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Fossils under your Feet: Using the Paleobiology Database to explore local fossils part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Rowan Lockwood, College of William and Mary
In this activity, students will explore what types of fossils have been found in their local area, where they were discovered, and how old they are, using the Paleobiology Database (PBDB).

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction , Paleoecology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

The Pangea Puzzle part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Mark Uhen, George Mason University
Students learn how to use the Paleobiology Database (PBDB) to produce maps of fossils on the present-day Earth's surface, as well as past continental configurations. They will then use these maps to understand ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Online Resources/Computer Software , Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology, Geoscience:Paleontology:Paleoecology , Geoscience
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

SIGkit (Software for Introductory Geophysics toolkit) for modelling and visualization of data part of Geophysics:Workshop 07:Geophysics Activities
Charly Bank, University of Toronto
Predicting what geophysical data may look like and making basic inferences from data are critical learning outcomes of introductory geophysics courses whether they happen in a classroom or in a field setting. This ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity, Field Activity, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Extinction and Diversity , Paleoecology , Biostratigraphy/Biogeography , Online Resources/Computer Software , Evolution , Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Exploration Methods
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Ships that pass in the night: Competition in the fossil record part of Teaching Activities
John Fronimos, Vassar College; Phil Novack-Gottshall, Benedictine University
A lab activity using the Paleobiology Database to produce and interpret diversity curves for brachiopods and bivalves that tests the hypothesis of competitive displacement, as first demonstrated in Gould and ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Paleoecology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Ethics and Paleontology: Dinosaur Wars part of GeoEthics:Activities
Jim Schmitt, Montana State University-Bozeman
Jim Schmitt, Montana State University-Bozeman Summary Dinosaur fossils capture the interest of students and the public, but their study, collection, and disposition often engender signficant highly-publicized ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Discussion, Activities, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Paleoecology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Fossil Identification part of Paleontology:Activities
Connie Soja, Colgate University, csoja@colgate.edu
This activity asks students to identify examples of types of fossils amongst the exhibits at the Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, New York. Students will build on their ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Field Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Paleoecology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Lab Exercise for California Academy of Sciences part of Paleontology:Activities
Kenneth Angielczyk, The Field Museum, kangielczyk@fieldmuseum.org
This is an exercise developed for use at the California Academy of Sciences by an undergraduate-level class which explores paleontology or the history of life. Students are asked to explore the California Academy ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Writing Assignment
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Paleoecology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of a Cemetery: Interpretation part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:Structure, Geophysics, and Tectonics 2012:Activities
Andy Bobyarchick, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
This activity is an interpretation of a ground penetrating radar (GPR) data set collected from a 19th century slave cemetery in North Carolina.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Event-Specific Items , Paleoecology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Paleoecology Lab part of Paleontology:Activities
James Ebert, SUNY College at Oneonta
This activity gives students practice in identifying fossils in the context of assemblages and allows them to make paleoecological interpretations.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Paleoecology , Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Fluvial Transport of Bones Lab Exercise part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Thomas Evans, Western Washington University
The lab starts with a short lecture on the scientific method, after which students observe the results of a flume run that includes skeletal clasts. They form hypotheses about how bone clasts (or any clast for that ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Paleoecology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review