Standard 6-3: The student will demonstrate an understanding of structures, processes, and responses of animals that allow them to survive and reproduce.
6-3.1 Compare the characteristic structures of invertebrate animals (including sponges, segmented worms, echinoderms, mollusks, and arthropods) and vertebrate animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals).
6-3.2 Summarize the basic functions of the structures of animals that allow them to defend themselves, to move, and to obtain resources.
6-3.3 Compare the response that a warm-blooded (endothermic) animal makes to a fluctuation in environmental temperature with the response that a cold-blooded (ectothermic) animal makes to such a fluctuation.
6-3.4 Explain how environmental stimuli cause physical responses in animals (including shedding, blinking, shivering, sweating, panting, and food gathering).
6-3.5 Illustrate animal behavioral responses (including hibernation, migration, defense, and courtship) to environmental stimuli.
6-3.6 Summarize how the internal stimuli (including hunger, thirst, and sleep) of animals ensure their survival.
6-3.7 Compare learned to inherited behaviors in animals.
TIP Chart Correlations: Communication and Collaboration, Research and Information Fluency, Creativity and Innovation
NEWS FLASH: Scientists have discovered a new planet that can sustain life. Your team has been selected to create a new animal that will be sent to live on this new planet as part of an experimental study. You will need to combine two animals and create a totally new animal. If your animal is selected your team will send the first life form to this new planet.
DAY 1
You will draw from your teacher, a list of several different characteristics or aspects that you will use to create your own futuristic animal...(vertebrates or invertebrates, warm-blood or cold blood, etc…) Please list your characteristics in your notes. Use the list as a way of organizing and structuring your new animal.
Visit the Switch Zoo website and experiment with different combinations of animals. This will help you decide what new animal you and your team will create for life on a new planet. You will design the animals’ head, legs, and tail...as well as learning about how each goes about obtaining food and surviving on the new planet.
Visit the Switch Zoo website by clicking on the Button below.
6-3.1 Compare the characteristic structures of invertebrate animals (including sponges, segmented worms, echinoderms, mollusks, and arthropods) and vertebrate animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals).
6-3.2 Summarize the basic functions of the structures of animals that allow them to defend themselves, to move, and to obtain resources.
6-3.3 Compare the response that a warm-blooded (endothermic) animal makes to a fluctuation in environmental temperature with the response that a cold-blooded (ectothermic) animal makes to such a fluctuation.
6-3.4 Explain how environmental stimuli cause physical responses in animals (including shedding, blinking, shivering, sweating, panting, and food gathering).
6-3.5 Illustrate animal behavioral responses (including hibernation, migration, defense, and courtship) to environmental stimuli.
6-3.6 Summarize how the internal stimuli (including hunger, thirst, and sleep) of animals ensure their survival.
6-3.7 Compare learned to inherited behaviors in animals.
TIP Chart Correlations: Communication and Collaboration, Research and Information Fluency, Creativity and Innovation
NEWS FLASH: Scientists have discovered a new planet that can sustain life. Your team has been selected to create a new animal that will be sent to live on this new planet as part of an experimental study. You will need to combine two animals and create a totally new animal. If your animal is selected your team will send the first life form to this new planet.
DAY 1
You will draw from your teacher, a list of several different characteristics or aspects that you will use to create your own futuristic animal...(vertebrates or invertebrates, warm-blood or cold blood, etc…) Please list your characteristics in your notes. Use the list as a way of organizing and structuring your new animal.
Visit the Switch Zoo website and experiment with different combinations of animals. This will help you decide what new animal you and your team will create for life on a new planet. You will design the animals’ head, legs, and tail...as well as learning about how each goes about obtaining food and surviving on the new planet.
Visit the Switch Zoo website by clicking on the Button below.
IMPORTANT: Use the questions form and the chart to help guide you through creating your own unique animal. Click HERE to download the form. Be sure to save your work in your Student Drive by clicking FILE > SAVE AS > (name the file) and save in your STUDENT (H:) DRIVE
DAY 2
You and your team will create a presentation to share your new animal using any approved presentation tools provided by the teacher. This presentation will be shown to your classmates. Wee will in-turn, vote on the best futuristic animal.
Click HERE for a Quizlet that has many of the terms from this unit of study. You teacher may give you a list of which ones to concentrate on for this project or test.
You and your team will create a presentation to share your new animal using any approved presentation tools provided by the teacher. This presentation will be shown to your classmates. Wee will in-turn, vote on the best futuristic animal.
Click HERE for a Quizlet that has many of the terms from this unit of study. You teacher may give you a list of which ones to concentrate on for this project or test.