Vertebrate presentation/Model or Essay Assignment

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Both Zoology classes taught by your teacher will work together to create one large geologic time line to scale.  The timeline will include :

• Precambrian environment from Earth's earliest history to its period of cooling at the end of the Precambrian Era
• 4 eras of time ( Precambrian, Paleozoic,  Mesozoic,  Cenozoic ) with the dates of each era
• periods of time and the dates ( Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary, Quaternary )
• small images of plants and animals from the time periods, glued on to the time period
• photos of artists

Time scale -  the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old.  Using 5 billion as an outside limit, calculate the length of paper we would need if we let 1 cm = 1,000 yrs, 10,000, 100,000, 1,000,000, 10,000,000 years

You and your partner will be assigned a time period for which you will

• EACH be required to contribute a minimum of 4 images of prehistoric life forms that existed in that time period.  The images can not be larger than 4 x 4 cm.  They can be hand drawn and colored , printed in color, printed in black and white and then colored.  Put your images in a paper envelope and submit them for a grade.  Write our name on the envelope and the time period.
• work together to create a Power Point Presentation on a Time period with a minimum of 6 frames.  No full text frames or distracting effects;  be sure the font is clear, large, and distinct  enough to be seen from a distance. Do not use black font on dark blue background.
• include - title frame of time period with your names and block # , a picture of the earth and its land masses at that time;
• describe climate and show a complete scene from the time period,
• show clear images 4 plants and 4 animals which are each named.  Tell something about each animal.
• What were the dominant life forms of the period?
• How did the time period start, change and end?  Did it end with an extinction?  What caused the extinction?
• Frame of sources used.

Your power point must be submitted on or before the due date.  Bring in your powerpoint on a CD, on a thumb drive or email it to your teacher. You may not log onto your school account to access your power point when it comes time to show the class.

   .email it  gillespied@nashua.edu   or leonask@nashua.edu, depending on who your teacher is.

         Check rubric handout for criteria that will determine your grade.