Standard: 6-3.3 Structures, Processes, and Responses in Animals 6-3 The student will demonstrate an understanding of structures, processes, and responses in animals that allow them to survive and reproduce. (Life Science)
Essential Question:
How can you detect similarities and differences in ectothermic and endothermic organisms (Vertebrates).
Reading Anchor Standards: 1, 7 & 9, Writing Anchor Standards 1, 4, 6, & 8
Literary Standards:
Identify and explain the relationships among the different vertebrates characteristics.
1. Take notes on this Web Page to help you understand the differences in ectothermic and endothermic.
2. Watch and take notes on this Video from sciencelearn.org about the differences in the two terms
3. Here is a fun Video on Tortoises from learn360.org that tells about their quest to regulate their temperature. You may pick up some
notes from this as well.
4. After recording the notes in your ISN, your teacher may have you do one of the following projects:
(A) Enter examples of both ectothermic and endothermic animals in a chart like the one shown below using a table in a Word Document.
Essential Question:
How can you detect similarities and differences in ectothermic and endothermic organisms (Vertebrates).
Reading Anchor Standards: 1, 7 & 9, Writing Anchor Standards 1, 4, 6, & 8
Literary Standards:
Identify and explain the relationships among the different vertebrates characteristics.
1. Take notes on this Web Page to help you understand the differences in ectothermic and endothermic.
2. Watch and take notes on this Video from sciencelearn.org about the differences in the two terms
3. Here is a fun Video on Tortoises from learn360.org that tells about their quest to regulate their temperature. You may pick up some
notes from this as well.
4. After recording the notes in your ISN, your teacher may have you do one of the following projects:
(A) Enter examples of both ectothermic and endothermic animals in a chart like the one shown below using a table in a Word Document.
or
(B) Create a chart that compares the differences and the similarities of the terms ectothermic and endothermic like the chart below.
(B) Create a chart that compares the differences and the similarities of the terms ectothermic and endothermic like the chart below.
* Prepared with input from Erin Blake - 6th Grade Science at Carvers Bay Middle School