Steno's Laws Racing Game

Steno's Laws Racing Game is a game I play with my Earth Science students so they can practice their understanding of Steno's laws. I do this game after they have already had an introduction to the the laws in our relative age section.  I made this game up, but I did not make the cross sections myself.  The laws they practice are: The law of Superposition, The law of Cross Cutting, The law of Original Horizontality and The law of Lateral Continuity.

The GAME 

Students are put into groups of between 2-4 students depending on how many you have in the class.  2-3 is perfect, but it can work with 4.  They decide who will be their "walker" and who will be the person who records.  I then have 7 different cross sections starting from the simplest to the most difficult.  On GO they take their first envelope labeled with a "1" and walk briskly back to their seats.  If you have chairs to separate their lanes they are less likely to run into each other or try and obstruct the path of one another. They will also have a a few pieces of paper that they will use to show me their answers.  The students will then have to run back to their group and put the layers in order from oldest to youngest.  When they think that they have figured it out they will then walk briskly back to me to get their answers checked.  If they have it they will now grab the next envelope up.  The team that finishes all of the envelopes will win.  For lower level/younger classes you can adjust how difficult the cross sections are.  For higher ability students I would have them draw their own cross sections that show at least 3-4 of all of the laws at once to win the game or it can even be given as an extension, homework assignment or make that their quiz. The kids usually have a lot of fun with the game and it really does help cement the laws in them.

Here is the paper that I use.  Please let me know if you have any questions!