If the Geologic Time Scale had an Instagram..
The Payne Paleobiology Lab at Stanford University focuses on extinction risks in marine animals.
Lesson Plan
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Investigating the question: Does size of an organism change based on oxygen levels available in the environment?
Students will analyze modern fossil records of four different species of a group of organisms called foraminifera, which are single celled protists with shells (tests). All of the specimens were collected from the Santa Monica Basin in the Pacific Ocean just off of Santa Monica, California.
Lesson Plan
Low cost materials