Taphonomy: Dead and Fossilized Board Game part of Teaching Activities
Incorporating games in teaching can help students retain material and become innovative problem solvers through engagement and enjoyment. Our board game, "Taphonomy: Dead and Fossilized" can be used as an ...

Are we in a modern mass extinction? part of Teaching Activities
A lab activity evaluating the hypothesis that Earth's biosphere is currently undergoing a mass extinction, the so-called "sixth extinction." Students practice quantitative skills by calculating ...

Evolution of Extinct Animals part of Teaching Activities
A classroom/lab activity using the Paleobiology Database to produce and interpret diversity curves for various groups of important and popular extinct animals, such as trilobites, ammonites, and dinosaurs. Activity ...

Introduction to Evolution (Historical Geology) part of Teaching Activities
This is a guided question note sheet with interactive elements linked within for an online course in Earth History or Historical Geology. NOVA evolution lab is one component, along with other introductory videos ...

The Great Clade Race - Zombie Island Edition part of Teaching Activities
This activity is a modification of the "Great Clade Race" (Goldsmith, 2003). This activity is great for helping students understand cladograms/phylogenies, but the original reinforces some problematic ...

Dino Doom part of Teaching Activities
This is an online learning experience that transports learners around the world to different locations related to the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event. Students will collect and analyze evidence to ...

Taphonomy: Dead and Fossilized Board Game - High School Edition part of Teaching Activities
"Taphonomy: Dead and Fossilized" can be used as an active learning tool in a class or lab to promote understanding of Earth processes (Geology), deep time, fossils, and the history of life on Earth ...

Where on Earth were the reefs through geologic time? part of Teaching Activities
Students explore the geographic distribution of reefs through geologic time. Students map fossil occurrences of reef forming organisms on modern and paleogeographic reconstructions using the Paleobiology Database. ...

Creative Discovery Project: Developing Accurate & Accessible Science Communication part of Teaching Activities
The aim of this project is for students to gain experience in communicating scientific evidence to a public audience. For example, how is it that science journalists, museum experts, podcasters, and documentarians ...

Investigation Extinction educational video game part of Teaching Activities
Investigation Extinction is an educational game about paleontology. The game introduces students to the basics of paleo-science by having them explore a series of dig sites with a team of virtual collaborators. To ...