Earth's History Task Cards | Printable and Digital Distance Learning

This is a set of 72 enrichment, reinforcement, and review task cards for your lessons on "The History of Life on Earth." Both printable and digital versions are included. Students will explore the early ideas about the origin of life, and will answer questions about Earth's history, radioactive dating, the formation of organic compounds, and theories about the formation of cells. Students will use their critical thinking skills to solve half-life problems. Key vocabulary words are thoroughly covered.

Choose to use the traditional printable version, or the paperless, digital Google Apps version. This resource is perfect for distance learning and for students in 1:1 classrooms.

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Suitable for life science and biology students in grades 8 -12.

What is included in this resource?

• A set of 72 printable and editable task cards.
• Paperless Digital Version (not editable) for use in Google Drive, Google Classroom, and/or Microsoft OneDrive.
• Six full page, full color diagrams that are used with selected task cards.
• A student answer sheet for recording answers.
• Blank task cards so that you can add additional questions.
• A complete teacher answer key.
• Teacher Guide containing tips, tricks, and suggestions for use.
• Review PowerPoint of 73 slides that can be used to go over answers with the students.
• Teacher guide to Google Apps

Task cards are a fantastic way to enrich or reinforce lessons, review difficult concepts, or provide extra practice for the struggling student. The student reads each card, performs the task, and records his/her answer on the included student answer sheet.

From the moment of purchase, you will be ready to use your task cards in just a few minutes. Simply print the sheets of task cards on card stock paper, laminate, and cut the cards apart. The cards look best when printed in color, but they can easily be printed in black and white.

This set of 72 task cards on "Earth's History and the Origin of Life" covers the following concepts and topics:

• Early Ideas About the Origin of Life: Biogenesis, spontaneous generation, abiogenesis, the experiments of Redi, Spallanzani, and Louis Pasteur.
• Earth’s History: The age of the Earth, radioactive dating, isotopes, radioactive isotopes, carbon-14 dating, the limits of carbon-14 dating, the dating of older rocks and fossils, relative dating, relative age and absolute age.
• The Chemical and Physical Processes that might have occurred that led to the first life forms.
• The First Organic Compounds on Earth: The Oparin hypothesis, the experimental evidence of Miller and Urey, examination of new evidence about the atmosphere of early Earth.
• From Molecules to Cell-Like Structures: Microspheres, coacervates, the experiments of Sydney Fox, the life like properties of microspheres and coacervates.
• The First Life Forms: Key processes of metabolism and replication, protobionts.
• The Origin of Heredity: RNA as the first genetic material, ribozyme, the ability to self-replicate, the role of natural selection.
• The Fossil Record: The fossil record shows change over time, why the fossil record is incomplete, types of organisms that do and do not form fossils.
• The First Single Celled Organisms: The anaerobic conditions on early Earth, first heterotrophic prokaryotes, rise of autotrophs, chemosynthesis, archaebacteria.
• Photosynthesis and Aerobic Respiration: The production of organic compounds in photosynthesis, the release of oxygen into the atmosphere, the damaging nature of oxygen, the evolution of aerobic respiration, cyanobacteria, production of ozone.
• The First Eukaryotes: Differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, the theory of endosymbiosis, evolution of mitochondria and chloroplasts, evidence for endosymbiosis.
• Sexual Reproduction and Evolution: Asexual reproduction in early bacteria, the role of sexual reproduction in natural selection and evolution.
• The First Multicellular Eukaryotes: Arrival of protists, algae, fungi, plants and animals, the Cambrian explosion, first animal phyla, early animals are herbivores, appearance of predators.
• The Colonization of Land: Solving the problem of reproduction without water and the problem of dehydration in an oxygen atmosphere, solutions to these problems, vascular tissue of plants, cuticle of plants, reproduction with pollen, the exoskeleton of arthropods, and the amniote egg.
• Large Scale Process Have Affected Life on Earth: Continental Drift, Mass extinctions, Adaptive radiations.

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