Poster Number 150
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Abstract:
The project got interesting when they began placing images on the scale. Most of the scale was empty, while images were accumulating at 600 million years to present. The students got more images to try to fill empty spaces, but the images kept accumulating in more recent times. They came up with a problem statement: Why are most of the fossils of living things 600 million years old or younger? After a discussion, they realized these fossils have hard parts and many are larger than previous fossils. One student also concluded that the fossils are found closer to the surface and therefore should be more recently buried and easier to find. One group of students presented the Biblical flood, which brought up a discussion of various beliefs of Earth's age based on interpretations of the Bible. They were presented a Creation/Evolution continuum to show how many belief systems are involved. It was concluded that in science we must use only the evidence, because we cannot possibly include all beliefs in a science class.
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