Showing posts with label Chondrichthyes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chondrichthyes. Show all posts

Friday, January 18, 2013

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.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Chordates - Vertebrata - Chondrichthyes - Elasmobranchii - Rajiformes

How the sawfish uses its saw 
Wild Kingdom - Manta Ray Secrets Revealed
Stingray

Rays by Martha E.H. Rustad
Rays: Animals with an Electric Charge by Andreu Llamas and Gabriel Casadevall/Ali Garousi
World of Animals: Fish: Rays, Chimaeras, and Eels by David Alderton

Vocabulary Added:
rajiformes: ray-form
pristiformes: saw-form
torpedo: sting ray

Activity:
Draw and label parts of a ray, sawfish
Skate dissection.  Buy a skate wing.  Cook it.  Learn about cartilage.
Add rajiforms, pristiforms to Animal Kingdom tree

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Chordates - Vertebrata - Chondrichthyes - Elasmobranchii - Squaliformes, Squatiformes, Pristiophoriformes

BBC: Perfect Shark - Cookie Cutter Shark
Angel Shark Birth - Deep Sea World

Sharks and Rays: Underwater Predators by Sharon Sharth
World of Animals: Fish: Rays, Chimaeras, and Eels by David Alderton

Vocabulary Added:
squaliform: pale-form
squatiniform: flat shark-form
pristiophoriform: saw-form

Activity:
Draw and label parts of two favorite sharks
Add squaliforms, squatiniforms, and pristiophoriforms to Animal Kingdom tree

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Chordates - Vertebrata - Chondrichthyes - Elasmobranchii - Orectolobiformes, Carchariniformes, Lamniformes

Whale Shark
Shark Weekend: Great Hammerhead
BBC Planet Earth Series - Shark Attack Segment HD

Great White Sharks by John F. Prevost
Hungry, Hungry Sharks by Joanna Cole
Little Shark by Anna Rockwell and Megan Halsey
Sharks and Rays: Underwater Predators by Sharon Sharth

Vocabulary Added:
chondrichthyes: cartilage-fish
elasmobranch: thin plate-throat
orectolobus: stretched-lobe 
carchariniform: sharp-form
lamniform: monster-form

Activity:
Draw and label parts of 2 sharks of choice
Add chondrichthyes, elasmobranchs, and orectolobus, carchariniforms, and lamniforms to Animal Kingdom tree