Tiny Giants: Microfossils Preserve Earth’s Secrets
This is an introductory lesson focusing on biostratigraphy of ocean floor sediment. Students will build a model of a sediment…
Time Capsules of the Deep: Exploring Earth’s History through Foraminifera Extinction and Evolution
In this lesson, students will use data on microfossils recovered from the ODP Leg 130, site 806, to be able…
Oxygen Isotopes Reveal Ancient Climates
In this lesson, students will join scientists as they explore how deep ocean sediment cores are used to study microfossils,…
Eons in a Grain
This lesson has students analyze fossil evidence to provide context for an ocean sediment core relative to the geologic time…
Drilling into Deep Time: Unraveling Earth’s Complex History with Ocean Cores
Students will be able to make observations and inferences about the different organisms found within the layers of sediment cores…
Investigating Seafloor Spreading Using Nannofossils
This lesson focuses on determining the age of oceanic crust at ocean ridges using nannofossils. Students will model seafloor spreading,…
Digging Deep for Evidence of Changes on Earth
In this introductory activity, students will analyze core sample data to identify sediment composition on the ocean floor. During this…
Climate Fluctuations Recorded in Seafloor Sediment
This lesson has students evaluating oxygen isotope data from different sediment cores and correlating fluctuations in the data with ice…
Climate Diaries of the Deep: Research on Ancient Environments
This lesson focuses on the use of data to study how Earth’s climate has changed over time. Students use foraminifera…
