Fossils

[gneissisnice]

Awww thats so sad. The state shouldnt let your schools get so bad like that.

[Mr. Cool]

ohh. most people in my grade chose to go to a private highschool outside my school's district. I dont blame them.. my school district has absolutly NO MONEY therefore we cant have any AC in the fall/spring or heat in the fall, no paper at all, most of the computers are crap, theres leaks in the roof throughout the building, the lockers are very old and are falling appart, and the building just looks very old. my school was embarrassed to go to practice meets in the next town over and at a school in the middle of the state because the schools were just so nice compared to ours. We were thinking of holding a practice meet next year but we might do it in one of the new elementary schools because we dont want any further embarassment

Your school should ask for money from your state's government.

[dudeincolorado]

grrr i cant understand the diffrennce between brachiopods and bilaves the look simailar to me...

[oh joy]

fossils looks hard...is it? i'll still luv rocks and minerals better though...

[dudeincolorado]

theres a steep learning curve but like rocks...

[gneissisnice]

grrr i cant understand the diffrennce between brachiopods and bilaves the look simailar to me...

Brachiopods and bivalves look sorta similar, but have different kinds of symmetry. Brachiopods have bilateral symmetry, so that their left half looks like their right half, while bivalves have symmetry between shells. If that didnt make sense, when you split open the shells, the 2 shells (top and bottom) will look the same for bivalves and different for brachiopods. This is a common question for tests.

[dudeincolorado]

ok so i did the math and thats 140 pages for a hand made guide... thats 70 sheets of paperwow think guidehmmmm i think i should use dividers

[Mr. Cool]

wow, you guys are nerdy. I think we know who's placing at Nats in this event. (if you go )

[gneissisnice]

I got 11th last time I went for fossils, and Im confident I can do better next year.

[Pleiades]

ok so i did the math and thats 140 pages for a hand made guide... thats 70 sheets of paperwow think guidehmmmm i think i should use dividers

no problem.. i can have that done in 2 weeks my amphibians/reptiles guide was 500 pages.
gneissisnice - which do you think was easier to make the fossils guide or the herpetology guide? which was easier to find info on??

[gneissisnice]

To be honest, i have no clue. My partner made the fossils guide. She's graduating, but I'm still trying to see if she still has the binder. Saves me time
Still, i think fossils may be easier, since theyre no longer alive, so you dont have to include behavior and stuff.

[dudeincolorado]

O.o
im including them i guess im weird like that

[dudeincolorado]

ok im having issues starting my binder i have the info i just dont know how to put it on a page

[sugar_sweet111]

I'm organizing my binder similarly to what someone else here is doing.

Name: (plus explanation of most names)
Time Frame: (when they were around)
Physical Appearance: (what they looked like)
Environment: (where they lived)
Life Mode:(stuff like reproduction, diet, and others)
Discovery and Current Uses: (exactly what it says)

Right now I have around 88 pages, but I think there will be more since I want a couple things in there. However, it's hard to find information for some of them......so for example my page about Astraeospongia is almost blank.

[dudeincolorado]

did you try adobon? i fond some good stuff there