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Chapter 1 How Plants Live Life Science Chapter 1
How Plants Live and
Grow Identify the part that belongs to a specific plant or
animal.Identify the part that is missing from a specific plant or animal. Identify the function of specific plant or animal parts. Select the illustration that shows how an organism changes as it matures. Interdependence - Food Web Challenge http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/10_11/interdependence.shtml Learn about ourselves movie http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/ourselves.shtml Exploring Parts of a Plant For teachers - printable versions of plant diagrams http://abcteach.com/directory/theme_units/science/plants/ Experiment with seed growth and root systems: http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/living/livact3.html Virtual Cell http://www.life.uiuc.edu/plantbio/cell/ Cell Structure and Processes http://www.tvdsb.on.ca/westmin/science/sbi3a1/cells/cells.htm The Great Plant Escape (Activity) http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/ Help Detective LePlant and his buddies Bud and Sprout solve and of 6 mysteries in "The Great Plant Escape". Many helpful links here. (The University of Illinois Extension) (English/Spanish) : http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/gpe.html Observing Fruits and Seeds How fruits and seeds make it into our back yard. After looking at this site, see how many you can find in your backyard. http://www.backyardnature.net/ecotravl.htm Investigating Light and Plant Growth Why do leaves change color in the fall? http://photoscience.la.asu.edu/photosyn/education/colorchange.html How Do Plants Grow from Seeds? In Search of Green Life (Activity) http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/case1/case1.html Living Things http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/ "Cells Alive" - An colorful display of plant, animal, and bacterial cells. This site has cell parts well described and easy to see. http://www.cellsalive.com/toc.htm Web Quests Insects and Minibeasts: A Virtual Field Trip http://www.field-trips.org/sci/minibeast/index.htm Distinguish between living and non living things in an illustration. Select the plants and animals found in a specific environment. Identify the sense used to collect specific information. Identify the environment that has been impacted by pollutants. How Do Spiders and Insects Grow? Master Bug Theater by the Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/kids/BUGTHTR.HTM The Wonderful World of Insects Home page from Earth-LifeWeb Productions http://www.growinglifestyle.com/us/h/pest/insect/index.html This sites leads you to hundreds of different types of spiders and bugs. http://www.growinglifestyle.com/us/h/pest/insect/index.html Observing the Life Cycle of a Beetle 440 articles about different types of beetles http://nysipm.cornell.edu/publications/grubs/default.asp?metatags_Action=Find('PID','5') A great site from Cornell University in New York State includes videos, virtual labs, biodiversity http://explore.cornell.edu/scene.cfm?scene=Beetle%20Science Flash cards on "How Plants Live and Change". http://flashcardexchange.com/card_set.php?id=245162 How Do Fishes, Frogs, and Mammals Grow? Mammals 6 characteristics easily explained on this sites from Earth Life Web Productions http://www.earthlife.net/mammals/mammal.html How Do Babies Learn? 1 page of easy reading entitled "Building Baby's Brain", sponsored by the University of Georgia http://www.fcs.uga.edu/pubs/current/FACS03-6.html What is a Micro-organism? http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/10_11/micro_organisms.shtml Identify the basic needs of plants and animals. Recognize that animals obtain their food by eating plants or other animals. Recognize that plants use sunlight, water, and air for photosynthesis. Identify an organism that belongs in a specific environment. Identify the characteristics that enable a specific plant and/or animal to survive in its environment. Environment, Diversity, Plate Tectonics, for teachers and students from the Center for Educational Technologies from Wheeling Jesuit University. http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/natural.html Where Pond Snails Live "All About Snails" page for kids and teachers. http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Snails/ Where Do Organisms Live? Meet Herman the Worm! http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/worms/ Life Science Safari http://vilenski.org/science/safari/ How does water move through leaves? Unlock the amazing mysteries of plant life http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/ Aquatic Safari http://www.seaworld.org/wild-world/safari/virtual-aquarium/index.htm How Do Organisms Get Food? Where do bugs get their food? http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/ythfacts/entyouth.htm How Do Organisms Live Together? Tour a virtual pond and see what things are living and working together! http://www.uen.org/utahlink/pond/virtpond2.cgi View flash cards of vocabulary for this chapter http://flashcardexchange.com/card_set.php?id=219420 Matching game for this chapter from Quia http://www.quia.com/mc/252729.html Identify an example, other than a dinosaur, of an extinct organism. Identify evidence used to determine that an organism previously existed. Exploring Habitats What is the Natural Environment? http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/natural.html Temperate Forest Biome Field Trip http://www.field-trips.org/sci/forest/index.htm Desert Field Trip http://www.field-trips.org/sci/desert/index.htm Tour of Biomes http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/biomes.html Ecosystems http://library.thinkquest.org/11353/ecosystems.htm http://mbgnet.mobot.org/index2.htm Tropical Rain forest Unit Site has useful links about the rain forest and three students activities to be printed. http://users.erols.com/allnutt/tropical.html Desert Life in the American Southwest http://www.desertusa.com/life.html Lesson 1 - How Can Environments Change? History of Environmental Changes http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/environment/changes.htm