Annelida

Leech Doctor
Hydrothermal Vents

Leeches by L. Patricia Kite
Lowdown on Earthworms by Norma Dixon

Vocabulary Added:
annelida: small-ringed

Activity:
Dig for earthworms, make a wormery
"Do earthworms prefer heat or cold?"  From the earthworm experiments lesson plan
Earthworms on the piano - do they like loud noises?
Draw and label an earthworm and a leech
Add annelida to Animal Kingdom tree

Porifera (Sponges)

The wonderful world of sponges - The Abyss (start at 1:05)

Sponges by Mary Logue

Vocabulary Added:
porifera: having-pores

Activity:
Study a filter
Draw and label parts of a sponge
Add porifera to Animal Kingdom tree

Echinoderms - Echinoideans

Six holed keyhole urchin sand dollar burial
Army of Sea Urchins - Planet Earth (start at 1:00)

Starfish, Urchins & Other Echinoderms by Daniel Gilpin

Vocabulary Added:
echinoidea: spine-resembling

Activity:
Draw and label parts of sand dollar and sea urchin
Add echinoidea to Animal Kingdom tree

Echinoderms - Asteroideans and Ophiuroideans

Starfish Dissection
Life - Timelapse of swarming monster worms and sea stars (first minute)

Starfish by Edith Thacher Hurch and Robin Brickman
Starfish, Urchins, & Other Echinoderms by Daniel Gilpin

Vocabulary Added:
echinoderm: spiny-skin
asteroidea: star-resembling ophiuroidea: snake-resembling

Activity:
Draw and label parts of a star fish and brittle sea star
Add asteroidea and ophiuroidea to the Animal Kingdom Tree

Echinoderms - Holothuroidea

World's Weirdest - Sea Cucumber Fights with Guts

Starfish, Urchins & Other Echinoderms by Daniel Gilpin

Vocabulary Added:
holothuroidea: water-polyp-resembling

Activity:
Draw and label parts of sea cucumber
Add holothuroidea to the Animal Kingdom tree

Cnidarians - Anthozoa

The Coral Spawn
Coral Highlights from the Finding Coral Expedition

Coral Sea Dreaming - Awaken (film), first 20 minutes

Reef by Scubazoo
Life in a Coral Reef by Wendy Pfeffer and Steve Jenkins
One Night in the Coral Sea by Sneed B. Collard III and Robin Brickman
Coral Reefs by Gail Gibbons

Vocabulary Added:
anthozoa: flower-animal

Activity:
Make a coral reef collage using bits of paper, lace, string, etc
Draw and label parts of a hard and soft coral
Add coral to Animal Kingdom tree

Cnidarians - Scyphozoa

Picture of a Stinging Nettle
Attack of the Giant Jellyfish!
And jellyfish are born: scyphozoa strobilation

Coral Reefs by Gail Gibbons
Life in a Coral Reef by Wendy Pfeffer

Vocabulary Added:
cnida: nettles
cnidarian: stinging invertebrate
scyphozoa: cup-animal

Activity:
Draw and label one scyphozoan
Add cnidarians branch to Animal Kingdom tree; add scyphozoans to Animal Kingdom tree

Ancient Egypt - Lasting Impact

Look What Came From Egypt by Miles Harvey

Review of vocabulary, maps, religious concepts

Cnidarians - Hydrozoa

Portuguese Man o' War

Floating Jellyfish by Kathleen Martin-James
Reef by Scubazoo

Vocabulary Added:
hydrozoa: water-animal

Activity:
Draw and label one hydrozoan (man o'war)

Ancient Egypt - Daily Life

Valley of the Golden Mummies by Zahi Hawass
Ancient Egypt by Barry J. Kemp, pp. 137-180
Egypt and the Egyptians by Douglas Brewer and Emily Teeter pp 52-83, 125-146
Ancient Egypt (Make it Work!) by Andrew Haslam

Activity:
Choose any activity in Make it Work and do it
Make an ancient Egyptian dessert with figs and honey

Cnidarians - Cubozoa

Super Animals - Super Jellyfish (start at 1:50)
Nature's Perfect Predators - Box Jellyfish (start at :15)

Vocabulary Added:
cubozoa: box-animal

Activity:
Draw and label a box jellyfish
Make a box jellyfish out of a piece of paper
Add cubozoans to the Animal Kingdom tree

Ancient Egypt - Writing

Valley of the Golden Mummies by Zahi Hawass
Curse of the Pharaohs by Zahi Hawass
Ancient Egypt by Barry J. Kemp, pp. 64-107, 261-317
Egypt and the Egyptians by Douglas Brewer and Emily Teeter pp 84-94

