This week was a whirlwind! We're on week two of remote learning and we're certainly plugging away!
We decided to dig deeper into understanding more about fossils and what they tell us. With some data from the United States--and in the middle of it in fact, we found out there are both sea-based and land-based fossils there!
We decided to dig deeper into understanding more about fossils and what they tell us. With some data from the United States--and in the middle of it in fact, we found out there are both sea-based and land-based fossils there!
Students submitted their ideas about how fossils could form in the first place! We got lots of ideas:
We began figuring out about fossil formation, and then saw that we could begin putting some pieces together. Maybe Utah and Mt. Everest were more alike that we thought!?!?! From here, we looked at where Mt. Everest was over millions of years, and developed some models to explain our thinking!
There were so many ideas!!! And such awesome effort on behalf of some amazing 6th graders! We came to consensus on how we could show how a fossil forms, and how the type of fossil, type of rock, and location of fossil could indicate how the Earth's surface has changed.
So now that we've figured out how a sea-based organism's fossil could become a fossil in the first place, along with how it could end up on the top of Mt. Everest, why is there so little of the seafloor on the top of Everest? Where is it going? What's causing it to disappear?
RSS Feed