Chordates - Review

Watch any films the student particularly enjoyed during the invertebrates unit.
Re-read any books the student particularly enjoyed during the unit.

Activities:
(over the course of five days)

1. What is the difference between a chordate and a vertebrate? 
2. How are sand dollars like sting rays?
3. Why is the coelacanth important?
4. Name three causes of extinction.
5. Why are pterosaurs and elasmosaurs not dinosaurs?
6. How do amphibians breathe? 
7. Why is a penguin not a ratite?
8. Name two places with unique mammal groups (Madagascar, Australia)
9. Why is a whale an ungulate?
10. [On a piece of paper, recreate the chordate branch up through Aves with the meanings of the scientific names.] Student pastes the correct scientific designations over the meanings, gives examples of each kind of animal.
11. [On a piece of paper, recreate the Aves branch with the meanings of the scientific names.] Student pastes the correct scientific designations over the meanings, gives examples of each kind of animal.
12. [On a piece of paper, recreate the Mammalia branch with the meanings of the scientific names.] Student pastes the correct scientific designations over the meanings, gives examples of each kind of animal.

Choradates - Vertebrata - Actinopterygii - Neopterygii - Teleostei - Euteleostei

Life - Flying Fish Fly | Fish
Swimming Ocean Sunfish
Endangered Sea Horses - Oceans - BBC
River Monsters - Lassoing an electric eel

Eyewitness Fish by Steve Parker
World of Animals: Fish: Spiny-Finned Fish 2 by John Dawes
Flying Fish by Kris Hirschmann
Barracudas by Colleen Sexton
Sea Horses by Elaine Landau

Activity:
Field Trip to the National Aquarium
Draw any euteleosteiian fish (mola mola, sea horse, flying fish)

Choradates - Vertebrata - Actinopterygii - Neopterygii - Teleostei - Euteleostei

Piranhas Attack - BBC
Oarfish - Sea serpent
Anglerfish of the abyss

Fabulous Fishes by Susan Stockdale
Fishes by Melissa Stewart
About Fish by Cathryn Sill and John Sill
World of Animals: Fish: Piranhas, Guppies, and Allies by John Dawes

Vocabulary Added:
euteleosteii: good-complete-bone

Activity:
Fish dissection.  Go fishing or buy a whole fish.  Take it apart and examine it.  Cook and eat.
Draw any euteleosteian fish (piranha, oarfish)
Add euteleosteii to Animal Kingdom tree

Chordates - Vertebrata - Actinopterygii - Neopterygii - Teleosteii - Elopomorpha

Gulper eel
Moray Eels -Reel Life of the Andaman - Part 7

World of Animals: Fish: Rays, Chimaeras, and Eels by David Alderton

Vocabulary Added:
elopomorpha: snake-form
leptocephalus: thin-head

Activity:
Draw and label parts of a favorite eel (moray eel)
Add elopomorpha to Animal Kingdom tree

Chordates - Vertebrata - Actinopterygii - Neopterygii - Teleosteii

(elephant-trunk fish, arowana, butterfly fish, aba aba)

World of Animals: Fish: Primitive Fish by John Dawes
World of Animals: Fish: Rays, Chimaeras, and Eels by David Alderton

Vocabulary Added:
neopterygii: new-wing
teleosteii: total-bone

Activity:
Draw and label 2 favorite fish (aba aba, butterfly fish, arowana)
Add neopterygii and teleosteii to Animal Kingdom tree

Chordates - Vertebrata - Actinopterygii - Acipenseriformes

Paddlefish (2)
Lake Sturgeon

World of Animals: Fish: Primitive Fish by John Dawes

Vocabulary Added:
actinopterygii: ray-fin
acipenseriformes: sturgeon-forms

Activity:
Draw and label parts of a paddlefish and sturgeon
I suppose if you're rich you could buy caviar for your kids to try...
Add actinopterygii and acipenseriforms to Animal Kingdom tree