Concepts:
Rosetta Stone: stone with writing in three languages; helped decipher hieroglyphics
Thoth: god of writing. "Ibis"

Vocabulary Added:
hieroglyphics: sacred-writing (Egyptian system of writing)

Activity:
Write your name in hieroglyphics
Write a secret message in hieroglyphics or decipher one
Identify sounds in hieroglyphics from picture study

Mollusks - Gastropods

Snail Zombies
Snails, Slugs, and Other Gastropod Mollusks

Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator by Sarah C. Campbell

Vocabulary Added:
gastropod: stomach-foot

Activity:
Build slugs and snails from legos
Draw and label 3 gastropods (snail, slug, limpet)
Add gastropod branch to Animal Kingdom tree

Mollusks - Cephalopods

Cephalopods
Giant Squid Has World's Largest Eye
Mimic Octopus
Shark vs. Octopus

Giant Octopus
Octopuses (which is annoying, because that is not the correct plural)

Vocabulary Added:
cephalopod: head-foot

Activity:
Draw and label 4 cephalopods (squid, octopus, cuttlefish, nautilus)
Add cephalopod branch to Animal Kingdom tree

Ancient Egypt - Buildings and Monuments

Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt
Sid the Science Kid - Inclined Plane song
Inclined Planes
National Geographic: Great Pyramid (film - Netflix)

Building the Great Pyramid by Kevin Jackson and Jonathan Stamp
Pyramid by David Macauly
Pharaoh's Boat by David Weitzman

Activity:
Build a pyramid complex out of blocks
Draw and label how a pyramid is built

Mollusks - Bivalves

Monsters of the Deep
Bivalve Anatomy - Freshwater Mussel

About Mollusks by John and Kathryn Sill
Vocabulary added:
mollusk: soft
bivalve: two-shelled

Activity:
Draw and label parts of two types of bivalves (clam and mussel)
Add bivalves to mollusks on Animal Kingdom Tree

Ancient Egypt - Religion

Egyptian Secrets of the Afterlife (film - Netflix)

Valley of the Golden Mummies by Zahi Hawass
Curse of the Pharaohs by Zahi Hawass
Ancient Egypt by Barry J. Kemp, pp. 64-107, 261-317
Egypt and the Egyptians by Douglas Brewer and Emily Teeter pp 84-94

Concepts:
Osiris: god of the underworld, Isis' husband, first pharoah
Isis: mother-goddess, protector of children, wife of Osiris, mother of Horus.  "Throne"
Horus: god of the sun, son of Isis and Osiris.  "Falcon"
Thoth: god of writing, husband of Maat.  "Ibis"
Maat: goddess of order, wife of Thoth
Anubis: god of mummification. "Jackal"
Ra: god of the sun
Maat's feather: judgment of the dead
Amem: the devouring beast

Vocabulary Added:
mummification: process of creating a dried body wrapped in linen

Activity:
Identify gods/goddesses in picture study
Explain orally Seti's nightly journey through the afterlife

Ancient Egypt - Geography and Chronology

The Golden King by Zahi Hawass
Valley of the Golden Mummies by Zahi Hawass
Curse of the Pharaohs by Zahi Hawass
Ancient Egypt by Barry J. Kemp, pp. 64-107, 261-317
Egypt and the Egyptians by Douglas Brewer and Emily Teeter pp 84-94
The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo and Ruth Heller
Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green

Vocabulary Added:
pharaoh: ruler of egypt

Concepts:
Seasons in Ancient Egypt: flood, growing, drought (akhet, peret, shemu)
Nile River
Upper Egypt (the valley)
Lower Egypt (the delta)
Memphis, Karnak, Amarna, Giza, Thebes, Nubia, Alexandria, Valley of Kings/Queens

Activity:
Identify Egypt on world map
Identify parts of Egypt on small map of northeast Africa/Mediterranean Sea
Recite orally the kingdoms and major accomplishments/characteristics of each
Identify the parts of the Egyptian crown

Animals Unit

Outcomes:
Learn what an animal is
Learn something about how animals are related to each other
Gain a sense of the variety of animals that have existed and continue to exist
Learn something about drivers of evolution (adaptation, environment, catastrophic change, etc)

Deliverables:
Animal Kingdom Tree
Animal Kingdom Notebook

Materials and Supplies:
Colored Pencils
3-hole punched paper
1/2 inch 3-ring notebook
Animals Pictures (every effort has been made to preserve copyright)
Butcher Paper
Markers
(White-Out)
Library Card

Textbooks:
The Variety of Life by Colin Tudge (main teacher reference text)
Encyclopedia of Animals by Karen McGhee and George McKay (National Geographic) (main child reference text)