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Deep time: the geological timescale

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About how old is the Earth?

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How old is the Earth, and how do we know? You will put big events in Earth's history in order and squeeze 4.6 billion years into one day to see how recently humans arrived.

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Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. The geological timescale
  5. How do we know the age of rocks?
  6. I Do
  7. Hinge Check
  8. We Do
  9. Order Earth's events, oldest first
  10. Explain why humans are the last few seconds
  11. Self-Check
  12. Homework
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