~5e Scat & Tracks, Now & Then All activities are FREE with paid Museum Admission © Location: the Boardroom 4:00- 7:00 ONLY Materials: 1. Blank Field Guides Plastic Scat replicas with label sheets Photos of Coprolites (fossil scat) Plastic feet replicas with label sheets Photos of fossil tracks Track stamps + ink pads Track matching game Noe wN Instructions: © The Blank Field Guide has 8 boxes on each side ‘* Top row boxes are for animals ALIVE TODAY © Bottom row boxes are for animals lived THEN (extinct) ‘Kids can fill in the boxes with stamps, drawings, tracing, or cut out collage with the photos. Educator Info The objective of this activity is to show that the same evidence we use to identify animals alive NOW today (scat & tracks), are the same kinds of evidence we use to identify animals THEN from the past. Scat & fossilized poop, also known as Coprolites, can tell us information about the animal that dropped it. For example how large was the animal? What was this animal's diet? In examining ancient poop we can recreate entire ecosystem: Fossil tracks are a great way to gather information on an animal. The size, depth and distance from one another can tell scientists how big the animal was, how much it weighed and perhaps even how fast it was moving!