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Unit 2 Diversity of Life
Chapter 12 Birds and Mammals
Section 3 Mammals
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Mammal Units
Bats Whales Orangutans
Teacher Resources Student Extra Credit
| 12-3 Mammals | |
Characteristics of Mammals |
Placental Mammal Orders |
Day 1
Mammals: Eyewitness Video |
Day 3
Animal
Groups Matching |
Day 2 Prentice
Hall 420-425 RSG 12-3 Mammals |
Day 7
Family Password |
Day 10 Tricky Tracks |
| Day 1 |
| Topic Introduction to Mammals |
| Objectives/ I can ... |
| State Goals |
| Classwork-Homework
Mammals: Eyewitness Video |
| TEC |
Resources Be an Expert: Mammal Study |
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| Topic 12-3 Mammals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Objectives/ I can ... Describe the characteristics of mammals. List the three classes of mammals. List the ten orders of mammals. Recognize that mammals are endotherms. Describe the diversity of adaptations that are found in mammals. Explain that mammals produce milk, which is food for their young. Make models to show how fat keeps a mammal warm. |
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| Classwork-Homework Mammal Foldable Book Page Titles: Characteristics of Mammals Mammal Groups Monotremes Marsupials Placental Mammal Order Amazing Mammals  Characteristics of MammalsWarm-blooded Body hair 4 chambered heart Highly developed brain and nervous system Mammary glands Mammal
Groups Classified by the way they reproduce Monotremes (egg-laying) Marsupials (pouched) Placental (develop more fully within the female) Mammal
Group Examples
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Resources Mammal Information: SmithLifeScience |
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| Topic Mammal Milk & Gestation Periods | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Classwork-Homework Nutritional Content of Milk
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| Topic Mammal Characteristics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Objectives/ I can ... Identify ten placental mammal orders. Compare mammal sizes and skills. Describe three mammal record holders. |
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Classwork-Homework Mammal
Orders
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| Resources Animal Group Terms |
| Day |
| Topic Animal Teeth |
| Objectives/ I can ... Introduce terms, herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore. Explain the different types of teeth and their function. Examine teeth and predict the type of diest the animal would eat. |
| State Goals |
| Classwork-Homework Wildlife Skull Activities
Use as introduction. Three animal skulls to identify and discuss. Nutrition
Identify animals as herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore by: a. the type of teeth b. pattern the teeth have. |
| TEC |
| Resources |
| Day 6 |
| Topic Prehistoric Mammals |
| Objectives/ I can ... Describe several prehistoric mammals. Compare prehistoric mammals with their modern relatives. |
| State Goals |
Classwork-Homework Correct
Mammal Characteristics & Correction
Mammals, Past and Present Naturescope Amazing Mammals Part 1 Pages 16-18, 22-24, and 68 Kids need 22-24, and 68. |
| TEC |
Resources Prehistoric MammalsMoeritherium |
| Day 7 | ||||||||||||||||
| Topic Game about mammal life | ||||||||||||||||
| Objectives/ I can ... Compare the family life of several mammals. Describe several ways mammal babies differ. |
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| Classwork-Homework
Family Password Naturescope Amazing mammals Part1 page 31-32 a. Write animal names on board
b. Use Password Clues p.32 |
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| Resources |
| Day 8 | ||||||||||
| Topic Horns & Antlers | ||||||||||
| Objectives/ I can ... Describe the difference between horns and antlers. Define grazer and browser. Explain some of the ways mammals use their horns and antlers. |
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| Classwork-Homework
Horns and Antlers Naturescope Amazing Mammals Part 2 page 30-32
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| Resources |
| Day 9 |
| Topic Bats and Rodents |
| Objectives/ I can ... Discuss bat trivia. Give an example of a rodent. Describe where rodents live and how it is adapted to its habitat. |
| State Goals |
| Classwork-Homework
A Bat Like That Naturescope Amazing Mammals Part 2 pages 36, 37, and 42 a. Handout What Do You Know About Bats Answer: All, Some, or None black or brown warm-blooded larger than a mouse eat insects hang upside down make sounds people can't hear eat fish orange walk on the ground suck blood swim hibernate cold-blooded migrate nest in people's hair active at night spread rabies make sounds people can hear live more than 30 years eat fruit b. Pass out page 42 and go over the questions and answers. (page 37) c. Go back to the list and check to see how many each group got correct.
