Ten Great Ideas: The vastness of time
| Geological timelines | |||
| Using arm-span as a scale for how recent humans have been around relative to the earth's formation | Link | As ususal, Veratasium does it best. YouTube. 3 mins | 5 Star |
| The history of our world in 14 minutes | Link | David Christian of The Big History project. YouTube | 5 Star |
| A 46 hour geological timeline | Link | Courtesy of the BGS (British Geological Survey). Has a quiz also |
4 Star |
| "The summit of Mount Everest is made of limestone" | Deep Time and Ceaseless Motion from the inimitable Stephen Jay Gould. YouTube | 4 Star | |
| Another short variation of this | From evolution.berkeley.edu |
4 Star | |
| History of Earth in 24-hour clock | Image from flowingdata.com | 4 Star | |
| Using the Grand Canyon to date the age of the earth | Link | 3 min video from pbslearningmedia.org | |
| Lots of different analogies for getting a sense of how recent our arrival is | Link | YouTube via TED-ED. 4 mins | |
| How do we know how old the Earth is? | Link | SciShow on YouTube. 3 mins | |
| Graphic of fossils and rock ages | A graphic showing how fossils can be used to help determine the age of rocks. From absorblearning.com |
3 Star | |
| How the discovery of radiatioactivy changed everything. | Link | Earth Story: Video 1. The age of the earth (4 of 6 ) YouTube.3 mins |
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| From The Big Bang to today | |||
| A fantastic timeline illustrating evolution of both the universe and life on Earth | Interactive from johnkyrk.com Lots of other fanastic animations on the site also |
5 Star | |
| Time scaling of the universe | From The Big Bang to the present day - includes the Evolution of life. From schoolscience.co.uk | 4 Star | |
| The Big History Project | Link | Big History examines our past, explains our present, and imagines our future. Well worth looking at. | 5 Star |