The Cenozoic Era
Interactive worksheet with auto-grading, instant feedback, and printable PDF.
- Format
- Interactive (Online), Printable (PDF)
- Grades
- 5678
- Subjects
- scienceela
- Standards
- MS-ESS1-4
What's included
About this worksheet
Give your students a clear, structured introduction to the Cenozoic Era, the stretch of Earth's history that began about 66 million years ago and is often called the Age of Mammals. This one-page guided notes worksheet walks learners through a connected story: the mass extinction that ended the dinosaurs, the rise and spread of mammals, the fossil clues scientists rely on, the slow drift of continents through plate tectonics, the ice ages and their glaciers, and the appearance of primates.
As students read, they fill in key terms from a shuffled word bank, keeping them focused and building essential Earth and life science vocabulary. The layout is compact and print-ready, with clear headings and short passages designed for grades 5-8.
What's included:
- One-page fill-in-the-blank worksheet
- Complete answer key
- Word bank of key terms
- Interactive, self-grading digital version
Perfect for introducing geologic time, reinforcing a unit, review days, sub plans, or homework. Aligned to NGSS middle school standards on fossils, evolution, and Earth's changing surface.
Perfect for the way you teach
- Assign in one click
- Track progress per student
- Auto-graded results
- Practice at home
- Print or do on-screen
- Build skill mastery
- Standards-aligned
- Self-paced
- Ready-to-use today
