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Students investigate the role of sponges in our oceans. In this biology activity, students create a diagram visualizing how sponges bring food into their bodies through a filtering process. Students discuss the connections between sponges, coral reefs, fish, and our dietary habits.
Students examine the concept of taxonomy. They research an animal and how they are classified. They present their material to the class using technology. They are to include illustrations with their presentation.
Students take a field trip to the beach and, in groups, collect samples of sea life. They use laptops to classify what they find and develop computer-generated tables and graphs.
Students research sea life using laptop computers. For this sea life lesson, students participate in a field trip to the beach and enter observations into their laptop computers. Students classify shells and sea life.
Students make observations and describe the filter-feeding in sponges as it relates to the ecological role of sponges on coral reefs. In this filter-feeding in reef sponges instructional activity, students are introduced to the feeding methods of multicellular animals called sponges. Students then create a diagram that describes specific observations. Students then watch a video clip of sponge feeding.
Sixth graders examine earthworms and their parts. For this earthworm lesson students complete a lab worksheet on the earthworm and test its response to certain factors.
Students investigate planaria of the phylum platyhelminthes. They use DigiScope technology to observe and describe the structure and movements of planarians.
For this taxonomy worksheet, students come up with the category and then fill out the kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species of the animal.
In this arthropod worksheet, students compare and contrast the different animals found in the Phylum Arthropoda: insects, arachnids, and crustaceans. Students complete 8 fill in the blank statements and color illustrations.
In this Euglena and Spirogyra learning exercise, students read about these two Protozoans and they answer fourteen questions about their specified structures and functions. They color a diagram of Euglena and Spirogyra and label their parts.