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The use of the fossil record to create this timeline closely mirrors the content of the Disciplinary Core Idea of Scale, Proportion and Quantity.

This image depicts Big Bend National Park, located in southwest Texas.

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Seeing the Strata Strata are distinguished from one another on the basis of their physical composition.

Lesson Summary Rock strata refers to stacked-up layers of sedimentary rock.

Again, this exercise is only hypothetical but the experience provided to students can be transferred to actual rock data.

Pick up rocks when you're on nature walks if doing so is allowed or out running errands.

Have your class generated a question and needs to ask a scientist.

Note: teachers may wish to assign a different code to the various fossil pieces.