Lessons below address this concept: Scientists use anatomical features to infer the relatedness of taxa.
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Lesson Title (Description) Grade Level Lesson Type
Crocs, Then and Now
This lesson has students investigate the geographical distributions, habitats, and other features of modern crocodilians and SuperCroc. Students consider what can be learned about one species by studying the other.
6-8 Classroom activity
Interactive investigation: The arthropod story
This interactive investigation delves into the amazing world of the arthropods and examines their success and their evolutionary constraints.
6-8 Web activity
Stories from the Fossil Record
This web-based module provides students with a basic understanding of how fossils can be used to interpret the past.
6-8 Web activity
What did T. Rex Taste Like?
In this web-based module students are introduced to cladistics, which organizes living things by common ancestry and evolutionary relationships.
6-8 Web activity
 


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