Posted Thursday, January 29, 2009
Featured on Episode 17 of the 2008-2009 season
A man in California recently came across the ancient past in his own back yard. While searching for gold with a metal detector, Greg Riecke stumbled upon two tusks that once belonged to a mammoth or mastodon, the ancestors of elephants. They roamed California during the Ice Age. The tusks could be anywhere from sixteen-thousand to two million years old. A crew from the San Bernadino County Museum has been chiseling away at the dirt surrounding the tusks. The crew has also found ancient bison and turtle fossils.
Students in this week’s lessons will learn more about Mastodons and mammoths and the Ice Age from where they came.
Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Subjects: Science
Standards Addressed: Students will be able to write informational reports that includes fact and examples.
Students will be able to differentiate between the life cycles of different animals.
Students will be able to explore how fossils provide evidence about animals that lived a long time ago.
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