Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Evolution of Life in 24 Hours

Evolution of Life Compressed in 24 hours

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2_6cqa2cP4

Summary:
This video is a simplified overview of the evolution of life on earth it was to be compressed into 24 hours.
4:00 am- arise of first single cell organisms that spend a lot of time alone
1:00 pm- first eukaryotic cells with internal organs
6:30 pm- cells form colonies and first multicellular life develops
8:30pm- sea plants appear (animal life erupt)
9:57 pm- plants and land mammals
10:24- forest and winged insects appear
11:41- mass extinction event vanish dinosaurs
age of mammals 11:59 humans emerge

Relevance to Class:
Our unit in class is all about the evolution of life and this video gives the basic outline of what we are learning in detail. The video also has vocab words we are learning like "mass extinction" and etc. This video would help at the beginning of the unit to give a preview of what is to come in full depth and detail.

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