Fossilized dinosaur heart
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Students will divide into groups and investigate either the physical structure of saurischian or the physiology of ornithiscian dinosaurs. After reading an article about the dinosaur heart, students work in groups to create a chart that shows how the fossil could change the way we think about dinosaurs if the current interpretation holds up to scientific scrutiny.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grade 8
- Goal 1: The learner will design and conduct investigations to demonstrate an understanding of scientific inquiry.
- Objective 1.05: Analyze evidence to:
- explain observations.
- make inferences and predictions.
- develop the relationship between evidence and explanation.
- Objective 1.09: Use technologies and information systems to:
- Research.
- Gather and analyze data.
- Visualize data.
- Disseminate findings to others.
- Objective 1.10: Analyze and evaluate information from a scientifically literate viewpoint by reading, hearing, and/or viewing:
- Scientific text.
- Articles.
- Events in the popular press.
- Objective 1.05: Analyze evidence to:
- Goal 5: The learner will conduct investigations and utilize appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of evidence of evolution in organisms and landforms.
- Objective 5.01: Interpret ways in which rocks, fossils, and ice cores record Earth's geologic history and the evolution of life including:
- Geologic Time Scale.
- Index Fossils.
- Law of Superposition.
- Unconformity.
- Evidence for climate change.
- Extinction of species.
- Catastrophic events.
- Objective 5.02: Correlate evolutionary theories and processes:
- Biological.
- Geological.
- Technological.
- Objective 5.01: Interpret ways in which rocks, fossils, and ice cores record Earth's geologic history and the evolution of life including:
Grade 9–12 — Biology
- Goal 1: The learner will develop abilities necessary to do and understand scientific inquiry.
- Objective 1.03: Formulate and revise scientific explanations and models of biological phenomena using logic and evidence to:
- Explain observations.
- Make inferences and predictions.
- Explain the relationship between evidence and explanation.
- Objective 1.03: Formulate and revise scientific explanations and models of biological phenomena using logic and evidence to:
- Goal 3: The learner will develop an understanding of the continuity of life and the changes of organisms over time.
- Objective 3.05: Examine the development of the theory of evolution by natural selection including:
- Development of the theory.
- The origin and history of life.
- Fossil and biochemical evidence.
- Mechanisms of evolution.
- Applications (pesticide and antibiotic resistance).
- Objective 3.05: Examine the development of the theory of evolution by natural selection including:
