Layer by Layer: Ocean Sediment Reveals Earth’s Past Climates
First, students will use a self-created map of important events in a year of their own life as an analogy…
The Impression of Impact Craters
In this lesson, students investigate meteorite impact craters and analyze evidence for the K/Pg (formerly known as K/T) boundary impact…
Past Climates Give a Glimpse into Earth’s Future
In this lesson, students analyze ocean sediment cores to describe changes in sediment color, origin, magnetic susceptibility, and calcium carbonate…
The Evidence is Piling Up… On the Seafloor
This lesson has students use or observe models to understand turbidite formation. Students then analyze data from cores and sediment…
Getting Salty
This lesson focuses on how saltwater forms. Students will observe a model to describe how salt enters water sources and…
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…
Analyzing Downhole Logging Data
Students will be able to interpret data from downhole logging to explain why the process is done and what it…
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,…
Discovery Under the Ocean Floor
This lesson has students analyze ocean sediment cores to understand how scientists use this evidence to reconstruct the geologic history…