Life Over Time

Natural Selection

Comic Strip Rubric



Go the the PhET Natural Selection simulator.  Play with the different setting and look for patterns.

Pepper Moth natural selection

The Permian Extinction

Permian Mass Extinction Project Rubric

Creatures of the Permian
Permian Overview - lots of links and resources
Creatures of the Permian
More Creatures
Interactive Map of Creatures

Video
The Day the Earth Nearly Died - Part 1


Possible Causes of the Permian Mass Extinction

Volcanic Eruptions

• http://park.org/Canada/Museum/extinction/permcause.html
• http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/science/new-studies-of-permian-extinction-shed-light-on-the-great-dying.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
• http://www.fossils-facts-and-finds.com/permian_period.html
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/permiantriassic-extinction-event_n_1981835.html

Climate Change

• http://news.discovery.com/earth/permian-mass-extinction-death-by-carbon-dioxide-111118.html
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/permiantriassic-extinction-event_n_1981835.html

Asteriod

• http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/science/new-studies-of-permian-extinction-shed-light-on-the-great-dying.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
• http://www.fossils-facts-and-finds.com/permian_period.html

Ocean Changes

• http://park.org/Canada/Museum/extinction/permcause.html
• http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/science/new-studies-of-permian-extinction-shed-light-on-the-great-dying.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Glaciation

• http://park.org/Canada/Museum/extinction/permcause.html

Carbon Dioxide

• http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/pe/Permian-Triassic_extinction_event