Radiocarbon dating project part of Rates and Time:Teaching Activities
Mark Schmitz, Boise State University
This is an example of an activity used in a Quaternary Geochronology course, in which a small group of students (3-4) is tasked with transforming a set of activity measurements into radiocarbon ages and calibrated ...

Personal Timeline part of Rates and Time:Teaching Activities
Rebecca Teed, Wright State University-Main Campus
Students start this worksheet by listing the most important events in their own lives, plotting them on a timeline, and then doing the same with Earth history events. Usually, their personal timelines will resemble ...

Paleoecology of the Penn-Dixie Quarry part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Lisa Whitenack, Allegheny College
Students work in groups to collect fossils and sediments from the Hamilton Group (Devonian), process their samples, and determine the paleocology and diversity metrics for each formation in the Hamilton Group. ...

Deep time - what is your metaphor? part of Paleontology:Activities
Jeff Wilson, The University of Texas at Brownsville
Construct your own metaphor, appropriately scaled, for communicating deep time.

Paleoecology: An Evolutionary Arms Race part of Paleontology:Activities
Rowan Lockwood, College of William and Mary
In this activity, students divide into groups of 4-5, fine-tune a hypothesis relating to escalation, collect data to test this hypothesis using mollusks from local Yorktown deposits (Pliocene), analyze these data, ...

Field Exercise in Stratigraphy/Paleoecology part of Geoscience in the Field:Activities
David Sunderlin, Lafayette College
This field activity for GEOL 320 "Paleobiology" is designed to turn what could have been a "look-and-see" fossil collecting trip into one where genuinely interesting hypotheses/questions are ...

Field Museum Assignment part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Hilary Christensen, Bates College
The assignments consists of three essay questions, of which the students were required to complete two of their choice. During a trip to the Field Museum, Chicago, the students were required to use the museum ...

Fossil Systematic Description Project part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Samantha Hopkins, University of Oregon
Students describe an unknown vertebrate fossil (or fossils, if multiple specimens are necessary for identification). This exercise is the culmination of their lab studies in the morphology of the vertebrate ...

Synthetic soup ground trace fossils part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Clint Cowan, Carleton College
This is a lab exercise where students make synthetic trace fossils (using fishing lures) that was presented as a scientific study: BIOGENIC SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES PRODUCED BY WORMS IN SOUPY, SOFT MUDS: OBSERVATIONS ...

Activity for the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, New York part of Paleontology:Activities
Richard Kendrick, SUNY Cortland, Richard.Kendrick@cortland.edu
This is an in-depth assignment to explore and write about the history of life as represented at the Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, New York. Students will examine several ...