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Excavating Your Recycling Bin: Model of the Fossil Record
Category: For Educators, Lesson Plans, Media, and Collaborative Research, For Graduate Students
Resource Type: PDF
Date Posted: 12/13/2007

Scientists use layers of rock with embedded fossils to glean information about the past. These layers of rock are called strata. This simple activity simulates how scientists study the past (using a paper recycling bin and worksheet) to make the connection with students that fossil layers were deposited in a known order (deepest records are oldest), and that the collection of accurate data is critical. [Source: Columbia Education Center] Grade level: 6-12.

LINK (http://cosee.umaine.edu/cfuser/resources/ExcavatingRecyclingBin.pdf) >>
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