 Activities
 Investigations
 Art
 Resources
 Web Sites |
| ADAPTATION |
| Adaptations in Dinosaurs Pages 31-32 In Caution Animals Ahead |
| Adaptation of the Human
Hand |
| Seasonal Adaptation Chart
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| Adaptation
Index: Transformation Over Many Lifetimes |
| Animal
Adaptation: WebQuest Use the
links below to learn more about your role. Specifically, look for answers to the following
questions: How do animals adapt to the places they live? Give three examples of how
an animal adapted to its conditions. Make up 1 - 3 rules about how animals
adapt. A Great Web Site !!! |
| The A-Z of Camels Domesticated thousands of
years ago by frankincense traders, who trained the gangly cud-chewer to make the long and
arduous journey from southern Arabia to the northern regions of the Middle East, the camel
went on to become the desert dweller's primary source of transport, shade, milk, meat,
wool and hides. |
| Winter Adaptations of
Animals |
| CONSUMERS |
| Nutrition
Identify animals as herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore by the type of teeth and
pattern they have. |
| Wildlife Skull Activities
A few relatively simple observations of an animal’s skull can tell us what the animal
ate, whether the animal was predator or prey, and which senses were most important to the
animal’s survival. |
| FOOD CHAINS & WEBS |
| Build a Bermudian Coral
Food Pyramid Students will be able to construct a pyramid of numbers using data
from a Bermudian coral reef. |
| Food Chain
Mania |
| Food
Webs and Trophic Levels |
| Who Am I?
Students work together to determine the role of ocean producers and consumers within the
ocean food chain. |
| Who Eats Whom In a
Bermudian Coral Reef Students will be able to find out about feeding
relationships on a coral reef and develop a food chain and food web using coral
reef animals and plants. |
| Food
Chains/ Nutrition Pupil Factsheet |
| The
Food Chain What is the
difference between the 'Food Chain' and 'Food Web?' A popular
misnomer, the 'food chain' is not actually a linear chain but a complex web. Energy
is passed from one organism to another in a complex network like a spider's web. |
| ENDANGERED SPECIES |
| Endangered Species: Fish and Wildlife Service Attention, Junior Fish and
Wildlife Biologists! Where can you find information on endangered and threatened
species? What can you and your school do to help save them? Why should people care about
endangered and threatened species anyway? Where can you get educational materials that
help to explain the issues behind why animals and plants become endangered? Right here,
Junior Biologists . . . you've arrived at Kid's Information Central! |
| Endangered Species:
Wildlife Facts Protecting
endangered and threatened species and restoring them to a secure status in the wild is a
key objective of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. They have information on threatened
and endangered wildlife and plants. |
| POPULATION |
| Population
Clock Check
out the popualtion of the world and the United States. The populations displayed on
the clock are not intended to imply that the population of the world is known to the last
person. Rather, the clock is our estimate of the world population size and an indication
of how fast it is growing. |
| U.S. Census Bureau What is the
population of the United States? Check out all of the sources from the 2000 Census. |
| PREDATOR & PREY |
| Lynx & Hare
Population Chart and Lynx & Hare Graph & Questions |
| Predator
and Prey Learn about animal preadators and their prey. A Web Project by
Second Graders at the Beswick Academy. |
| SUCCESSION |
| Forest
Life Cycle Timeline |
| How a Field Becomes a Forest How is it
that barren farm land was able to become the forests of today? The answer lies in a
process known as "succession," a natural pattern of ecosystem change that takes
place over time. |
| WATER CYCLE |
| Water Cycle in a 2-Liter Bottle All of the earth's water goes
through a cycle in which the water changes its location or physical state through
different processes. In accordance with the law of conservation of matter, water is not
created or destroyed it just changes form. Water can be found in all three states of
matter during the cycle: solid (ice caps), liquid (lakes) and gas (water vapor). Use
two 2-Liter bottles to create your own water cycle. Neat activity!! |
| The Watershed Game Many things happen in a
watershed that affect the quality of the water we rely upon. What are they? Would
you make the best decisions in managing your watershed? Examine the issues in each
area of the watershed, then see the impacts of your choices! |
| What Do You Know About Water |
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Vocabulary
Globe
Fearon 12-1 What are producers and consumers? pp.
278-279
Producers,
Consumers, and Decomposers 
Rachel Carson
grew up with an appreciation of the countryside in Springdale, PA. While attending
college, Rachel Carson studied English and biology which gave her the skills she needed to
eloquently express her concerns about the environment in her best-selling book Silent
Spring . Read 
