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Help your students explore the geologic time scale with the Geologic Time Scale Virtual Lab Activity with Guided Student Worksheets & History Simulation!

Designed to promote scientific inquiry, this no-prep interactive virtual lab activity allows students to explore earth's history and the geologic time scale using an NGSS-aligned phenomena-based science simulation! The student worksheet guides students through the simulation to ensure comprehension and understanding, while also encouraging students to make predictions, observations, analyze data, and form conclusions. Check out the preview to see more!


Skills Students Will Practice:

⚗️ Test their Pre-Existing Knowledge of Geologic Time
⚗️ Describe the Major Geologic Events that Occurred in Certain Eons & Eras
⚗️ Analyze how Life Evolved throughout the Geologic Time Scale
⚗️ Identifying the Events that Signaled the End of Certain Eons

⭐ This Activity is Perfect for:

⚗️ Middle school and high school science lessons
⚗️ NGSS-aligned science instruction
⚗️ Virtual labs for blended, digital, or distance learning
⚗️ Sub plans, enrichment, or independent practice

NOTE: This activity links to the free Interactive from Deep Time. Check it out below!

Geologic Time Clock

Purchase includes the 3-page Student Worksheet (PDF), 3-page Teacher Answer Key (PDF), and 3-page Digital Student Worksheet (Google Slides) that is hyperlinked in the Teacher Answer Key.

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VIRTUAL LEARNING

This lab comes with a Google Slides version of the Student Worksheet hyperlinked in the Teacher Answer Key - this lab is designed for digital and face-to-face learning!

❗Permission is granted to copy pages specifically for student or teacher use only by the original purchaser or licensee. The reproduction of this product for any other use is strictly prohibited. Copying this product in any part and placing it on the Internet (even on a personal website) is strictly prohibited and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA).

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Geologic Time Scale Virtual Lab Worksheets | Geologic Time Inquiry Simulation

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Description

Help your students explore the geologic time scale with the Geologic Time Scale Virtual Lab Activity with Guided Student Worksheets & History Simulation!

Designed to promote scientific inquiry, this no-prep interactive virtual lab activity allows students to explore earth's history and the geologic time scale using an NGSS-aligned phenomena-based science simulation! The student worksheet guides students through the simulation to ensure comprehension and understanding, while also encouraging students to make predictions, observations, analyze data, and form conclusions. Check out the preview to see more!


Skills Students Will Practice:

⚗️ Test their Pre-Existing Knowledge of Geologic Time
⚗️ Describe the Major Geologic Events that Occurred in Certain Eons & Eras
⚗️ Analyze how Life Evolved throughout the Geologic Time Scale
⚗️ Identifying the Events that Signaled the End of Certain Eons

⭐ This Activity is Perfect for:

⚗️ Middle school and high school science lessons
⚗️ NGSS-aligned science instruction
⚗️ Virtual labs for blended, digital, or distance learning
⚗️ Sub plans, enrichment, or independent practice

NOTE: This activity links to the free Interactive from Deep Time. Check it out below!

Geologic Time Clock

Purchase includes the 3-page Student Worksheet (PDF), 3-page Teacher Answer Key (PDF), and 3-page Digital Student Worksheet (Google Slides) that is hyperlinked in the Teacher Answer Key.

Looking for more Geology Virtual Labs? Shop these products

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⚗️ Layers of the Earth Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ The Fossil Record Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ Continental Drift & Pangea Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ Plate Boundaries Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

VIRTUAL LEARNING

This lab comes with a Google Slides version of the Student Worksheet hyperlinked in the Teacher Answer Key - this lab is designed for digital and face-to-face learning!

❗Permission is granted to copy pages specifically for student or teacher use only by the original purchaser or licensee. The reproduction of this product for any other use is strictly prohibited. Copying this product in any part and placing it on the Internet (even on a personal website) is strictly prohibited and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA).

_________________________________________________________________

⭐ BE THE FIRST TO LEARN ABOUT NEW SCIENCE RESOURCES! ⭐

Hit the Green Star at the top of the page to follow my store! This will allow you to receive notifications whenever I update current resources and add brand new items.

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NGSSMS-ESS1-4
Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth’s 4.6-billion-year-old history. Emphasis is on how analyses of rock formations and the fossils they contain are used to establish relative ages of major events in Earth’s history. Examples of Earth’s major events could range from being very recent (such as the last Ice Age or the earliest fossils of homo sapiens) to very old (such as the formation of Earth or the earliest evidence of life). Examples can include the formation of mountain chains and ocean basins, the evolution or extinction of particular living organisms, or significant volcanic eruptions. Assessment does not include recalling the names of specific periods or epochs and events within them.
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