Advanced: Classification poster project (extra credit for some folks!)

See pages 7-9 for the actual project pages
https://www.georgiastandards.org/Frameworks/GSO%20Frameworks/7%20Alternative%20Integrated%20Framework%20Taxonomist.pdf
Click on this link for the research info
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html

after you finish your Fossil Project... CLASSIFICATION JEOPARDY!

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Helpful links

the importance of fossils -

http://www.gsa.state.al.us/gsa/fossil_imp.html

what can fossils tell us?

http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/fossils/intro/proof.htm

What is a fossil/How are they formed?
http://www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/whatisafossil.htm
http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/fossils/intro/

Evidence of Evolution?
http://www.agiweb.org/news/evolution/examplesofevolution.html
http://bioweb.cs.earlham.edu/9-12/evolution/

Evolution Project - due December 16, 2013

You are a researcher assigned to a company that builds large resort hotels and vacation complexes in exotic places.  One of your company’s projects is being held up by the findings of a large number of fossils of extinct animals that inhabited the earth a long time ago.  The government wants your company to stop all building but this will cost your company several million dollars a day which it cannot afford.  Your contractors and subcontractors, as well as your financial supporters (the banks that have loaned you the money for the project), must be paid and no one is doing any work.  The president has asked for a short paper explaining how these fossils can be that valuable and what the company can do to get back to work on the project.  The president does not believe in this evolution theory and asked for a paper explaining this to him. 

Explain to the president how the fossils tell a story and how evolution has played an important role in nature.

You are one of several researchers who are trying to be the first to explain this problem to the president.  The first one with the best explanation will receive a large bonus.  You are writing to the president and his immediate staff.  You are trying to be the first with the most accurate information and simple answer to reach the president.  Your paper and others will be screened by the president’s chief advisors.

You must prepare an essay of at least five paragraphs – more, but not much more, would probably be more effective – explaining the way scientists use fossils and how these are used to explain evolution.  The president does not want garbage.  He also does not like excess information.  He is very busy so don't waste his time.  A successful paper would be one that explains to the president and his staff what these fossils show and why they are important.  A suggestion of what the company should do to minimize its losses would be helpful as well.

Links

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/darwin/index.html

http://www.ehow.com/about_5449833_fossils-important-science.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution

http://www.windows2universe.org/php/search/search_new.php?search_phrase=fossils%27&submit=Search&search_level=mid&edu=mid&lang=en

http://www.becominghuman.org/

http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-evolution.html

R.A.F.T Fossil Project Rubric

R.A.F.T Fossil Project Rubric

Role: You are a researcher assigned to a company that builds large resort hotels.

Audience: the president of the resort hotel company

Format: Write a paper/powerpoint explain

Topic: Why the discovered fossils are so valuable

Your essay/powerpoint/other product must have:

·        Introduction paragraph

·        3 supporting paragraphs

·        Conclusion paragraph

·        Drawings/pictures that help explain what fossils are

Questions that should be answered:

·        What are fossils and how do they form?

·        How do fossils provide evidence of evolution? What do fossils show?

·        Why the finding of a large number of fossils of extinct animals is so important? Why are these fossils so valuable?

Suggest what the company can do to cut its losses – How can they get back to work on the project or even make money with the fossils?

Fossil webquest - Alternative activity

http://questgarden.com/113/08/4/101116152100/process.htm