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Wanted—Butch and Sundance
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Classroom Activity
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Objective
To give students an opportunity to think like forensic
anthropologists.
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copy of "Identifying the Skeletons" student handout (
HTML)
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Photocopy and distribute the "Identifying the Skeletons" student
handout. Organize students into teams.
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Challenge students to piece together the data to determine which
bones might have been the remains of which explorer. Point out
that scientists often must work with inconclusive data. In this
case students may find that, based on the information available,
some bones might be difficult to identify as belonging to a
specific individual.
The size of the bones indicate that they could possibly have come
from the lost explorers. None of the data in the chart are
inconsistent with the heights of the individuals in question. There
are two bones for each of the explorers: H1 and F1 are from the
male. H2 and F2 represent Dr. Molina. R1 and U1 are from Dr. Kelley.
The most difficult bone to identify is F2, because the height of
both Dr. Molina and of Mr. Dumais falls within the ranges that are
predicted for that bone size.
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