How do museums keep up with all of the tiny creatures they collect? Go behind the scenes through a video from a larger playlist covering mammals. The narrator shows how skeletal parts are numbered, then examines the museum's collection of seals from around the world.

Concepts

animal anatomy, skeletons, animal teeth, animal classification, museums

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Place the video in an adaptations lesson for the perfect way to study tooth types and how they relate to diet and lifestyle
• Find pictures of the seals from the video and pass them out to allow the class to make other observations based on appearance
  

Classroom Considerations

• Provide some explanation about some of the tiny marine food sources such as krill discussed in the video
  

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Viewers can compare the teeth of several seal species and infer what and how the animal eats
• Carefully and clearly explains the process of preserving and cataloging specimens
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.6.2 SL.7.2 SL.9-10.2