South Carolina Studies - Bringing the Geologic Time Scale Down to Earth in the Students' Backyard:
John R. Wagner, Clemson University Intended Audience: This exercise is suitable for the general public, though we use it as part of an 8th grade unit on geologic time. Students should understand plate tectonics ...

Surviving Extinction, A Journey Through Time
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Explore prehistoric environments over the past 350 million years, make good decisions to avoid deadly predators, and discover real expedition sites as you chart your own path through time. 99% of all species that ...

Exploring the Grand Canyon: Mystery of Blacktail Canyon
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layers of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. ...

Exploring the Grand Canyon: Layers and Superposition
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layers of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. ...

Banded Iron Formations, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
The banded iron formations (BIFs) of Karijini Gorge in Western Australia are distinctive units of sedimentary rock that are almost always of Precambrian age. This unique formation is the largest iron deposit on ...

First Reef-building Animals, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Archaeocyathids were important marine organism that lived in shallow tropical and subtropical waters of the early Cambrian Period around 530 million years ago. They became the planet's very first reef-builders ...

Video Games as Physical Geology Labs
Ronald Dorn, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
This resource includes a series of laboratory activities associated with geovisualizations that look and play like a video game. The student controls the video game camera and the avatar to interact with DEM ...

Ancient Earth Pichi Richi Trail, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Deep in the hills of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia we can trace the end of an almost global glaciation through to the base of the Ediacaran Period. Explore the rocks that were deposited in an ancient ocean ...

First Burrowing Animals, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Deep in the hills of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia scientists continue to study one of the most enigmatic stories in the history of life on Earth. This site preserves evidence of a dramatic change in the ...

Haviland Lake Virtual Field Experience
Carolyn Tewksbury-Christle, Fort Lewis College
Students explore an exposure of the Great Unconformity north of Durango, CO. This virtual field experience (VFE) allows students to freely explore 3D outcrops and is scaffolded to get students to answer the ...