Agenda — 12/4/00
- Its a question of function fitting form.
- In your lab notebook, write in the above title, your name, your partner's
name (from your group), the date, and page number. DON'T FORGET to
add the title and page number to your Table of Contents.
- To start your purpose, answer the following question: What is the purpose
(job) of the skeleton?
- Video – Eyewitness: The Skeleton
- Three pages from the title page, create a table in your lab notebook
based upon the following table headings:
Table 1
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Animal
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Bone(s)
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Function
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Spider Monkey
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Tail
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Grasping
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- Fill in the table as you watch the Video.
- Birds fly, fish swim, snakes crawl, cats run and leap, and we stand
on two feet.
- For the second paragraph in your purpose, answer the following
questions:
- How does the skeleton determines how well the animal can do what
it does best, whether it is swim, fly, jump, or run?
- Homework: Skeleton Lab
- For the third paragraph in your purpose, make a hypothesis based upon
the following question: How would the skeletons of different animals differ
from each other? What does the skeleton tell you about what the animal's
body can do?
- After your purpose, write your methods based upon how you will
get the information needed to fill in Table 1 and Table 2.
- After Table 1, create another table in your lab notebook based
upon the following table headings:
Table 2
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Station
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Animal
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Bone(s)/ Function
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Drawing
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1
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Human
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Hand/ grasping
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