Unit Activity – Web Quest: Time Travel Page 1 of 3 Assignment: Presentation (50 points) You work for an advertising agency that represents the “Back to the Future Travel Agency”. This travel agency offers time travel excursions to those seeking a unique get-away from their daily lives. Your job is to develop a new promotional feature for the company. Overview: You will choose a geologic time period and design a promotional document that represents various aspects of the period. Keep in mind, while researching and composing your promotion that you want to be as thorough as possible while also enticing customers to use the travel agency’s unique services. Choose from these types of presentations: PowerPoint Presentation (maximum 10 slides) Color tri-fold brochure (8 1 2” x 11” paper) Two-page newspaper/flyer (8 1 2” x 11” paper) Slide-show with voice over (maximum 10 slides) Include all of these points of interest in your promotion: Era the period is in Time range of geologic period Relative location on the geologic time scale Major geologic events of the period plate movement topographic changes oceanic changes volcanic activity sedimentation events Flora and fauna of the period - one food chain of the time (maximum 5 animals) - clear descriptions of 3 plants, 3 animals and their habitats - discuss predominant species of the period Minor and/or major extinctions of the period Fossil evidence from the period Climate (temperature range; precipitation) Food sources available for travelers Lodging available for travelers You may find some of these links helpful in your research. -Please keep copyright © laws in mind as you work! Unit Activity – Web Quest: Time Travel Page 2 of 3 - Paraphrasing is allowed, plagiarism is not! Sources will be checked; plagiarism warrants an automatic score of “0” (zero). -Cite your sources in a bibliography at the end of your presentation. (citing will not count as one of the slides in a PowerPoint or slideshow, and must be a separate word processing document for a brochure or news paper/flyer). Informative Links: You are not limited to these links or Internet resources! Use text sources from your local libraries as well. 1. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html 2. http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/geo_time_scale.html 3. http://www.scotese.com/Default.htm 4. ENCHANTED LEARNING GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/Geologictime.html 5. http://www.dinosauria.com/fullindex.html 6. Unit Activity – Web Quest: Time Travel Page 3 of 3 http://hannover.park.org/Canada/Museum/lobby.html 7. http://www.space.com/sci enceastronomy/planetearth/extinction_sidebar_000907.html 8. http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102864&org=olpa&from=news 9. http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/home.shtml 10. http://www.abc.net.au/news/specials/antarcticsummer/stories/fossils.htm 11. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/fosrec/index.html