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Investigating the Geologic Time Scale: Creating posters to Display Trends in Geologic Time part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This observational inquiry activity involving careful descriptions of rocks and fossil including age will be used to create a scalar accurate geologic time scale. Students will observe and learn that the geologic time scale was created based on changes in fossil, rock, and atmospheric changes.

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Subject: Geoscience:Geology
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity

Mineral Density: Teaching accuracy, slope, and percent error in the Earth science classroom part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a lab investigation in which students make mass/volume measurements of several samples of the same mineral to determine the mineral's density. Students graph their data and make the connection between their qualitative understanding of what density is and the mathematical/graphical representation of density.

Grade Level: High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Subject: Chemistry:General Chemistry:Properties of Matter, Geoscience:Geology, Mathematics
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity