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Geologic Time Scale Unit - MS-ESS1-4 Relative Age of Rock Layers & Index Fossils

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6th - 8th
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51 Total Pages and 14 Activities
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Description

Are you looking for a fun, engaging, and inquiry-based Geologic Time Scale and Age of the Earth unit? This ten-day resource fully addresses index fossils, rock layers, the law of superposition, and eras for your lesson plans. Each activity includes an editable version in PowerPoint and Google Slides. It's everything you need to teach Science Standard MS-ESS1-4. It will save you time by filling your lesson plans with 14 exciting activities and letting you focus on your students!

Help your students discover how we determine Earth's time periods using geology. They will also perform a sample coring lab.

Complete Teacher Guide? ✅
Answer Keys? ✅

Editable Versions? ✅
Anchor Phenomena? ✅
Modeling? ✅
Informational Text? ✅

Hands-on Lab? ✅
Cloze Notes? ✅
Assessment? ✅

➡️ Prep is fast and easy! Read the easy-to-follow teacher directions, print the student pages, and gather easy-to-find materials. You're ready for a fun and rewarding class period!

Additional items needed for the lab activity: several different colors of modeling dough, sprinkles, straws, and a plastic container.

This unit fully addresses Science Standard MS-ESS1-4.


Here's What's Included In This Complete Unit
✅ 14 Student Activities (in pre-formatted PDF versions and editable versions in PowerPoint and Google Slides)
✅ 50+ Total Pages
✅ Teacher Guides For All Activities
✅ Answer Keys
✅ Informational Text and Questions
✅ Modeling

✅ Lab
✅ Assessment


Don't need 10 days of lessons? Easily omit unnecessary materials!


⭐️Why Your Students Will Love It⭐️

  • They get to discover the content rather than just being told about it!
  • They will build take on the role of drillers and collect a rock core sample!
  • They will feel accomplished when they find the answer to the phenomenon!

⭐️Why You Will Love It⭐️

  • You can read the Teacher Overview, follow the teacher guide, obtain any necessary materials, and enjoy the lesson!
  • You will see deep connections being made by students as they proceed through the unit.
  • You will have more time to focus on your class instead of preparing materials.

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MS-ESS2-3: Tectonic Plates and Fossils Unit

MS-ESS2-4: Water Cycle Unit

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Total Pages
51 Total Pages and 14 Activities
Answer Key
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Teaching Duration
2 Weeks
Last updated Sep 9th, 2022
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Standards

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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.

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