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What can teeth tell us about an animal's diet? Learners examine animal skulls to determine what their canines, incisros, premolars, and molars reveal.
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Instructional Ideas
- Call your local natural history museum to see if they rent or loan out skulls or teeth for educational use
Classroom Considerations
- Consider numbering the skull pictures to assist students in completing the worksheet
- The sheet with the skulls asks students to place the animal into the worksheet; this will probably be confusing, since it doesn't actually fit into the worksheet. Explain this to the class before starting
Pros
- High-quality images of animal skulls
Cons
- The graphic organizer worksheet asks for the skull number, yet the skulls aren't numbered
- The column "New Category" on the worksheet isn't clear, but most likely is for correcting the worksheet as a group