Great Rodent Expedition Naturescope Amazing mammals Part 2 p.49-50, & 52 a. Pass out page 52 b. Use the clues on page 50 and start by giving the first table a clue. c. If their correct, they earn as many points as there are clues. Wrong..go to next table. d. Continue for all the animals. |
| TEC |
| Resources |
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| Topic Tricky Tracks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Objectives/ I can ... Identify mammal tracks. Solve snowy track mysteries. |
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Classwork-Homework
On the BoardMammal Walking plantigrade: flatfooted; whole foot, from toe to heel, rests on the ground; Bears, gibbons, and humans digitigrade: toe walkers; Cats, dogs, wolves, foxes ungulates: toenail walkers TOES ON ANIMALS
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| Resources Discovering
Dinosaurs Dinosaur
Footprints What
Happened Here? Animals Don't
Cover Their Tracks Forest Carnivore Track Guide |
| Day 11 |
| Topic Animal Embryos |
| Objectives/ I can ... Recognize how the development of mammals differs from that of other animals. |
| State Goals |
| Classwork-Homework
On the Board Egg: female reproductive cell Sperm: male reproductive cell Fertilization: joining of the nuclei of the male and female reproductive cells Gestation: time it takes an embryo to fully develop inside its mother's body |
| TEC |
| Resources |
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| ARMADILLOS |
 Armadillo Art Project
Use a milk carton and a brown paper sack |
| BATS |
| Indiana
Bats: An Endangered Species 157 pages 20 activities |
| Bats Bat
Anatomy and adaptation. |
| Bat WebQuest
Print out and use this bat worksheet as
you go to bat sites research information. |
| Echo the Bat Read the
story about Echo. |
 What's Your Batting Average?: What
Do You Know About Bats |
| BEARS |
| Bear
Fingerprints Worksheet |
| Going
on a Bear Hunt There are eight kinds of bears found throughout the
world. You are going to select one kind of bear and learn all about it. Use
this worksheet
for your answers. |
| Polar Bear Fact Sheet
A fact sheet lists important information without the use of paragraphs and long
explanations. Use the topics and the Web addresses at the bottom of the worksheet to
create your own polar bear fact sheet. |
| Bears, Bears, Bears |
| Bears in Trouble |
| Giant Panda Giant
pandas are black and white bears that live in temperate-zone bamboo forests in central
China. Among the best recognized—but rarest—animals in the world, they have come
to symbolize endangered species and conservation efforts. |
| Grizzly Bear Facts
The brown bear (known as the grizzly in the Lower 48 states) is a large predator
distinguished from black bears by a distinctive hump on the shoulders, a dished profile to
the face, and long claws about the length of a human finger. |
| Polar Bear Facts |
| Three Bear Face Off
Students play a game to familiarize themselves with the similarities and
differences between three different kinds of bears. Black, grizzly, and polar. |
| What Makes a Bear a Bear?
Comparison of the Florida Panther and the Florida Black Bear. Comparison of their
skulls. Bear skeleton. Fact sheets on both. Make a bear skull. |
| BEAVER |
| Giant
Beaver:Castorides |
| BUFFALO |
| Bison Evolution
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| Buffalo History |
| Buffalo Stories
authentic stories |
| Buy a Buffalo $600 |
| Steppe Bison |
| Steppe Bison 2 |
| CAMEL |
| A-Z of Camels |
| Camelops hesternus Picture |
| Western Camel |
| CHEETAH |
| Cheetah Coloring Book |
| CHIMPANZEE |
| Chimpanzee
Fact Sheet |
| DEER |
| Megaloceros
"Irish Elk" 7 feet tall |
| Megaloceros Fact
File Megaceros (=Megaloceros) giganteus (meaning
"gigantic large horn"), is the prehistoric Irish elk (more closely related to
the fallow deer than the elk). It was the biggest deer that ever lived; it was over 10
feet (3 m) tall and had enormous antlers 11 feet (3.3 m) across (the largest of any deer).
