UC Berkeley
Grade Level(s):
- 13-16
- Advanced
- General
Source:
- The ChronoZoom Team
Resource type:
- Infographic
Time: 1-6 hours
Overview
"Big History" is the currently active effort to bring together in a unified way all of the information about the past, both humanistic and scientific. One of the problems for anyone teaching Earth history or Big History is how to help students (or anyone) to comprehend the time scales. This series of graphic panels helps address this challenge by presenting Big History in a sequence of time scales.
- [History of life: Grades 13-16] Present-day species evolved from earlier species; the relatedness of organisms is the result of common ancestry.
- [History of life: Grades 13-16] Biological evolution accounts for diversity over long periods of time.
- [History of life: Grades 13-16] Through billions of years of evolution, life forms have continued to diversify in a branching pattern, from single-celled ancestors to the diversity of life on Earth today.
- [History of life: Grades 13-16] Life on Earth 3.8 billion years ago consisted of one-celled organisms similar to present-day bacteria.
- [History of life: Grades 13-16] There is evidence of eukaryotes in the fossil record from about one billion years ago; some were the precursors of multicellular organisms.
- [History of life: Grades 13-16] Geological change and biological evolution are linked.
- [History of life: Grades 13-16] Tectonic plate movement has affected the evolution and distribution of living things.
- [History of life: Grades 13-16] Living things have had a major influence on the composition of the atmosphere and on the surface of the planet.
- [History of life: Grades 13-16] Mass extinctions occur.
- [History of life: Grades 13-16] Extinction can result from environmental change.
There are no NGSS/DCI concepts currently linked to this resource.
This resource is best suited for those teaching specialized undergraduate or graduate level courses in Big History or Earth History.