Lesson summary for:
Adventures at Dry Creek
Overview:
In this interactive web-based module students conduct a simulated field study at a fossil dig in Montana.Author/Source:
UC Museum of Paleontology Grade level:
6-8 Time:
Three to four class periods. Concepts: - Fossils provide evidence of past life.
- A hallmark of science is exposing ideas to testing.
- Scientists test their ideas using multiple lines of evidence.
- Scientific knowledge is open to question and revision as we come up with new ideas and discover new evidence.
- Scientists use multiple lines of evidence to study life over time.
- Scientists use fossils to learn about past life.
- Scientists can test ideas about events and processes long past, very distant, and not directly observable.
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