5.2: Primate Tweets
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- 138523
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Learning Objectives
- Identify primate anatomy and behavior
- Accurately describe a primate species
Supplies Needed
- Student worksheet and checklist
Readings
- Etting, Stephanie. 2019. Chapter 5: Meet the Living Primates. Explorations.
Introduction
Steps
- Write primate names (gorilla, chimpanzee, tarsier, ring-tailed lemur, etc) on the questionnaire sheets and then draw student names to set partners.
- Randomly distribute the sheets to the pairs, so that partners and primates are randomly assigned.
- Ask students to fill out the questionnaire sheet for their primate based on lecture/lab notes, textbook, and websites provided (see “For Further Exploration” below). Some traits on the sheet won’t be relevant to every primate; students can insert N/A as appropriate. Using this information, students will then create tweets, following the instructions on the activity sheet.
- Read or display tweets, and ask other students to guess which primate it describes, or have students post their tweets on an online discussion board so other students can “reply” with their guesses.