The Extinction of the Dinosaurs

This week we will be looking at the extinction of the dinosaurs! But before we dive in, complete Week 14a Quiz!

Dinosaur Doom

The first thing I would like you to do is to complete the Dinosaur Doom activity on Infiniscope. I enrolled all of you through Infiniscope through your OkState email. You should have received an email from Smart Sparrow with the title Your Adaptive Lesson is Ready. Here is a link to the lesson: https://aelp.smartsparrow.com/v/rk7suq9d/mvwveffk (Links to an external site.). This activity is a virtual field trip where you will examine the sedimentary record above and below the K/T extinction event. I think you will all gain a lot from this exercise (I know I did!). This activity took me about 2 hours to work my way through. This exercise does take a lot of bandwidth, so if you run into issues, let me know. I do know that there is an option to watch YouTube videos outside of the exercise (which seems to run a bit faster). You will be completing the questions (which will be recorded on the activity itself and provide a report to me). For your convenience, I included all these questions on the Notes with Gaps for Week 7.

[INSERT Both Extinction Parts.mp4]

So, what was it like during the actual impact?

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Don’t Forget . . . Week 14b Quiz!

Complete the following exercises this week: 

1. Week 14a Quiz
2. Dino Doom- Dinosaur Doom activity on Infiniscope. I enrolled all of you through Infiniscope through your OkState email. You should have received an email from Smart Sparrow with the title Your Adaptive Lesson is Ready.
3. Week 14b Quiz

Extra Material

In my lectures this week, we discussed mass extinction and I mentioned the largest mass extinction event in the earth’s history (the Permo-Triassic). While looking for interesting and engaging videos for the class I ran into this video on CuriositySteam. Since I know you all have access I thought it would be worth sharing: How long does it take to recover from mass extinctions?

https://curiositystream.com/video/2954/recovering-from-extinction

Note: This is an OPTIONAL activity and is based on your ability to access an external site.