These antlers were shed yearly. Megaceros dates from the late Pleistocene (from 1.5
million to 2,500 years ago). Large herds of these mammals lived
in what is now Europe and western Asia. It was preyed upon by giant cats and wolves and it
was hunted by early humans. Class Mammalia, order Artiodactyla, family Cervidae. |
| DOGS |
| Evolution of the Dog 40 mya to
present |
| Virtual
Dog If you don't take care of this dog he doesn't die, he runs away |
| ELEPHANT |
| Elephant Panorama
to cut out for a diorama or a picture project. |
| Elephant Anatomy
Internal organs of a female African elephant. |
| All About Elephants |
| Early
Elephants Were Amphibious |
| Elephant Evolution 50 mya to
present |
| Primelephus
The first elephant |
| GIRAFE |
| Evolution of the Giraffe Neck
via Sexual Selection |
| The Girafe's Short Neck |
| GORILLA |
| From the Teeth of the Dragon |
| Gigantopethicus
Gigantopithecus was the largest primate that ever walked the Earth. He would
have risen 9 to 10 feet high if he choose to stand up on only his hind legs, and probably
weighed about 600 lbs |
| GROUNDHOGS |
| Map Reading Use Map Questions and the official Groundhog Day Festivities Map to answer
the questions. |
| Read a Table Use
the Groundhog Day Predictions
table, a record of the history of Phil's predictions to answer Groundhog Predictions Table Questions. |
| Project Groundhog Day Keep track of
temperature and weather for 6 weeks after Groundhog's Day Teacher Resources for
Project Student
Weather Charts |
| Groundhog's Day Activities |
| Punxsutawney Phil's Story
The story offers many interesting details about the history of this world-renown, annual
media event that each year draws thousands of people to Punxsutawney. |
| Groundhogs at Hoghaven |
| Official Groudhog's Day Web Site |
| HORSE |
| Dawn Horse |
| Evolution of the Horse
Hyracotherium, Mesohippus, Merrychippus, Pliohippus, Equus Religious disagreement with the evolution of the horse. |
| Hyracotherium This small dog-sized animal represents the oldest
known horse. Hyracotherium is better known as "eohippus" - which means
"the dawn horse." The name also refers to the fact that it lived
during the Eocene. |
| Hyracotherium
and other Fossil Horses Clickable skull diagram |
| Hyracotherium Facts First true
horse. |
| KANGAROOS |
| Ancient
Kangaroo Lived: 1,600,000 - 40,000 years ago (Pleistocene) |
| Procoptodon
goliah |
| MAMMALS |
| Animal Report Use this form as
an aid to help you make a report on a mammal. Be sure to include a picture of your
mammal. |
| Animal Specific
Vocabulary What's the group called? What is the name for the male or
female? What are their babies called? Do some research and fill in the chart. |
| Mammal Orders Choose
the animal that doesn't belong with the other two and identify the order by description. |
| Mammals Order Chart
Print out the chart. Identify the order the animal belongs to. List the
characteristics or traits that put it in this group. Name other members of the
order. |
| North
Woods Mammal Coloring Book |
| Animal Group Terms |
| Mammal Information: Mr & Mrs Smith's Life Science
Our page about mammals. |
| Marine Mammal Pictures
Historic National Marine Fisheries. Neat Old Pictures of Sea Lions, Sea Cows,
Whales, and Seals |
| Animal Information Database
If you need quick information and facts about animals, this Sea World site is the place to
go! |
| Ice Age
Mammals During the last Ice Age, there were many
large, interesting mammals, like the saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths, mastodons,
and mammoths. |
| Mammals of Aquatic
Illinois Illinois Department of Conservation site. |
| Mammilia
A University of Michigan web site. Includes characteristics and list of orders of
mammals. |
| UCMP Hall of Mammals
Those hairy, milk-producing, warm-blooded animals that you have seen all of your life are
mammals. A University of California Museum
of Paleontology site. |
| Wild About Illinois Organisms
and Ecosystems Click on an animal to learn about it. |
| Wild About Mammals
Links to different mammals from the Illinois Department of Conservation site. |
| MAMMOTH |
| How to Draw a Mammoth page 7 |
| Origin
and Evolution of Mammoths |
| MANATEE |
| Manatees and Dugoongs Kids Only
Coloring Book |
| Manatee Lap Book |
| Manatees an Educator's Guide
Manatees are found in shallow, slow-moving rivers, bays, estuaries, and coastal water
ecosystems. They can live in fresh, brackish, or salt water. These habitats provide them
with sheltered living and breeding areas, a steady, easily obtainable food supply, and
warm water - all of which manatees need to survive. |
| Fossil Sea Cow |
| Introduction to Sirenia |
| Manatee 13
feet and 3000 pounds. |
| Manatee Adaptations
At this web site you will discover how long a manatee can stay under water without taking
a breath and how much time elapses between breaths when a manatee is resting. |
| Manatee: Trichechus manatus
Massive, torpedo-shaped, nearly hairless aquatic mammal. |
| Manatees Sea Cows,
Dugoongs, and Manatee information. |
| Order Sirenia |
| West Indian Manatee
Can you imagine how the skin of a manatee would feel? Why is keeping warm a big problem
for these animals? Read this web page to discover the answer to these questions and learn
many other interesting facts. This page includes graphics and a map showing where manatees
live. |
| West Indian Manatee
Why do you think manatees are sometimes called sea cows? How do manatees
escape from danger? Why does it take so long for the manatee population to increase?
