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)
- What is the difference between a chordate and a vertebrate?
- How are sand dollars like sting rays?
- Why is the coelacanth important?
- Name three causes of extinction.
- Why are pterosaurs and elasmosaurs not dinosaurs?
- How do amphibians breathe?
- Why is a penguin not a ratite?
- Name two places with unique mammal groups (Madagascar, Australia)
- Why is a whale an ungulate?
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
