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22 resources with the concept endoskeletons

When Fish Wore Armor Video

When Fish Wore Armor

10 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Today very few animals exist with both an endoskeleton and exoskeleton. Yet, in the Devonian period, a large number of fish species lived with both. Scientists debate if they were for protection or mineral storage, because none of them...
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Space, Gravity, and the Human Body
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Space, Gravity, and the Human Body

5th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
What happens to the human skeleton when it has been in space for an extended time? What does a reduced-gravity environment do to our bodies? Can we learn about our own skeletons by taking apart a chicken carcass? Explore the concepts of space and human physiology through a series of labs, lessons, and research in these 10 resources. Pick and choose or do all of them!
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The Skeletal System: It's ALIVE! Video

The Skeletal System: It's ALIVE!

13 mins 9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
What is the differences between exo and endoskeletons? Viewers have an opportunity to see the structure inside our bones and explore bone remodeling with a video about cartilage and bone formation in the human body. 
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Phylum Chordata Presentation

Phylum Chordata

7th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Help young biologists find their place in the animal kingdom with a life science presentation on the phylum chordata. Over the course of 54 slides, your class will dive deeper and deeper into the hierarchy of biological classification,...
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Skeletal Structures Lesson Plan
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Skeletal Structures

5th - 8th
What better way to study the structures of organisms than by creating a new being? After considering different types of skeletal supports (exoskeleton and endoskeleton), budding biogeneticists work together to create their own animals -...
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The Skeleton Lesson Plan
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The Skeleton

5th - 8th
Don't be chicken to try a lesson plan that compares the anatomy of birds to humans. Read the background information so you don't have to wing it when it comes to the anatomy of a chicken. Prepare cooked chicken bones by soaking them in a...
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Invertebrate Diversity Worksheet

Invertebrate Diversity

6th - 12th
Comparative anatomy prevails in the lesson exploring diversity among invertebrates. Biologists examine physical characteristics of an earthworm from phylum annelida and a meal worm from phylum insecta. They also inspect a cricket and a...
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Structure and Function of Vertebrates - Reading/Notetaking Guide - What is a Vertebrate? Graphic Organizer

Structure and Function of Vertebrates - Reading/Notetaking Guide - What is a Vertebrate?

7th - 12th
A sequence map on the evolutionary development of vertebrates, a concept map on the endoskeleton, and several other questions about vertebrate adaptations are arranged on three pages for young biologists to complete. This can be used as...
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About: Invertebrates Presentation

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About: Invertebrates

9th - 12th
Not everything you want to teach about invertebrates is included in this PowerPoint, but everything you may want to teach about fish is. Details, details, details! After a brief introduction to phylum Chordata, junior icthyologists learn...
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What's the Difference? Lesson Plan

What's the Difference?

7th - 12th
Learners analyze the similarities in different species. This lesson plan is part of a multi-segmented unit on the diversity of life. In this segment, students classify shoes to mimic the scientific categories of the classification system.
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Animal Life Stages Worksheet

Animal Life Stages

9th - 12th
Guide your young scientists in reviewing basic animal processes including digestion and reproduction. Students review the stages of metamorphosis and the different types of body symmetry. This worksheet has 8 matching, 6 true or false, 4...
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What is a Vertebrate? Worksheet

What is a Vertebrate?

5th - 6th
For this what is a vertebrate worksheet, students fill in the blank with information about the characteristics of chordates. Students also answer short answer questions about the characteristics of vertebrates and fish.
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What is an Animal? Worksheet

What is an Animal?

9th - 12th
In this animal worksheet, learners review various characteristics that are associated with animals including body plan and skeletal structure. This worksheet has 11 fill in the blank questions.
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Body Plans and Adaptations Worksheet

Body Plans and Adaptations

9th - 12th
In this body plans and adaptations worksheet, high schoolers will review the different types of symmetry found in organisms. Students will identify body parts as found on either the ventral or dorsal part of an animal. Then high...
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Classification of Living Things Worksheet

Classification of Living Things

9th - 10th
For this biology worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms relating to the classification of living things. There are 28 biology terms located in the word search.
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Goals of the Diversity of Life Unit Lesson Plan

Goals of the Diversity of Life Unit

7th - 12th
Young scholars are introduced to the unit on the importance of diversity of life and the role that interdependence plays in our worlds. this is part of a multi-activity unit on the diversity of life.
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What is Diversity of Life? Lesson Plan

What is Diversity of Life?

7th - 12th
Students are introduced to the variety of organisms in our world. this lesson is a part of a multi-segmented unit on specie diversity. this segment explores distribution of life on land and sea.
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Kingdom Animalia Lesson Plan

Kingdom Animalia

7th - 12th
Students are introduced to the basic characteristics of the animal kingdom. this lesson is part of a multi-segmented unit on the diversity of life. In this segment, students explore the the members of a few phyla of the animal kingdom.
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Tackling Taxonomy Lesson Plan

Tackling Taxonomy

7th - 12th
Students study physical characteristics of separate phyla and place them into similar groups. This lesson is part of a multi-segmented unit on the diversity of life. students develop a classification system by grouping animals into...
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Creative Classification Lesson Plan

Creative Classification

7th - 12th
Students create an animal by using physical characteristics to classify that animal in the Linnaean Classification System. This activity is part of a multi-segmented unit on the diversity of life.
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Missing Links Lesson Plan

Missing Links

7th - 12th
Students change one animal group into another animal group by changing only a few body characteristics. This lesson is part of a multi-segmented unit on the diversity of life. In this session, students the basis of classification.
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Diversity Debate Lesson Plan

Diversity Debate

7th - 12th
Students investigate the importance of dependency and diversity in a rain forest ecosystem. This instructional activity is part of a multi-segmented unit on the diversity of life.
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