Radioactive Dating

Warm-up

Read the Radioactive Dating Lab and answer the following questions:

1) What is the relative dating?2) What is absolute dating?3) What is half-life?

Radioactive Dating - Essential Question

How could you create a product that helps a classmate correctly infer the age of Earth and the relative age of rocks and fossils from index fossils and ordering of rock layers on a test?

Guided Questions

What two methods do scientists use to determine the age of rocks?

What is the difference between relative dating and absolute dating?

Radioactive Dating Lab

Get MaterialsRead ProcedureConduct Activity

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Homework

Make index cards on Radioactive Dating Concepts

Resources

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Warm Up (in notebook)

Copy the Guiding Questions, located below and in the back of the room, in your notebook.

What is an example of Absolute Geologic Dating and Relative Dating?

What substance does radioactive dating use to determine the age of rocks?

What does the law of superposition state?

Homework

Create notes in notebook from your activity today.