Relative age dating activity

Relative Age Teacher Resources

Teaching about Earth's history is a challenge for all teachers. Time factors of millions and billions of years is difficult even for adults to comprehend. However, "relative" dating or time can be an easy concept for students to learn. Once they are able to manipulate the cards into the correct sequence, they are asked to do a similar sequencing activity using fossil pictures printed on "rock layer" cards. Sequencing the rock layers will show students how paleontologists use fossils to give relative dates to rock strata. Once students begin to grasp "relative" dating, they can extend their knowledge of geologic time by exploring radiometric dating and developing a timeline of Earth's history. These major concepts are part of the Denver Earth Science Project's "Paleontology and Dinosaurs" module written for students in grades Extinction of species is common; most of the species that have lived on the earth no longer exist. The complete "Paleontology and Dinosaurs" module takes approximately four weeks to teach. The "Who's On First?

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Use this interactive to work out the relative ages of some rock layers from youngest to oldest. Drag and drop the text labels onto the diagram. Go here to find out more about how to use this interactive. Scientists use relative dating to arrange geological events, and the rocks they leave behind, in a sequence.

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