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Unit 2 Diversity of Living Things
Chapter 11 Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles
Section 1 Chordates and Section 2 Fish
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Teacher Resources Student Extra Credit
11-1 What Is a Vertebrate? |
11-2 Fishes |
Day 1 Fish Notebook |
Day 10 Eyewitness Video Sharks
Questions Sharks Eyewitness Video |
Day 2 Draw
a Goldfish Prentice Hall 368-371 RSG 11-1 Vertebrates |
Day 11 Read Sharks by Kira
Freed Complete
Shark Questions |
Day 3 Evaluate Fish Drawing Goldfish Drawing Labeling RSG 11-2 Fish |
Day 12 Shark Internal & External
Worksheet |
| Day 6
Eyewitness Fish Eyewitness Video
Questions FISH |
Day 14-15 Goldfish Respiration
Experiment Student Page |
| Day 17 Make A Fish Make A 3-D Fish |
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| Day 7 Internal
Biological Drawing of a Fish |
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| Topic Fish Note Book | ||||||||||||
| Objectives Define what a chordate is. Define notochord. Name three chordate features. Infer that the endoskeleton protects the organs of the body. Identify a lancelet as a chordate. Identify humans as Chordates. |
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| State Goals 12.A.1a Identify and describe the component parts of living things and their major functions. |
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Classwork-Homework Fish
Notebook  Make a 7-8 page booklet in the shape of a fish. Kids will record notebookpaper information in their fish books.  On the
BoardTopics Cover-title and name 1. Chordates, Endoskeletons, Lancelet 2. Fish Characteristics & Fish Classes 3. Jawless Fish & Lamprey and Hagfish 4. Cartilaganeous Fish 5. Bony Fish 6. Vocabulary
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Resources Chordate Characteristics Journey North Creature
Quiz Student Answer
Sheet Journry North
Answers |
| Day 2 |
| Topic 10-2 Fish |
| Objectives Draw a goldfish. Read for information. |
| State Goals 12.A.1a Identify and describe the component parts of living things and their major functions. |
| Classwork-Homework Draw a Goldfish Get a fish Use a magnifying glass and and draw what you see. Draw as many characteristics as you can see. Prentice Hall 368-371 |
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| Topic External Diagram of Goldfish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Objectives Discuss how fish are adapted for life in water. Explore how the shape of a fish helps it move. Label the external parts of a fish. |
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On the Board
Vocabulary Ectotherm: animal whose body temperature changes with its environment; cold-blooded Gill: organ that absorbs dissolved oxygen from water Cartliage: tough, flexible connective tissue Swim Bladder: organ of a fish that allows the fish to remain at a specific depth in the water
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| Day 4 |
| Topic Characteristics of fish |
| Objectives Identify the external characteristics of fish. Use a rubric to evaluate fish diagrams. |
| State Goals 12.A.1a Identify and describe the component parts of living things and their major functions. |
| Classwork-Homework Evaluate
External View of Fish Use the rubric handed out yesterday, pass back, and record grades.
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| TEC Fishes Science Explorer page 317 Depth Adjustment by Fishes Science Explorer page 318 |
| Resources |
| Day 5 |
| Topic Live Fish Observation |
| Objectives Observe a live fish. Determine the respiration rate of a goldfish. |
| State Goals 12.A.1a Identify and describe the component parts of living things and their major functions. 13.A.1c Explain how knowledge can be gained by careful observation. |
| Classwork-Homework Live Fish Observation |
| TEC |
| Resources Observing Fish
Behavior reference pages for lab |
| Day 6 |
| Topic Fish Eyewitness Video |
| Objectives Evaluate knowledge of fish using a video quiz. |
| State Goals 12.A.1a Identify and describe the component parts of living things and their major functions. 13.A.1c Explain how knowledge can be gained by careful observation. |
| Classwork-Homework Eyewitness Fish Eyewitness Video Questions FISH
Quiz on external view tomorrow. |
| TEC |
| Resources A Salmon's Life Cycle |
| Day 7 |
| Topic Internal view of a fish. |
| Objectives Evaluate knowledge of external view of fish. Color the organs of the internal view of a fish. Label a diagram. |
| State Goals 12.A.1a Identify and describe the component parts of living things and their major functions. 13.A.1c Explain how knowledge can be gained by careful observation. |
| Classwork-Homework Pass
out rubric for internal view of fish and go
over.
