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Frosty the Snowman Meets His Demise: An Analogy to Carbon Dating

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The purpose of this Science NetLinks lesson is to develop the idea that carbon dating is based on gathering evidence in the present and extrapolating it to the past. Students use a simple graph to extrapolate data to its starting point.

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    Grade: 9 to 12

    Topics: Number Sense, Physics, Science, Chemistry, Mathematics

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