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Human Evolution
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| Subject
Area |
Human
Evolution |
| Age
or Grade |
7th Grade |
| Mass DOE Content Standard |
Recognize that biological evolution accounts for the diversity of species developed through gradual processes over many generations. |
| Prerequisite
knowledge/skills |
Ability
to use rulers and protractors. Basic Math. |
| Description
of New Content |
Human
and primate evolution, parts of the skulll |
| Goals |
Student
will be able to distinguish human skull from skull of ancestor and
other species and be able to identify charterstic of closely related
specicies versus distant relatives. |
| Materials
Needed |
Set
of skull of various skull: |
|
Procedure
|
Student will examine each of the skulls and observe/measure the following: muzzle angles
Definitions, measuring techniques, and a chart to fill in are on this worksheet.position of the foramen magnum prescence of a sagital crest the shape of the dental arcade number of teeth the size of the canine teeth cranial module |
| Evaluation |
Worksheets
will be collected. As class, put the skulls in time order.
Ask the students to describe changes in skulls over time. |
| References | Australian
Museum Web site on Human Evolution |