Quiz on external view of fish. Work on
Internal View of Fish |
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| Resources |
| Day 8 |
| Topic Internal Drawing of Fish |
| Objectives Identify the Internal characteristics of fish. |
| State Goals 12.A.1a Identify and describe the component parts of living things and their major functions. 13.A.1c Explain how knowledge can be gained by careful observation. |
Classwork-Homework Finish
Internal Biological Drawing of a Fish Extra Credit
Fish Word Search. |
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| Day 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Topic Jawless fish. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Objectives Name the three classes of fish. Name a fish from each class of fish. Name the internal organs of a fish. Evaluate a biological drawing using a rubric. Name two Jawless fish. List the characteristics of Jawless fish. |
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| State Goals 12.A.1b Categorize living organisms using a variety of observable features. |
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Classwork-Homework
Evaluate internal view of fish using rubric . 3 Classes of Fish
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| Resources Picture of early Jawless fish Sea Lamprey |
| Day |
| Topic Fish Dissection |
| Objectives Name external and internal parts of a fish and identify their functions. Explain how fish are specially designed for their environment. Contrast and compare a fish's body parts to a human's. |
| State Goals 12.A.1a Identify and describe the component parts of living things and their major functions. |
| Classwork-Homework |
| TEC Perch Dissection |
| Resources Getting Into a Fish
Name external and internal parts of a fish and identify their functions. I used these
directions for fish dissection for the first time. I used small perch and it
worked out well. Mexican Gray Perch Dissection |
| Day 10 | ||||||||
| Topic Sharks | ||||||||
| Objectives Introduction to sharks Name three cartilaginous fish. List characteristics of cartilaginous fish |
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| State Goals 12.A.1a Identify and describe the component parts of living things and their major functions. |
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Classwork-Homework
On the Board
Cartilaginous Fish: Chondrichthyes
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| ResourcesShark Coloring
Page Color the picture and identify the sharks by writing their names on
the back. Can you find their scientific names? From the Monterey Bay Aquarium. |
| Day 11 |
| Topic Sharks |
| Objectives Read about sharks. Read for information. Label a shark. List shark products. |
| State Goals 12.A.1a Identify and describe the component parts of living things and their major functions. |
| Classwork-Homework Read Sharks by Kira
Freed Print out the book and make copies for kids. Complete Shark Questions
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| Resources Shark Puzzle |
| Day 12 |
| Topic Shark Diagrams |
| Objectives Use a dichotomous key to identify sharks Identify sharks by common name. |
| State Goals 12.A.1a Identify and describe the component parts of living things and their major functions. |
| Classwork-Homework Shark Information
Catching a shark story. Shark Internal & External WorksheetShark ID Based on Name That Fish a shark family name activity. Found at Sea World for Teachers I use common names of sharks instead of family names. |
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| Topic Bony Fish information. | |||||||||||||||
| Objective Name three bony fish. List the characteristics of bony fish. List examples of Osteichthyes (Bony fish). |
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| State Goals 12.A.1b Categorize living organisms using a variety of observable features. |
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Classwork-Homework On the
Board Bony Fish Characteristics
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| Resources Bony Fish Information
Fish Information |
| Day 14 |
| Topic Goldfish Respiration Experiment |
| Objective Use a thermometer. Compare the respiration rate of goldfish at different temperatures. Record data, observations, and compile data. |
| State Goals 13.B.1a Explain the use of common scientific instruments. 11.A.3a Formulate hypotheses that can be tested by collecting data. 11.A.3b Conduct scientific experiments that control all but one variable. 11.A.2c Construct charts and visualizations to display data. 11.A.3d Explain the existence of unexpected results in a data set. 11.A.2d Use data to produce reasonable explanations.. 11.A.3f Interpret and represent results of anaylisis to produce findings. 11.A.2e Report and display the results of individual and group investigations. |
Classwork-Homework Fish Respiration Information  Goldfish Respiration Experiment Student Page
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| Resources Fish Respiration Diagram of gill |
| Day 15 |
| Topic Goldfish Respiration |
| Objectives Analyze data from an experiment. |
| State Goals 11.A.3f Interpret and represent results of anaylisis to produce findings. 11.A.2e Report and display the results of individual and group investigations. |
| Classwork-Homework |
| TEC |
| Resources |
| Day 16 |
| Topic Goldfish Respiration |
| Objectives Complete scientific investigation |
| State Goals 11.A.2e Report and display the results of individual and group investigations. |
| Classwork-Homework Put papers of experiment in
correct order
Goldfish Respiration Experiment Questions
Make an A-Z Chart of Cartilaginous and Bony fish. |
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| Resources |
| Day 17 |
| Topic Make a Fish Day 1 |
| Objectives Research a fish. Analyze the structure and function of fish mouths and caudal fins. Write a report about a fish. Create a model of your fish. |
| State Goals 12.A.1a Identify and describe the component parts of living things and their major functions. |
| Classwork-Homework Make A Fish 1. I use Enchanted Learning Fish for information. 2. Students choose a fish and get picture and the information. 3. HW Find any information about your fish and bring to class. 4. Use Make A Fish to record information to questions. 5. Prepare a report to read to the class about your fish.
