Unconformity represents a gap of time in the rock record. ● Index fossils help scientists correlate rock layers in the geologic record. ● Absolute-age dating help identify numeric dates of geologic events. ● Fossils provide evidence that species have evolved.

CONCEPTS (Nouns)

SKILLS (Verbs)

● Earth’s Formation

● Analyze and Interpret