{"id":282,"date":"2019-09-27T10:28:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T14:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/?p=282"},"modified":"2019-09-27T10:28:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T14:28:20","slug":"taphonomy-paleo-reconstruction-class-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/2019\/09\/27\/taphonomy-paleo-reconstruction-class-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Taphonomy &amp; Paleo-Reconstruction Class Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I made a call on the Teaching College Anthropology Facebook page for help on in-class activities that cover basic information on fossils, taphonomy, dating techniques, and paleo-reconstructions. Sadly, the only responses I received were from other professors following the posts in hopes of hearing about any such activities.<\/p>\n<p>This of course meant that I spent a day and a half thinking of and creating two activities to cover this material. Head on over to my <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/teaching\/teaching-activities\/\">Teaching Activities page<\/a> and scroll down to activity #6 to see (and use if you like) the simple dating techniques activity, and the more complex and fun paleo-reconstruction activity.<\/p>\n<p>I will be running these activities next week (10\/1 &amp; 10\/3), and will post an update on how it went and student reception. I also welcome any questions, comments, or suggestions on what I put together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I made a call on the Teaching College Anthropology Facebook page for help on in-class activities that cover basic information on fossils, taphonomy, dating techniques, and paleo-reconstructions. Sadly, the only responses I received were from other professors following the posts in hopes of hearing about any such activities. This of course meant &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/2019\/09\/27\/taphonomy-paleo-reconstruction-class-activity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Taphonomy &amp; Paleo-Reconstruction Class Activity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11838,391200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-teaching-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/cara-ocobock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}