Bay Area Earth Science Institute
The Fossil Record
March 14, 2009

Presentations by Jonathan Hendricks and Michael Parrish

Activities

1. The Great Fossil Find - from the Evolution and the Nature of Science Institute (ENSI)

2. Becoming Whales - from ENSI

3. Beak Adaptations Investigation

Windows to the Universe Lesson
 Word document
  Summary Table

 

4. Cladistics Lab

        Sun pictures

5. Dinosaurs

Dinosaur Feeding at Cretaceous Park - from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Dinosaur Extinction Theories Lesson - from My Science Box

         What Killed the Dinosaurs? - An Online Lesson from PBS

Related Resources

• California State Fossil -  from the California Geological Survey
  

• Evolution and the Fossil Record - from the American Geological Institute (pdf)

• Whale Evolution Kiosk
  
  

• Evolution and the Nature of Science Institute (ENSI)
  
  

• UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology  

         Learning from the Fossil Record

         The Paleontology Portal

         Understanding Evolution

         Understanding Science
  
  

• PBS

 Evolution - links to multimedia, pages for teachers and student

 Evolution for Teachers

• "Why Earth Science?" Video on YouTube  (from the American Geological Institute)