SKULLS
The Animal Skulls kit consists of 17 physically accurate skull replicas of North American animals and two books prepared by the International Wildlife Museum of Tucson, Arizona. The prepared curriculum is written at an advanced high school or college zoology level but the lessons can be modified to correlate with younger age level instruction. This kit can be used in conjunction with these study kits: Discover Wild and Making Tracks. The activities in each of these kits will stimulate student awareness in ecology and encourage conservation as the class explores different facets of animals familiar to North America.
Kit contents include these skull replicas: Dog, mountain lion, horse, bear, opossum, armadillo, beaver, woodchuck, little brown bat, coyote, raccoon, turkey, python, iguana, snapping turtle, deer, and jackrabbit.
The book Wildlife Classroom Activities contains unique activities and exercises for grades K-8. There are 45 activities in the book, five apiece for each grade level. These include objectives, background information, procedures, discussion topics and points. Animal Skulls, a Guide for Teachers, Naturalists and Interpreters contains 13 units with in-depth information and suggested activities. The book is adaptable to any anatomy lesson for ages 15-adult. Anatomy, teeth, diet, and aging are discussed. Bird, mammal, and reptile skull variations are thoroughly covered.
The content of the kit Skulls encourages students to build connections that link science to technology and societal impacts. These are interrelated to community health, population, natural resources, environmental quality, human-induced hazards and global challenges that affect all living things.
Concepts addressed by this kit include: Cause & Effect, Interaction, Organism Evolution, Fundamental Entities, Interaction, Scale Model, Theory, Quantification, Population, Change Cycle, Order, Probability, Perception.
Processes addressed by this kit include: Classification, Communication, Defining Operationally, Hypothesizing, Inference, Observation, Prediction, Relativity, Time-Space, and Statistical Analysis.
Content Standards addressed by this kit include Biology/Life Sciences, Language Arts, and Mathematics. The skulls have also been used in Visual Arts exercises and can fulfill some of these standards.
CALIFORNIA VISUAL ARTS STANDARDS, SKULLS
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