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Course: VR Expeditions
Google Expedition - American museum of natural history
- 6-6 grade
- Beginner
Lesson Description:
This lesson proposes a visit of the American
Museum of natural history it contains 10 scenes:
Scene 1: The Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals
Scene 2: Alaskan brown bear
Scene 3: Wolves
Scene 4: Hall of Saurischian dinosaurs
Scene 5: Tyrannosaurus Rex
Scene 6: Apatosaurus
Scene 7: Allosaurus
Scene 8: Milstein Hall of Ocean life
Scene 9: Dolphin and tuna
Scene 10: Walrus
What otehr animal is with the bison in the diorama?
What differences can you identify between the environments of the bison and the moose?
What strategies can you think of the help save species from extinction?
How is a bear model made?
What are some similarities and differences between polar bears and brown bears?
How might changes in climate affect the brown bear?
Can you follow the path of the wolves and the deer?
How might astists create the shadows of the wolves?
Is the gray wolf more closely related to a brown howler monkey or the yellow mongoose?
What makes Saurischian dinosaurs different from the other dinosaurs?
How do scientists use cladograms?
What other charcteristics do you think scientists might use to categorixe different groups of animals?
Why do you think T. rex had such sharp serrated dagger-like teeth?
How long do you think T. rex could live?
How do we know how old T. rex fossils are?
What other animals graze like the Apatosaurus might have?
Name another sauropod dinosaur.
What research might have resukted in the tail being elevated in the renovated mount?
What other dinosaur does the Allosaurus remind you of?
What quaities made the Allosaurus a top predator?
What clues would you look for to figure out what happened to this Apatosaurus?
Name some other creatures that live in the ocean.
Can you find an anotomical feature that whales and humans have in common?
Is the blue whale more closely related to the whale shark or a red panda?
What other whales can you see in the hall?
What are some of the ways ocean animals move?
Dolphins and tuna tend to feed in the same area on the same prey. What risk does this pose?
Name some other animals that have tusks.
Can you find an adolescent walrus?
What behvior of walruses can you see in the diorama?
