FOSSIL HALLSFOSSIL HALLSProganochelys: a Primitive TurtleProganochelys: a Primitive Turtle

Copy Picture from AMNH Web link on your selected Exhibit Specimen

• Provide 5 interesting facts about your selected Exhibit Specimen

• NOTE: Information can be obtained from the AMNH Website or from other websites.

Proganochelys: Interesting FactsProganochelys: Interesting Facts

Include a photo that you took at the museum of your selected Exhibit Specimen.

You need to include yourself in the photo with your selected Exhibit Specimen.

• List the age of your selected Exhibit Specimen

• List the geologic time period of your selected Exhibit Specimen

Proganochelys: Geologic Time Period & HabitatProganochelys: Geologic Time Period & Habitat

Find a picture of the Earth’s surface during the listed Geologic Time Period

& label picture

Find a picture of the selected Exhibit Specimen’s habitat & label picture

Find a picture of what the selected Exhibit Specimen looked like &

label picture

Cladogram of Vertebrate Evolution

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Highlight the path of your selected Exhibit Specimen

Cladogram #1: Pair of Openings in the Palate

Photo #1 from Museum:

Fossil with Pair of Openings in the Palate

Include name of animal

Photo #2 from Museum:

Fossil with Pair of Openings in the Palate

Include name of animal

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Evolution

Directions for FIVE Cladogram Slides: Select FIVE adaptations highlighted in your exhibit specimens evolutionary history from the Cladogram on the previous slide.

Cladogram #2: Watertight Egg

Photo #1 from Museum:

Fossil with Watertight Egg

Include name of animal

Photo #2 from Museum:

Fossil with Watertight Egg

Include name of animal

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Vertebrate Evolution

Cladogram #3: Four Limbs

Photo #1 from Museum:

Fossil with Four Limbs

Include name of animal

Photo #2 from Museum:

Fossil with Four Limbs

Include name of animal

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Evolution

Cladogram #4: Jaws

Photo #1 from Museum:

Fossil with Jaws

Include name of animal

Photo #2 from Museum:

Fossil with Jaws

Include name of animal

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Evolution

Cladogram #5: Vertebral Column and the Braincase

Photo #1 from Museum:

Fossil with Vertebral Column and the Braincase

Include name of animal

Photo #2 from Museum:

Fossil with Vertebral Column and the Braincase

Include name of animal

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Evolution

PLANET EARTH HALLPLANET EARTH HALL(Remember: Select either the Planet Earth Hall OR Human Origins Hall

to Complete as part of your Digital Photo Journal)

• Pick TWO of the following 5 questions to answer while at the museum.

• Use at least ONE photo you take from the Planet Earth Hall AND an explanation to thoroughly answer EACH selected question.

• The AMNH web link for the Planet Earth Hall provides background information for the 5 questions below.

– How has earth evolved?

– Why are there ocean basins, continents, and mountains?

– How do we read the rocks?

– What causes climate and climate change?

– Why is Earth habitable?

• Pick TWO of the following 7 questions to answer while at the museum.

• Use at least ONE photo you take from the Human Origins Hall AND an explanation to thoroughly answer each selected question.

• The AMNH web link for the Human Origins Hall provides background information under the topics One Human Species & What Makes Us Human? for the 7 questions below.

– How did H. sapiens migrate to the Middle East, Asia, Australia, Europe, and N. & S. America?

– When did H. sapiens migrate to the Middle East, Asia, Australia, Europe, and N. & S. America?

– Why are our brains so unique?– How did language originate?– How did music originate?– How did art originate?– How did humans learn to make tools?

HUMAN ORIGINS HALLHUMAN ORIGINS HALL(Remember: Select either the Planet Earth Hall OR Human Origins Hall

to Complete as part of your Digital Photo Journal)

MUSEUM FAVORITESMUSEUM FAVORITES• Include 10 photographs of your 10 favorite

exhibits at the museum.

• You need to be in half (5) of the photographs.

• Include a caption for each picture describing the exhibit.

• You can use more than one PowerPoint slide to display your photographs