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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

Deep time - what is your metaphor? part of Paleontology:Activities
Jeff Wilson, The University of Texas at Brownsville
Construct your own metaphor, appropriately scaled, for communicating deep time.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Event-Specific Items , Biostratigraphy/Biogeography
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

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.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Biostratigraphy/Biogeography , Evolution , Event-Specific Items , Extinction and Diversity , Online Resources/Computer Software
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Fossil Identification and Classification Lab part of Paleontology:Activities
Ralph Willoughby, University of South Carolina-Columbia
In four lab sessions, students pick fossils from Pleistocene bulk sediment, identify taxa, compile a faunal list, and interpret environments. Strength of the exercise is hands-on experience with fossils, directly ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Systematics and Phylogenetic Reconstruction , Extinction and Diversity , Taxon-Specific Items , Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction , Paleoecology , Event-Specific Items
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Dinosaurs of Moab, UT part of Paleontology:Activities
Benjamin Dattilo, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis
This activity was delegated to an expert (Rod Scheetz, BYU) It is part of a flexible field course Student experience varies widely in this course.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction , Field Techniques , Event-Specific Items , Paleoecology

Eocene Exposure Field Trip part of Paleontology:Activities
Ralph Willoughby, University of South Carolina-Columbia
This field trip visits an exposure near Aiken, South Carolina in Eocene, unconsolidated, clayey quartz sand with abundant trace fossils Ophiomorpha ichnosp. and Ophiomorpha nodosa. Early in the course, this trip ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Paleoecology , Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction , Field Techniques , Taxon-Specific Items , Biostratigraphy/Biogeography , Event-Specific Items