Waxing Discoveries

Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago. ||Next Generation Science Standards||Grade 3||Life Science||Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity |||Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time. ||Next Generation Science Standards||Grade 4||Earth and Space Science||Earth’s Place in the Universe |||Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth’s 4.6-billion-year-old history. ||Next Generation Science Standards||Middle School||Earth and Space Science||Earth’s Place in the Universe|||Analyze and interpret data on the distribution of fossils and rocks, continental shapes, and seafloor structures to provide evidence of the past plate motions. ||Next Generation Science Standards||Middle School||Earth and Space Science||Earth’s Systems|||Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past. ||Next Generation Science Standards||Middle School||Life Science||Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity|||Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer evolutionary relationships. ||Next Generation Science Standards||Middle School||Life Science||Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity