1. Warm-Up Activity Study the diagram shown.
How many animals were here? What kind were they?
What were they doing?
Were they here at the same time?
In your notebooks, use your best guess and write down what you think happened at this scene.

2. Deductive Reasoning
Making inferences or drawing conclusions based on available evidence
Observe a situation
Organize it into parts
Evaluate it
Draw appropriate conclusions

3. What’s in the Box?
Using your deductive reasoning skills to identify the contents of mystery boxes.

4. Data Table Mystery Box Observations What do you think it is? #1 #2 #3#4 #5 #6 #7 #8

5. Post-Lab Questions
Which sense – touch, smell, taste, sight, or sound – helped you the most in determining what was in each box? Why?
How many times did you correctly determine the contents of a box?
How might one of these closed cardboard boxes represent a mummy or unearthed coffin?