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1. Animal Classification Lesson Plan
...breathe in water. The slide show below illustrates different water and land animals. View Slide Show Scavengers Scavengers are animals that eat other dead animals. In the slide show you can see the strong jaws or hooked mouth that is used to tear out the meat from dead animals. Examples are Hyenas, Vultures, Racoons, etc. View Slide Show Turkey vulture Video: ? vultures eating a dead animal ? Hyenas and Vultures competing for carrion ? Hyena carrying off a dead animal Audio: ? Hyena's 'whoop' calling Noctural or Night Animals Nocturnal animals sleep during the day and are awake and active at night. The...
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2. Surviving the Race: a Sea Turtle Dilemma
...n an olive ridley turtle is crawling on the beach. Audio is "They are taking the beach by storm." Looking at worksheet 3, . ask the students to name some predators of ridleys they saw in the video clip. (black crownd night herons, wood storks, raccoons, ghost crabs, coatis, frigate birds, and black vultures) Go on to ask what is an arribada. (the mass arrival of sea turtles to nest.) Fast forward the tape through to where the video is the title: Arribada I "The Sea Turtle Invasion". The background is waves crashing on the beach.; audio is music. Pause the tape. Ask students to look or listen for predat...
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3. Plant Restoration Project
...urfaces leaves with waxy surfaces leaves that smell evidence of leaf texture differences on the same plant (why the difference) Describe/or draw invertebrate sightings (e.g. butterflies) Describe/or drawing reptile sightings (e.g. snakes, lizards) Describe bird sightings (e.g. ravens, hawks, turkey vultures) Describe mammal sightings (cottontail bunny, jackrabbit, squirrel, mouse). Draw footprints from a wild animal Animal burrow = find a blue hectare post (write post number), count 5 paces, then walk in a circular pattern counting all burrows) Count sightings of bird nest Find an ant colony and count...
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4. Paula Weber
...leave waste on top of soil 5: control: bury waste, turn soil, water over time Introduce Scientific Principle/Discussion: -How do the columns work? -What is responsible for breaking down the organic material (decomposers)? -What are decomposers? Bacteria, fungi (mold, mushrooms), earthworms, insects,vultures -Which ones will work in your columns? -How do decomposers work? They break down organic matter into its constituentelements, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and others leaving them forthe soil and air. The transformation of organic material into these elementscauses the release of water, gases a...
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5. BIOME: Deserts
...d writing poems and songs. Three sample test questions are provided below: 1. A desert is a: a) moist, rocky region b) semi-dry, plains region c) dry, sandy region d) wet, forest region ( Answer: c ) 2. Which of the following would NOT be found in a desert environment? a) snakes b) elk c) cactus d) vultures ( Answer: b ) 3. Which of the following is NOT a desert? a) Death Valley b) Mohave c) Sahara d) Everglades ( Answer: d ) Useful Internet Resources: Desert Life in the American Southwest http://www.desertusa.com/life.html Sierra Club http://www.sierraclub.org The Wildlife Society http://www.wildlife....
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6. Biomes: Adapting to Deserts & Other Ecosystems
...a list of desert within your DE animals; the number should equal the number of students in the class. Choose animals from streaming these four categories: mammals, birds and fish, reptiles and amphibians, and insects and account. If you spiders. Examples include geckos, roadrunners, ravens, turkey vultures, Gila monsters, don't have an camels, and iguanas. For more animals, visit these Web sites: account, sign up for a demo here. http://www.desertusa.com/animal.html http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/desert/animals/index.htm _ 2. Hold a class discussion of desert biomes. Ask students what they know about de...
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7. Feeding Habits of Marine Animals
...been met. Beyond the Activity Further activities which relate to and extend the complexity of the experiment. They can use their new knowledge of feeding habits of marine animals and apply it to feeding habits of land animals. Examples include spiders as suspension feeders, lions are predators, and vultures are scavengers. Web Resources A web address with information on the topic of the activity. Web Address Additional References Reference Moyle, Peter B. Fish: An Enthusiast s Guide. University of California Press, Berkeley: 1993. Buchsbaum, Ralph, et al. Animals Without Backbones. The University of Ch...
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8. Heroes in Our Community
...n was too hot and burned off all of the fur on Possum's bushy tail. That is why today possum's tail is long and bare. What happened to the Vulture when he tried to get the sun? Vulture tried to carry the sun on his head. It burned off all his head feathers and made him dizzily fly in circles. Today vultures are bald and fly in circles. Do you think that you would attempt to get the sun after you saw what happened to Possum and Vulture? Do you think Spider was brave? Explain that one does not need to be big and strong in order to do something great for their people. Day Two: Read the story "The Hero of...
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9. Rhona Bitterman
...nisms break down organic materials or materials that come from living things such as food waste, wood and carcasses. Materials that other living creatures can break down are termed biodegradable. When an organism dies, broken down by a succession of other living things, initially by scavengers like vultures or beetles and later by decomposers such as bacteria and fungi. As the microorganisms consume the organic material, they produce wastes that serve as nutrients for plants and other living things. In this endless cycle, waste is recycled back to the earth for rebuilding. Objectives: To observe how th...
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10. Angela Tate
...and nutrients. This group includes herbivores(plant eaters), omnivores (meat and plant eaters) and carnivores (meat eaters). Decomposers: Organisms such as fungi (mushrooms, mold, etc.) and bacteriaspecialized to feed on dead plant and animal material. This group also includessome consumers such as vultures, earthworms, ants and crayfish. In this lesson, students will focus on producers, or plants that are foundtypically in a prairie. Most plants have four basic needs which are metby the abiotic components of their environment: water, soil, sunlight andair. Green plants, like animals, need food, but un...
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