Earliest Record of Life, Australia part of Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
The Dresser Formation is part of the mostly volcanic Warrawoona Group in the North Pole Dome area of the East Pilbara located in the State of Western Australia. At 3.49 billion years old, this formation contains ...

The Panama Passageway: Using the PBDB to constrain the timing and extent of the The Great American Biotic Interchange part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Callan Bentley, Piedmont Virginia Community College
Students learn how to use the online Paleobiology Database to map changes in the distribution of fossil vertebrates in the Americas through time. They will generate distribution maps for several key fossil groups ...

Counting Critters: Using the Paleobiology Database to track fossil diversity through geologic time part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Rowan Lockwood, College of William and Mary
Students learn how to use the Paleobiology Database (PBDB) to develop a diversity curve showing changes in global biodiversity through time. They then use this curve to explore major events in the history of life, ...

Biostratigraphic and Lithostratigraphic Correlation of Sedimentary Strata in the Atlantic Coastal Plain part of Paleontology:Activities
Bret Bennington, Hofstra University
In this laboratory exercise students work in groups to create a fence diagram cross section of the Atlantic Coastal Plain by correlating a sequence of well logs recorded along a NW–SE transect through coastal ...

Bioturbation Exercise part of Paleontology:Activities
Ronald Martin, University of Delaware
Students are given data for three unidentified hypothetical environments and asked to determine the relative effects of mixed layer thickness, sediment accumulation rate, and bioturbation rate based on a simple ...

Paleobiology Database Activity for Historical Geology part of Paleontology:Activities
Heather Wall, Syracuse University; Jessica Terrien-Dunn, Spelman College
This laboratory exercise uses the Paleobiology Database to examine the relationships between continental position, sea-level and distribution of life through time.

Grant Proposal Project part of Paleontology:Activities
Rowan Lockwood, College of William and Mary
This grant proposal assignment is the final project for my paleontology course, requiring students to apply the hands-on research skills they've developed throughout the semester.

Using Range Through Charts: Constructing a Diversity Curve part of Paleontology:Activities
Katherine Bulinski, Bellarmine University
This is a hands-on jigsaw-style assignment for a non-majors geology class that illustrates when different groups of organisms originate, persist and go extinct in geological time. Students will be able to construct ...

Graphic Correlation part of Paleontology:Activities
Ronald Martin, University of Delaware
The objective of this exercise is to acquaint you with a simple graphic method that can be used to: determine changes in sediment accumulation rate, evaluate the completeness of different sections and environments, ...

Earth History and the Fossil Record part of Paleontology:Courses
James Ebert, SUNY College at Oneonta
This course is an overview of the history of the Earth with emphasis on how we know this history. Lectures focus on major events in Earth history and labs develop skills in observation and techniques used to ...