Resources for Teaching with an Earth History Approach
Initial Publication Date: August 30, 2006
I have attempted to show that the geological record is extremely imperfect; that only a small portion of the globe has been geologically explored with care; that only certain classes of organic beings have been largely preserved in a fossil state; that the number both of specimens and of species, preserved in our museums, is absolutely as nothing compared with the number of generations which must have passed away even during a single formation...
- Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, 1859
- Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, 1859
The following annotated links lists deal with Earth history in general:
- General Web Resources: museum/information pages, free publications, free Earth history graphics, data resources, and links lists
- Print Resources:
- Articles about teaching Earth history
- Textbooks: mostly for historical geology
- Popular science books dealing a variety of Earth history topics
- Activities: Earth history projects that can be done in class or a lab or out in the field from other Starting Point modules.
- Earth History Courses: course pages with syllabi from different kinds of courses using Earth history approaches
Resources for specific topics
The following pages have their own resource collections, all of them web sites unless specified otherwise:- Evolution: links for astrobiology, biodiversity, extinctions, taxonomy, the genetic basis of human races
- Plate tectonics: links for plate tectonics in general
- Climate change: links for climate change with an Earth history approach
- Geologic Timeline: link for geologic time and the geologic timescale
- History of Science: links to history of geology in general
- Age of the Dinosaurs: links to debate topic references on the hot-blooded vs. cold-blooded dinosaur argument and the K/T extinction.
- Precambrian Resources: links to web resources about the formation of the Earth, the first continents, the origin of life, the Oxygen Revolution, Snowball Earth, and the Ediacaran fauna/Cambrian Explosion.
- The Addressing Creationism submodule contains a lot of resources, particularly the pages of:
- Web Resources: for addressing creationism
- Print and Video Resources: Activities, Approaches, and Material for Addressing Creationism and Pseudoscience, References on Creationism and Creationists, and Research on Learning
- Mechanisms of Evolution Links
