Categories: Archaeology and Palaeoenvironment, For Schools, Open Educational Resources, Zooarchaeology
Subject: Geography, Age range: 7-11, Resource type: Lesson (complete). Three lessons covering, adaptation, survival characteristics and the extinction of the woolly mammoth with comparison to living elephants. Includes presentation slides and student worksheet with answers. An Open Educational Resource from the University of Edinburgh Open.Ed.
Aimed at Level 2 (Biodiversity and interdependence, SCN 2-01a) This resource bundle includes: Lesson 1: Woolly mammoths and the ice age Lesson 2: The pygmy mammoths Lesson 3: Comparison of African elephant and the woolly mammoth Created as part of the School of Geosciences’ Outreach Programme, which allows students in their final year to work in partnership with a local school to develop a set of lesson plans. Author: Chloe Young, adapted by Cecily Plascott. Unless otherwise stated all content is released under a CC-BY 4.0 license. Cover image: Model of Mammuth primigenius at the Royal BC Museum (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wooly_mammoth_model.jpg) by Iain Reid (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:IJReid) is licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Creative Commons "Attribution"