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| Day 18 |
| Topic Make a Fish Day Day 2 |
| Objectives Draw a fish |
| State Goals 12.A.1a Identify and describe the component parts of living things and their major functions. |
| Classwork-Homework Finish:
Make A Fish |
| TEC |
| Resources |
| Day 19 |
| Topic Fish Report |
| Objectives To speak in front of class. Learn facts about different fish. |
| State Goals 12.A.1a Identify and describe the component parts of living things and their major functions. |
| Classwork-Homework Tell
class about your fish |
| TEC |
| Resources |
Previous: Echinoderms Next: Amphibians
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| ANIMALS |
| Animal Brochure |
| Animal Coloring Book
National geographic |
| Animal Group Names A brood
of hens, a company of parrots. |
 Animals
A-Z Good site with lots of information including classification |
| AQUARIUMS |
 Setting Up a Classroom
Aquarium |
| BONY FISH |
| A Salmon's Life Cycle |
| Bony Fish Anatomy and
Physiology Sea World Info Book.
Information on the skeletal, muscular, nervous, cardiovascular, digestive, and respiratory
systems of bony fish |
| Bony Fish Classification
The scientific classification of Osteichthyes. |
| Bony Fish Information |
| Gray's Reef Fish
Species List Gray's Reef is one of the largest near shore live-bottom
reefs of the southeastern United States. The sanctuary is located 32 kilometers (17.5
nautical miles) off Sapelo Island, Georgia and encompasses 58 square kilometers (17 sq.
nautical miles) of live-bottom habitat. |
 Bony Fish Senses
Information on hearing, eyesight, taste, smell, and electrorception |
| Coelacanth The Fish Out
of Time A 400 million year old "living fossil," swims on.
Pre-dating the dinosaurs by millions of years and once thought to have gone extinct with
them 65 million years ago, the Coelacanth was "discovered" alive and well in
1938 |
| Fish
Information A good site with lots of information |
| Moray Eel
Student created on-line report about the Moray Eel |
| Queensland Lungfish
Unlike most lungfish the Queensland has only one lung |
| CHORDATES |
| Chordate Characteristics |
| DISSECTION |
| Getting Into a Fish |
| Mexican Gray Perch Dissection |
| Perch Dissection
Questions and drawings to create and label. |
| EVOLUTION OF FISH |
| Early
Ostracoderms Picture and scale diagram |
| Fish
Evolution The first fishes, and indeed the first vertebrates, were the ostracoderms,
which appeared in the Cambrian Period, about 510 million years ago, and became extinct at
the end of the Devonian, about 350 million years ago. |
| Ostracoderm: The First
Vertebrates |
| FINDING NEMO |
| Finding
Nemo Worksheet #1 Easier |
| Finding
Nemo Worksheet #2 Harder |
| FISH |
| Anatomy of a Fish |
| Eyewitness Video
Questions FISH |
| Fish in the Seine
Lewis and Clark story and fish ID |
| Name that Fish
Use key to identify families and label the pictures. |
| Fish Art Lesson |
| Live Fish Observation |
| Make
A Fish |
| Fish
Diseases |
| FISHING |
| Fisheries
Historical Information The Nation's first Federal conservation agency,
initiated in 1871, was devoted to the protection, study, management, and restoration of
fish. This agency was the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, which was
usually just called the Fish Commission. |
| FISH RESPIRATION |
| Goldfish Respiration Experiment |
| Fish Respiration An excellent description of respiration in fish, including the anatomy of
the fish gills, and countercurrent flow. |
| How Do Fish Breathe?
