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- 4th - 6th
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Students become familiar with crabs, shrimps, lobsters, barnacles, and spiders. They distinguish between which anthropoids live on land and which live on water. The activities in this lesson are designed for pre and post visits to an aquarium. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students read and discuss a section of text on vertebrates and invertebrates. They, in groups, sort pictures of animals into vertebrate and invertebrate groups and then verify their grouping using an encyclopedia. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students collect and analyze data to determine that the majority of animals are invertebrates. They calculate percentages using the collected data from the St. Louis Zoo. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students explore the question, "What types of adaptations do invertebrates need to live in a methane hydrate habitat?" They design an invertebrate or vertebrate capable of living in a methane hydrate ecosystem. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students investigate invertebrates. Using computer technology, students copy pictures and place them in a word-processing document. They create a fact sheet with a picture and present an oral presentation. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students brainstorm to find the meaning to the terms vertebrate and invertebrate. They use ideas in order to progress to the investigation. They feel their own backbones in order to bring context to the lesson. Students answer questions about why animals are put into different categories. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students identify the characteristics common to all animals. In groups, they compare the characteristics between the animals and how they are divided. To end the lesson, they compare the eight phyla of invertebrates and review the difference between vascular and non-vascular plants. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students compare and contrast the body plans of jellyfish and horseshoe crabs to develop of concept of radial and bilateral symmetry. They view and discuss a video showing both invertebrates than go outside to look for other examples of symmetry in animals and plants they encounter. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students identify between different sorts of animal systems. They identify the difference between a vertebrate and invertebrate. Students review animal systems and review vertebrates and invertebrates. They are asked: Why is it important to know what the systems inside us do? Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 10th
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Students review invertebrate body plan, symmetry, feeding, respiratory, circulatory, excretory, nervous response, movement, reproduction, and ecology of Invertebrates. They compare and contrast invertebrate characteristics. Students play Biology Jeopardy Game. Full Review »
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