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Earth History
This section contains an interactive tour of the Earth's history from the Hadean Era to the Quaternary Period and numerous scavenger hunts, literacy activities, and much more.
Earth History Interactive
Description: This awesome feature allows students to learn about each period, era, epoch, or eon in Earth history with a simple click. This feature contains full-length articles, images, videos and more for each part of Earth's history including the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic eras, the Quaternary, Tertiary, Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic, and Permian Periods, and many others.
Earth History Printable Scavenger Hunt
Description: This activity requires students to use the History of Earth Interactive Profile Exhibit to hunt for the answers to the scavenger hunt questions.
Earth History Printable Scavenger Hunt Version 2
Description: This activity requires students to use the History of Earth Interactive Profile Exhibit to hunt for the answers to the scavenger hunt questions.
Earth History Interactive Scavenger Hunt
Description: This activity requires students to use the History of Earth Interactive Profile Exhibit to hunt for the answers to the scavenger hunt questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Earth History Word Search - Online
Description: This is an online Earth History word search. Choose with or without a timer.
Introduction to Dinosaurs
Description: This section contains detailed profiles of nine different dinosaurs as well as articles on dinosaur periods and events such as the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods, extinction, the Morrison Formation, and the mysterious Bone Wars. This section is perfect for conducting research!
Jurassic Period - Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Jurassic Period Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
The History of Oxygen on Earth - The Great Oxygenation Event
Description: This article describes how oxygen came to be on planet Earth.
The History of Oxygen on Earth - Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions.
The History of Oxygen on Earth Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Water on Earth Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This online cloze reading exercise requires students to type the words from the word bank into the correct fields in the paragraph. It gives immediate feedback.
The History of Earth - Pangaea
Description: This article describes the formation and dissolution of the supercontinent Pangaea.
The Supercontinent Pangaea - Fact or Fiction Online
Description: This activity requires students to read a passage about Pangaea. Then, the student must evaluate ten fact or fiction statements. The program gives immediate feedback.
The Supercontinent Pangaea Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
The Supercontinent Pangaea - Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions.
Pangaea Continents Matching
Description: This activity requires students to try to identify the continents from within the Pangaea supercontinent. It gives immediate feedback.
Ordering the Periods in Earth History
Description: This activity requires students to drag and drop the periods in Earth history from earliest to latest, starting with the Precambrian period and ending with the Quaternary Period.
The Incredible Trilobite
Description: This article describes the life history of trilobites.
The Incredible Trilobite Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions about trilobites. It gives immediate feedback. Classified under: Trilobite, Trilobites
The Incredible Trilobite - Reading Comprehension - Printable
Description: This resource includes a reading passage on trilobites and seven multiple choice questions. Classified under: Trilobite, trilobites.
Interactive Rock Chart - Online
Description: This activity is perfect for students studying rocks. Simply click on a rock in the rock chart to learn all about it. Learn bout igneous rocks such as obsidian, basalt, granite, pumice, rhyolite, and andecite; metamorphic rocks such as marble, slate, gneiss, schist, anthracite, and quartzite; and sedimentary rocks such as sandstone, limestone, conglomerate, shale, travertine, and dolomite.
Rocks Scavenger Hunt
Description: This scavenger hunt is designed for use with the Interactive rocks chart. There are nine scavenger hunt questions to find the answers for.
Yellowstone Caldera Reading Comprehension
Description: This is a printable reading comprehension passage and multiple-choice question set. There are seven questions.
Yellowstone Caldera Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This is an online reading comprehension passage and multiple-choice question set. There are seven questions and it gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.
Yellowstone Caldera - Video
Description: This amazing production from the National Park Service tells all about the massive volcano beneath the surface of Yellowstone National Park.
The Eruption of Mt. St. Helens Reading Comprehension
Description: This is a printable reading comprehension passage and multiple-choice question set. There are seven questions.
Trilobite Coloring Page
Description: This is a trilobite coloring page courtesy of the National Park Service.
Devonian Reef Coloring Page
Description: This is a Devonian Reef page courtesy of the National Park Service.
Ordovician Reef Coloring Page
Description: This is an Ordovician Reef coloring page courtesy of the National Park Service.
Horseshoe Crab Passage and Crossword Puzzle - Online
Description: Students must complete the online crossword puzzle by clicking on the numbers and entering the answers. A passage is provided for students to hunt for the answers. It gives immediate feedback.
How to Make Your Own Horseshoe Crab - Video from the National Park Service
Description: This awesome video describes the importance of horseshoe crabs and then demonstrates a craft on how to make one out of paper.

