Sample Lesson Plan Sample Lesson Plan Included with your order, at no additional charge, are lesson plans which you can use as a guideline for your specific needs. For example, a museum might use the lesson plans in setting up its exhibit, while teachers could tailor the lesson for their specific courses. Printed below is the first lesson that comes in the lesson booklet. Discuss concepts in items 1-8 using Models to illustrate diversity of Foram shells.
Forams are microscopic shell-producing organisms that live in all oceans at all depths.
There are more than 1000 known genera and 50,000 species, living and extinct. Approximately 10 to the one-hundredth Foram shells exist in ocean sediments and in rocks. A cubic meter of marine limestone or sediment may contain as many as four million Foram shells. Foram shells cover a larger portion of the Earth's surface than any other individual material. Geologists drilling for oil and gas use fossil Forams as guides to individual layers in the Earth's crust.