Description
Engage students as they learn about geologic time in this simple to use scavenger hunt. Students travel to 10 stations where they will find 10 questions. The answers to each question are in short paragraphs on different stations. This allows students lots of movement around the classroom and the opportunity to read the 10 short paragraphs about geologic time several times.
The activity works great to front load the content because no prior knowledge is needed – all answers can be found at the stations. Includes questions such as:
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The Cretaceous period ended when a large __ impacted the Earth. (asteroid)
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Throughout Earth’s history, there have been several mass __ in which many of the world’s populations died at once. (extinctions)
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We live in the __ period. (Quaternary)
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The continents were formed during the __ eon. (Archean)
As students travel around they room, they complete the answer grid which has some letters highlighted. The letters will spell out the answer to a riddle (“What do you call a group of dinosaurs who sing?” “A tyranno-chorus.”)
This activity includes a modified version in which students are told which of the stations to find each of the answers.
Simple to use – just print and go! My students took about 25-30 minutes to complete this activity with no prior knowledge at all.
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