Assessing the Validity of Information Presented to the Public
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This assessment will mostly be done on the computers with you selecting your evidence for each of the three theories and processing and evaluating your data to build up a portfolio. You will then use this to create a report on the validity of the information about dinosaur extinctions presented to the public. Possible Sources of Information |
- Listen to this Radiolab podcast - Dinopocalypse.
- Read this National Geographic article.
- Consider the proposal from three New York University students.
- PBS's great Evolution - Extinction website
- The Royal Society's Alpha 116 Book Fatal Impact
- See this EarthSky article and podcast about Gerta Keller's theory
- Read this ScienceDaily article
- This UniverseToday article explains more about the KT boundary
- Read this AllAboutCreation article (the word "Creation" should set your warning bells going)
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