Standards

Stories From the Fossil Record meets the following standards.

National Standards 5-8

Content Standard C Life Science: Diversity and Adaptations of Organisms
  • Extinction of a species occurs when the environment changes and the adaptive characteristics of a species are insufficient to allow its survival.
  • Fossils indicate that many organisms that lived long ago are extinct.
  • Extinction of species is common; most of the species that have lived on the earth no longer exist.

    Content Standard D Earth and Space Science: Earth’s History

  • Fossils provide important evidence of how life and environmental conditions have changed.

    You may want to look at the entire National Science Education Standards.

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