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Buried in Ash
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Classroom Activity
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Objective
To interpret animal track patterns to describe what might have
happened at a fictitious forest site.
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copy of "What Happened Here?" student handout (HTML)
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Organize students into teams. Copy and distribute the "What
Happened Here?" student handout to each team.
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Challenge your students to interpret the track patterns and
describe what might have happened, based on any evidence they
can infer from the drawing.
Students can observe that 5 different kinds of animals left their
tracks. A watering hole existed in the top right region.
a. A bear walked across the area.
b. A mountain lion walked over the bear's tracks and headed in the
other direction.
c. A rabbit entered the scene, turned around and headed back.
Students might conclude that the rabbit was frightened away.
d/e. A bird walked across the area and a fox came along from the
other direction. Since the bird tracks and the fox tracks are
jumbled together, students might conclude that the bird and fox got
into a fight. Since the birds tracks are not shown leaving, students
might conclude that the fox ate the bird.
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