A trip thru Geological Time Travel Brochure



A trip thru Evolutionary Time Travel Brochure

You will create a tri-fold travel brochure highlighting a trip thru geological time.

Select from the list below

alligator; camel; snakes; feline; canine; elephant; shark; frog; bear; penguin

You may NOT use whale or horse

1. Follow the organism thru time tracing its evolution. You must make three stops in time along the way showing ancient ancestors of your chosen organism.

DO NOT USE THE PRESENT DAY FORM OF YOUR ANIMAL

2. Your Brochure must include all of the following from each stop:

TIME: The era and period of your stop

ANIMAL: A detailed description or picture(s) of your organism

NAME: What that species is called

EARTH: What Earth was like during that era and period

OTHERS: List at least two other organisms that lived at the same time as your ancient animal

ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURE: Possible reasons for the changes in your organism over time

EVIDENCE: describe evidence scientists use to link this ancient animal with the present animal

The evidence can be: Embryological; Anatomical; Molecular; Adaptive; Fossils

3. Your tour guides for this trip are Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace, and Thomas Malthus. You will include a brief biography of each of your guides which will include:

NAME

DATES: years of birth and death

CONTROBUTION: how each contributed to the theory of evolution and the approximate

dates of the contribution

4. A picture of your present day animal. At least three interesting facts about your organism, past or present, that you discovered while on your trip. Your work sited a minimum of three sources (don’t forget to source your pictures) in MLA format use

The layout

A Trip thru Evolutionary Time Travel Brochure Rubric

Panel #1 Complete title page 5 pts

▪ Title

▪ Organism of choice

▪ Student names

▪ Brief description of assignment

Panel #2 Complete tour guide information 11 pts

▪ Name and year of birth/death

▪ Contributions to the theory of Evolution

▪ Approximate dates of contributions

▪ Other significant events that progressed the theory

Panel #3, 4 & 5 (entire inside) Contains complete information pertaining to organism 27 pts

▪ Minimum 3 stops

▪ Name of ancestor

▪ Era and period

▪ Description of evidence

▪ Description or picture of organism

▪ Environmental pressure on organism

▪ Description of Earth in that time period

▪ Examples of other organism

Panel #6 (back) 3 Interesting facts about your organism, include a modern day picture, Work Sited a minimum of 3 sources in MLA format Use and don’t forget to site your picture 4 pts

A Trip thru Evolutionary Time Travel Brochure RUBRIC

|Panel 1 |Title of trip (1 pt) | | |

|Title page |Organism of choice (1 pt) | | |

| |Student’s name (1 pt) | | |

| |Description of assignment (2 pts) |5 | |

|Panel 2 |Includes the following for each tour guide: | | |

|Tour guide |Name of guide (3 pts) | | |

|Information |Year of birth & year of death (3 pts) | | |

| |Contributions to theory of evolution (3 pts) | | |

| |Other significant events that helped with the theory (2 pts) |11 | |

|Panel 3, 4 &5 |3 stops are made and contain the following information pertaining to the organism and environment of the time at each| | |

|(inside) |stop. | | |

|Organism |Name of organism (3 pts) | | |

|& 3 evolutionary |Period & Era (3 pts) | | |

|Stops |Evidence (3 pts) | | |

| |Description or picture of organism (6 pts) | | |

| |Environmental pressure (6 pts) | | |

| |Description of earth of the time (3 pts) | | |

| |Other organisms present during the time (3 pts) |27 | |

|Panel 6 |Contains a picture of the modern day organism (1 pt) | | |

|(the back) |3 Facts or interesting trivia regarding modern day organism (3 pts) | | |

|Modern day |Work Sited MLA format a minimum of three sources (3 pts) | | |

|Organism & |Use | | |

|fun facts | |7 | |

Bonus point available for attention to detail, use of pictures and imagination!!!

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Tour Guide information

PANEL #1

PANEL #3

Picture of modern animal

& Three facts

Information about all three stops in time

Era & Period Species name Evidence

Description &/or pictures

Earth’s environment Others

Environmental pressures

PANEL #5

PANEL #6

PANEL #4

PANEL #2

title

organism

name

description of

assignment

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