Coring Activity.

You only need to complete Part One. We will do Part 2 in class.

A Coring Activity (Law of Superposition Lab)

You are a team of paleontologists (people who study dinosaurs and other ancient wildlife). You have been sent on a mission to study a particular type of dinosaur. In order to do this, you must use what you know about the law of superposition to determine what geologic earth layer you may find your dinosaur in.


Materials:
Different colors of Play dough
A color coded geologic time map
Dinosaur card (one per team)
Dinofiles or dino-folio (books or card portfolios with information about different dinosaurs)

Procedure:
There are two parts to this activity.
Part 1
Your team has been given a list of different dinosaurs to find and a sample of sediment layers. However, the list is not in any particular order. First, you will need to place the dinosaurs in geologic order. Then, take a core sample from your layers and using the color-coded time map, identify which geologic sediments are present. From this, identify the dinosaurs that you would be likely to find.

Part 2
This part uses the dinosaur card. Your team has discovered that this dinosaur has somehow escaped extinction and you want to help it become comfortable living in the 21st century. In order to do this, you must find out as much information about your dinosaur and its habitat as you can from the materials available. This includes the following:
- Where and when the dinosaur lived (be specific here)
- What the habitat of that time period was in that particular area
- What the dinosaur ate and what, if anything, hunted or ate it
Once you have gathered this information, write out how you would use this information to allow your dinosaur to live comfortably in this century.


Geologic Time Chart:

White: Present Day
Blue: Tertiary/Quaternary Periods
Red: Cretaceous Period
Green: Jurassic Period
Yellow: Permian,Trassic Periods


Here’s the list of prehistoric life for Part One:
Tyrannosaurus Triceratops Plateosaurus
Diatryma Elasmosaurus Opthmalosaurus
Apatosaurus Allosaurus Maiasaura
Therizinosaurus Gallimimus Deinonychus
Smilodon Megatherium Velociraptor
Wooly Mammoth Pteranodon Deinosuchus
Stegosaurus Amargasaurus Brachiosaurus
Dimetrodon Eryops Suchomimus
Coelophysis Spinosaurus Kentrosaurus
Giganotosaurus Iguanodon Ankylosaurus
While you are working as a team, each student is responsible for turning in their own written work .

Upcoming events

Congrats on making your "Plate Tectonic Musical." You did an awesome job, I loved the results, you obviously loved them from today's reaction, and it is something I would definitely like to revisit at least before the end of the year is out. Have your minds set to possibly do a "Cell Musical" and Museum when we hit that subject in the fourth nine weeks.

And now for the up and comings:

- Notebook Check on next Wednesday, December 10. This will be our last one for this nine weeks.

- Performance Assessment next Friday: In other words, it will be a test but not like the regular pen and paper at your desk type of test...

- Here's the line-up for next week:

12-8: Notes and discussion on sedimentation and types, effects, and benefits of weathering and erosion

12-9:(Happy Birthday, Mom!) Rock'n Roll Lab Activity--We see what a jar full of rocks will look like after being shaken, rattled, and rolled all day long.

12-10: Notes and discussion on Superposition plus a coring activity

12-11: Differentiated Instruction Centers---there will be some new ones, the rock cycle card game will likely be one.

12-12: Performance Based Assessment:
Here's some things you may want to be prepped for:
- Identifying the different boundaries by sight
- Arranging the types of rocks into the rock cycle
- know your glossary...by now it should contain the terms from chapters 6, 8, and 9.
- Be able to describe what occurs during an earthquake from start to finish using the following terms/concepts: transform boundary, strike-slip fault, epicenter, P-wave, S-wave
- Know the difference between a P-wave and an S-wave and be able to demonstrate an example of each.

Well that's it for upcoming attractions for now. Please remember that extra opportunities are due by December 18. And here are a few more:

*If you went to the CSI Science night, write about your experience-- 8 pts.
*If you went to the "Walking With Dinosaurs" show at the Veteran's Memorial Arena, write about your experience --8 pts, try for a page in length.
*Make your own sedimentary imprint or fossil by simulating the sedimentation process(i.e. wet sand, plaster of paris, an imprint in clay, etc.) . Any imprint will do, be it hand print, footprint, shoe impression, coin, leaf, pet's paw print, etc. Explain in writing how this is like the actual sedimentation process and how scientists or other people might use this in everyday life.