Supporting PowerPoint for the Unit –

Studying Zooarcheology:Students engage in inquiry

science to solve the mystery of bones

Zooarchaeology

http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=p1040701.jpg

I. Introduction

The hard parts of an animal can be bones, teeth and shells in which they lived!

All of these can be used for decoration, clothing, and tools!

http://www.nativelynx.qc.ca/en/histoire/iroquoiens-photo08.htmlwww.uwlax.edu/.../earlycultures/images/bone2.jpg

Archaeologists call garbage heaps MIDDENS

http://www.labradorvirtualmuseum.ca/wem/midden.jpg

Bones found at Fort Vancouver in July 2010

© 2010 Deborah Wolf

Archaeologists at work

Fort Vancouver, July 2010

An archaeologist excavating.

© 2010 Deborah Wolf © 2009 Kate McCourt

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/occaneechi-archaeology-primer/1742

© 2009 Breanne Taylor

http://etc.usf.edu/clipartMicrosoft clipart

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Anatomy_and_Physiology_of_Animals/The_Skeleton

http://etc.usf.edu/clipart

http://etc.usf.edu/clipart

Horse femur © 2010 Deborah Wolf

http://www2.umaine.edu/anthropology/AnthroResearch.html

Zooarchaeology Analysis Lab and Comparative Collectionat Central Washington Universityhttp://www.cwu.edu/~anthro/zoo_lab.html

http://www.richardgrubb.com/ZooArch.htm

Use all your senses (except taste) to draw and describe the bone in the sketch area:

Look for Modifications on the bone and record on the card.

Visit the measuring table and records the weight and measure the length with your ruler.

Measure and record the longest part of the bone.

Plan about 10 minutes to finish the data card

http://anthropology.chass.ncsu.edu

Research & Writings

Observations

Tests

Bone Collections & Field Notes

You make a conclusion or judgment using reasoning and not based on direct observations.

Thinking outside of the box is great!

http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn17076-fossil-whale-bone-found-with-shark-tooth

http://www.boxvalley.co.uk/nature/sns/wad69/w69-05.asp

http://www.boxvalley.co.uk/nature/sns/wad69/w69-05.asp

Let’s record 3 Inferences

You can answer:

What could have happened to bring a large horse bone to a space under a bridge?

Why does the bone look like that?

Or?...

What inferences are most likely?

Bronze head of Roman Emperor Claudius found by a young boy at the River Alde at Rendham, near Saxmundham, Suffolk in 1907. http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_prb/b/bronze_head_of_claudius.aspx

longearsmall.com/mt/

Arabian Horse by Cecilia Medford at http://www.pics4learning.com/details.php?img=tara1.jpg

Marcus Aurelius ADE 180-192. Marcus Aurelius. Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Web. 29 Jan. 2012. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/123475/Bronze-equestrian-

statue-of-the-emperor-Marcus-Aurelius-Piazza-del.

http://anthropology.chass.ncsu.edu

Research & Writings

Observations

Tests

Bone Collections & Field Notes

What did you learn in today’s lesson?

How can what you learned be used during the school year?

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Vasquez, J. A. (2008). Tools and traits for highly effective science teaching, k-8. Heinemann Educational Books.

Various images from stock photos and Microsoft clip art galleries.

Lesson plan inspired by:

Rubino, Dareth L. and Hanson, Deborah (2009) CSI for trees. Science and Children, NSTA.

You are welcome to adapt these slides for your own use in an educational setting.