Sample Video 29: Geology 1: Explore! Fossils
Learning about fossils begins with discovery and continues with meticulous investigation until the conditions are just right to remove the specimen from its natural environment. Then the real exploration begins in the laboratory. How can artifacts from our past teach us about about life before our time and help guide our future? Where can fossils be found? How can they be successfully extracted? What do they tell us about life on our planet before our time? View this archived program and find out.
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Student Tool 66: Video Reflection Worksheet
Students can use this activity on their own to share their learning and insights about any video they watch independently, and this Student Tool can also be used in conjunction with Teacher Tool 318: Sharing Your Insights Through A Reflection Worksheet as part of a classroom or homeschool activity. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
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Teacher Tool 47: Explore Fossils Study Guide
Use this teacher tool in conjunction with the following Educate.Today video: Geology 1: Explore! Fossils.
DownloadTeacher Tool 306: Arts Integration Activity--Expressing Understanding Through Drama
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, provides an Arts Integration activity giving students the opportunity to share their understanding of the subject matter of the video through drama. This teacher tool could be used with any Educate.Today video(s) you our your students choose.
DownloadTeacher Tool 307: Arts Integration Activity--Expressing Understanding Through a Graphic Novel
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, provides an arts integration activity giving students the opportunity to share their understanding of the subject matter of the video through the creation of a graphic novel. This activity could be used with any Educate.Today video(s) of your or your students' choice.
DownloadTeacher Tool 318: Cross Curricular Activity--Video Reflection
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, provides an Interdisciplinary activity that invites students to complete a reflection worksheet to share learning and insights they gained by watching the video. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
DownloadTeacher Tool 322: How I Use the Website--Studying Fossils
In this teacher tool, an Educate.Today member shares an example of using the website with elementary students in their study of fossils. Have a lesson plan idea using Educate.Today resources that you'd like to share? Write it up and send us an e-mail to info@educate.today.
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