Description
Students will love learning how scientists find the age of rocks, fossils, and events using relative dating and absolute dating methods with this interactive lesson! Interactive lessons are designed to engage students while reducing their cognitive load. Students will learn all about relative dating methods and absolute dating methods in chunks of information with embedded activities to help them to process!
A print and digital version is included!
Age of Rocks and Fossils Interactive Lesson Covers:
- approximate age of the Earth according to scientists
- geologist definition
- why geologists study the age of rocks, fossils, and events
- two types of geologic dating: relative dating and absolute dating
- principle of superposition, principle of original horizontality, principle of cross-cutting relationships, principle of inclusions
- index fossils
- radioactive dating (radiometric dating) and dendrochronology
- half-life
- limitations of radioactive dating
- brief mention of other forms of absolute dating: paleomagnetism, amino acid dating, cosmogenic nuclide dating, and HRMS
- and more!
Age of Rocks and Fossils Interactive Activities include:
- KWL
- drag-and-drop
- type in the text box
- Venn diagram
- exploring outside resources
- and more!
There are 42 slides in all and an answer key is included!
When you purchase this product, you will be given access to a link that will allow you to open the file that is compatible with Google Slides™. You will then be able to share this with your students. If you’d like, there is a PPT version as well!
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