In this activity students will use crayons to make rubbings of different objects in the natural environment. If you are at Cache creek and have access to the Mammoth tooth, this might be a good object to start with. After students have collected their rubbings, on a big mural size piece of butcher paper have students draw a scene with plant that where native at the time Mammoths lived. You can use this activity to talk about the ecology of the area when Mammoths were alive and also the types of vegetation and other animals which roamed the earth. Once the mural is drawn, have students trace a mammoth cutout on their rubbing picture and then cut out a mammoth.
Students can then glue their mammoth to the banner and arrange the mammoths within the scene.
At this point students can discuss what is hypothesized about mammoth social behavior and where this information comes from. This web site was created as part of an honors project by five UC Davis students. All rights reserved.