Not many students would forget to say “Dinosaurs!” if you mention the Jurassic period, yet the word scale only conjures up ideas of measuring objects. Most students automatically think of measuring mass, volume, or distance, and not necessarily time. In this activity, students explore geological time scale in the context of major events from the biological, physical, and Earth sciences, as well as from their own lives.
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Type Book ChapterPub Date 4/1/2009Stock # PB237X_7