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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore a recent salmonella outbreak in young students linked to pet rodents. They create pamphlets to help assist and inform pet owners about the disease and necessary health precautions. Full Review »
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- 4th - 12th
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Students dissect owl pellets to identify rodent skeleton parts and explain the food chain. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students investigate the interdependency of all living things in an ecological system. They reconstruct a rodent and better explain bone structure. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students examine the characteristics of rodents and mammals and differentiate between rats and mice. They read and discuss an informational handout, fill out the worksheet answers together as a class, and complete a worksheet that compares a house mouse and a Norway Rat. Full Review »
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- 4th - 12th
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Students identify a food chain sequence and classify owl pellet parts. Using diagrams, they compare and record to a rodent and human skeletal bones. They construct a rodent skeleton from the parts found in the pellets, noting not all parts might be present. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students are introduced and simple ecosystems. They explore the interdependency of all living things in an ecological system. Students reconstruct a rodent, and look at the bone strucure of the rodent. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students role play the member of a Health Department taskforce. In groups, they develop their own recommendations to control the rodent problem in the area. They email their local government official and research information about the problem of animal population control. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students examine what types of animals carry hantaviruses and determine four ways in which these viruses can be transmitted to humans. They detail the symptoms of HPS and determine how weather affects its spread by completing a simulation activity. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students identify a food chain sequence. They compare, identify, and record the rodent skeletal parts to a rodent skeletal diagram. Students construct a rodent skeleton from the skeletal parts found in the pellet. They are given the materials that they are going to use to complete teh lab. Students work in small groups are given a copy of the human and rodent skeletal system and compare similarities and differences. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students discover a part of the natural food chain through the dissection of owl pellets. They compare, identify, and record rodent skeletal parts they find in the pellet to skeletal diagrams and try to reconstruct a skeleton from the parts found in the pellet. Full Review »