Discover what happens to manatees in waters with temperatures less than 60 degrees. Look
for answers to these and other questions on this web page. |
| West Indian Manatee Sirenian
International |
| MARSUPIALS |
| Opossum The opossum is
North America's only marsupial. |
| Wallaroo Large,
stocky, powerfully-built rock kangaroo. Wallaroos are distinguished from other
kangaroos by their bare, black snout. |
| MOUNTAIN LIONS |
| Mountain Lions On the Move
Description, Habits, Habitats, and Links |
| OREODONTS |
| White Springs
Oreodont Sheep-like animal in western US 35-25 mya |
| PIGS |
| Warthogs and some related species |
| PINNIPEDS |
| Seals and Sea Lions |
| PRIMATES |
| Primate Key |
| African Primates See
and hear information on chimpanzees, gorillas, and monkeys. |
| Gorilla Foundation-Koko's Kid Club Welcome
to The Gorilla Foundation's web site made especially for kids! Here you will find all
kinds of interesting facts about Koko and her pals - Michael and Ndume - and how you can
help their gorilla friends who live in the wild. |
| Life of Mountain Gorillas
The two main species of gorillas are the eastern gorilla and the western gorilla.
The mountain gorilla is a subspecies of the eastern gorilla. For more information
about their lives , check out this site. |
| QUIZZES & TESTS |
 Wolf Test |
| RHINOCEROUS |
| Balucatherium Gigantic
hornless rhino 20-30 mya |
| Indricotherium |
| Indricotherium:
The Beast of Buluchistan |
| SKELETON |
| Observing Vertebrate
Skeletons 6 Page activity. Use a human skeleton to label vertebrate skeletons |
| SLOTHS |
| Brown-Throated
Three-Toed Sloth Biogeography |
| Giant
Sloth North Dakota 11,000 years ago |
| Megathirium |
| TIGERS |
| Ancient Cats
Picture Poleiarius |
| Fossil Cats of
Arizona |
| Prehistoric Cats |
| Tigers |
| TRACKS |
| Discovering
Dinosaurs Dinosaur
Footprints What
Happened Here? |
| Animals Don't
Cover Their Tracks |
| Forest
Carnivore Track Guide |
| WEBQUESTS |
| Prisoner
or Protected? A web quest exploring the humanity of zoos. |
| WOLVES |
| DOL Daily Oral Language for
Wolves |
| What is the Value of Wolves Article about
wolve reintroduction into Yellowstone Park |
| Gray Wolves, Gray
Matter An OnLine learning
environment where students examine real-world evidence and analyze current scientific
controversies. Bring in any of the projects that you complete. You do have to
register to participate in this class. It's Fun!!!! I tried it and I
think you'll like it. You will also find links to other OnLine Learning classes
here. |
| Scientific
Classification of Wolves |
| Wolf Basics FAQ How big
are wolves? How many pups do they have? How many species are there? |
| Wolf Facts |
| Wolf Families |
| Wolves
and Me Scat pictures, Wolf Play 67 pages |
| Wolves At Our Door
Information on Gray, Red, and White (Arctic) Teacher Resources
DOL |
| Gray Wolf |
| Gray Wolf Time
Line 1630-2004 |
| Red Wolf Time Line
1768-2004 |
| Wolf
Predation on Ungulates (Hoofed Mammals) Each wolf in Minnesota eats 15-20 deer a
year. |
 Mammal
Extra Credit |
| Animal
Characteristics |
| Animal
Report Use this form as an aid to help you make a report on a
mammal. Be sure to include a picture of your mammal. |
| Animals Scavenger
Hunt Use the links at this site to answer the questions. Print out
this worksheet
for your answers. Neat activity! |
| Animal Specific
Vocabulary What's the group called? What is the name for the male or
female? What are their babies called? Do some research and fill in the chart. |
| Bat WebQuest
Print out and use this bat worksheet as
you go to bat sites research information. |
| Going
on a Bear Hunt There are eight kinds of bears found throughout the
world. You are going to select one kind of bear and learn all about it. Use
this worksheet
for your answers. |
| Mammal Orders Choose
the animal that doesn't belong with the other two and identify the order by description. |
| Mammals Order Chart
Print out the chart. Identify the order the animal belongs to. List the
characteristics or traits that put it in this group. Name other members of the
order. |
| Polar Bear Fact Sheet
A fact sheet lists important information without the use of paragraphs and long
explanations. Use the topics and the Web addresses at the bottom of the worksheet to
create your own polar bear fact sheet. |
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