Blast from the Past
The Blast from the Past poster activities allow students to discover Earth’s history through hands-on activities and simulations. This poster’s vivid images and clear text portray the story of a large asteroid that collided with Earth sixty five million years ago at the present-day site of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. This impact created the Chicxulub crater.
Searching Microbes beneath the Seafloor Poster
The artwork on this poster depicts research on microbe diversity in the deep biosphere. The activity on the back utilizes Lego blocks to model a method microbiologists use, called Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridization (FISH), to “tag,” identify, and study microbial diversity deep below the sea floor.
Microfossils: The Ocean’s Storytellers Poster
Microfossils are microscopic single-celled organisms that belong to the Kingdom Protista (or Protoctista). Examples include calcareous nannofossils, foraminifera, diatoms, radiolarians, and silicoflagellates; planktonic organisms that inhabit the sunlit surface waters of the world ocean. The tiny shells of microfossils are the sediments that cover vast areas of the seafloor.
JOIDES Resolution Mini-Poster
Magnets at the Core
Check out Which Way is North? for an updated version of this resource!
It’s Not Just the Core That Tells the Story
They then examine sample logs to note patterns and interpret the data.
Impact Craters and the K/T Boundary
Check out The Impression of Impact Craters for an updated version of this resource!