How in the heck can a fish, which is underwater, breathe if there is no air? |
| JAWLESS FISH: AGNATHA: Lampreys & Hagfish |
| Picture
of early Jawless Fish |
| Sea Lamprey |
| Hagfish
Hagfish have not changed for the last couple of million of years |
| Hagfishes
Chordate biology: Phylum: Chordta Class Agnatha. This site has more information on
hagfish than any other site. |
| Hyperoartia
Lampreys are anadromous or fresh water, eel-shaped Go ogle fishes. They can be readily
recognized by the large, rounded sucker which surrounds their mouth and by their single
"nostril" on the top of their head. |
| Introduction to
Petromyzomtiformes There are 50 species of lamprey found in
temperate rivers and costal seas. |
| Lamprey
Introduced into the Great lakes in 1829, the lamprey is a parasite
that attaches itself to other fish. |
| Sea Lamprey Fish Tank
Photos and images of lampreys. Click on a thumbnail to enlarge. |
| KEYS & GUIDES |
| Classification Key of
Freshwater Bony Fish A good on-line key with orders and common names
included. |
| Fish of Aquatic Illinois
Information and pictures of largemouth bass, channel catfish, blue gill, sturgeon, and
muskie. |
| Fossil Shark Teeth
Recent Shark Teeth |
| MEGALADON |
| Carcharodon
versus Carcharocles: What's in a Name? |
| Could
Megaladon Looked Liked a Big Sand Shark? |
| Does
Megaldon Still Live? |
| Extinction
of Megaladon |
| Megaladon:
Enchanted Learning |
| Origin of
Megaladon |
| Reconstructing
Megaladon |
| ON LINE LEARNING |
| Biology of Sharks and Rays From Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center This course requires registration and it does cost. |
| SALMON |
| Salmon Page Dedicated to
all things salmon: How to catch them, cook them, buy them and save them. |
| Sock-Eye Salmon Life Cycle |
| SHARKS |
| Sharks by Kira
Freed Read the book and complete Shark Questions |
 Sharks Baltimore National
Aquarium |
| How to Draw Sharks |
 Slideshow:
Chondrichtyhyes |
| Primitive Sharks |
| Shark Classification |
| Shark Clip-Art
14 shark pictures |
| Shark Information |
| Sharks: Science Weekly |
| All About Sharks
General information on sharks, information on shark species, shark attacks, shark stories,
the real jaws, and diving with sharks. |
| Earliest Sharks:
Devonian Ancient Sharks
Golden Age of
Sharks Origin of
Modern Sharks: Jurassic |
| Fiona's Shark
Mania Shark news, shark art, shark graphics, true stories about sharks,
shark clip-art, shark links, and sharks in literature. |
| Search for
Ancient Sharks A Live Quest by the American Museum of Natural
History. View the Prehistoric Shark Gallery and Tour the Ancient Seas and learn
about creatures that lived during the Devonian period -- some 350
million years ago -- at about the same time as Pucapampella, the mysterious little
shark that scientists are looking for in the Falklands. |
| Shark Week
2000 Try the Shark Quiz. Learn about a shark's life. Go
looking for the Basking shark. Visit the 3-D shark tank and read shark
stories. A Discovery Channel site. |
| Sharks
The National Aquarium in Baltimore's site for sharks. |
| Summer
of the Shark Why can't we be friends? A horrific attack raises old
fears, but new research is revealing surprising keys about shark behavior. Times
news article with links to shark topics. |
| Zoom
Sharks An Enchanted Learning site with information all about sharks,
shark anatomy, shark info sheets, shark printouts, shark classification, shark
orders, and shark species. This is your first stop to learn about sharks. |
| STINGRAYS |
| Zoom Rays An Enchanted learning site with information on ray size, body shape, varieties, skeleton, diet and hunting, intelligence, habitat, swimming, defense, reproduction, and classification. |
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| Coral Reef Fish
Coloring Page Color the picture correctly and
identify the coral reef fish by writing their names on the back. Can you find their
scientific names? From the Monterey
Bay Aquarium. |
| Fish
Questions, Chart, and Graph Tough Assignment. You have to research
the answers. Neat graph on water depth and number of fish eggs hatched. Print
out the four pages and give it a try. |
| How Many
Salmon? Many hazards stand between a salmon egg and adulthood. Sometimes
these hazards are natural, and sometimes they come from people. To learn more about the
risky life of a salmon, complete this story by filling in the blanks. |
| Leafy Sea
Dragon Coloring Page Color the picture and locate information about this
fish. |
| Missouri River Adopt-A-Fish
You'll be tracking your adopted fish throughout the spring as they make their annual
spawning runs up the Missouri. We'll update their positions once a week and give you
insights on some of the things that biologists noticed about their movements. |
| Moray Eel
Coloring page Color the picture and locate information about eels.
Write at least ten facts about eels on the back of your picture. |
| Shark & Fish Coloring Diagram comparison Marine
Biology Coloring Book |
| Shark Coloring
Page Color the picture and identify the sharks by writing their names on
the back. Can you find their scientific names? From the Monterey Bay Aquarium. |
| Shark Puzzle |
| Shark Week
2000 OnLine Crossword Puzzle A difficult crossword puzzle about
sharks similar to one you would find in a newspaper. Do it on line and print it
out. |
| Where in the
World Scavenger Hunt Use the World Map to
record where the animals live. |
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