Lesson 2 - How Do Changes Affect Living Things? So What's the Big Deal - Global Warming http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/kids/bigdeal.html Lesson 3 - How Do People Affect Plants and Animals? Air quality index site for kids http://www.epa.gov/airnow/aqikids/ "How Stuff Works" on Ozone Pollution http://science.howstuffworks.com/ozone-pollution.htm Cleaning Polluted Water http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/gsteps.asp What Does the Environment Provide for People? Environmental Protection Agency: Drinking Water for Kids Page: High Ability Learners could give this word scramble to younger students exploring how much water we use for certain tasks: http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/kids/scram.html Classroom activities and experiments from the EPA Grades K-6 and 7-12 http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/kids/exper.html | ||
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Chapter 1 - Matter and How It
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Select an object according to a particular
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1 - What Are Objects Made Of?Order objects according to a specific property. Identify an object given its properties. Identify appropriate tools for determining the weight or length of materials. Identify the effects of mixing two types of materials. Choose features associated with physical changes. Identify methods for separating mixtures. Exploring Properties of Matter http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/static.html Lesson 2 - What Are Physical Changes? http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/sciber00/8th/matter/sciber/change.htm Reversible and Irreversible Changes http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/10_11/rev_irrev_changes.shtml Lesson 3 - What Are Chemical Change http://www.chem4kids.com/files/matter_intro.html Here is a chemical activity that can be done guided by teachers or parents: http://www.iit.edu/~smile/ch9604.html Identify that an unbalanced force is needed to change the direction of an object. Select how surface characteristics affect the movement of an object. Select an object that would be attracted by a magnet. Identify how weights affect a balanced scale. Forces in Action Challenge http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/10_11/forces_action.shtml Identifying Cause and Effect: Newton's Three Laws of Motion http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newton3laws.html Lesson 1 -What Makes Things Move? How do roller coasters work? http://stuffo.howstuffworks.com/roller-coaster.htm Lesson 2 - What Are Gravity and Magnetism? http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/space-environment/1-what-is-gravity.html Lesson 3 - How Do Simple Machines Help You Do Work? Information about simple machines and an activity http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/InventorsToolbox.html Identify the source of the Earth's heat and light energy. Identify the illustration that demonstrates the effects of the sun on various materials. Identify how sounds are produced. Exploring Forms of Energy http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/textbook/energy.html An upper level easily understood pdf file displaying the 2 categories of energy: http://www.need.org/needpdf/FormsofEnergy.pdfMeasuring%20Temperature Lesson 1 - What Are Some Forms of Energy? Changing Circuits http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/10_11/changing_circuits.shtml Energy Kid's Page with games, history, and classroom activities http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/ Lesson 2 - How Is Matter Heated? http://www.laporte.isd.esc4.net/Campuses/lpe/Staff/clarkc/4th%20Grade%20TEKS%20%2847A%29heat%20and%20matter.htm Gas molecules in motion: http://id.mind.net/~zona/mstm/physics/mechanics/energy/heatAndTemperature/gasMoleculeMotion/gasMoleculeMotion.html http://id.mind.net/~zona/mstm/physics/mechanics/energy/heatAndTemperature/heatAndTemperature.html Investigate: Making a Thermometer This experiment must be performed with adult supervision http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/Experiment9.htm Lesson 4 - What Is Electricity? Follow this link for word puzzles, interesting facts, and more. http://school.discovery.com/curriculumcenter/electricity/wordplay.html Static: http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/static.html Read about Ben Franklin, lightning, and lightning bells http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/scientst/electric.html This online activity helps students better understand activity: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/science/physical/11_act.shtml Investigate: Making An Electric Circuit On-line http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/elect/ Lesson 1 - How is Sound Made Explore: Sound waves and take a mini-quiz at the end of this online lesson. http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/sound.htm Investigate: Changing Pitch Learn more about pitch and frequency and take mini-quiz http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/sound/u11l2a.html Lesson 2 - How Does Sound Travel? Online experiment: http://www.iit.edu/~smile/ph9110.html Investigate: Listening to Sound Through Matter Sound and the Sea: http://www.dosits.org/science/sndmoves/1.htm Twp hand's on activities for sound travel at this site along with describing the Sofar channel http://www.dosits.org/science/sndmoves/1.htm Lesson 3 - How Do Living Things Make and Use Sound? This is an interactive site from thanks to a number of schools and large businesses such as IBM. http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sound/
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Chapter 1 - Changes in the Earth's
Surface Identify the labeled part of a map or illustration as a
continent, ocean, lake river, mountain, or island.Select the illustration that identifies a specific geological feature. Identify a geological feature given specific information. Explore: Rocks Formed from Molten Rock http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/sciber00/8th/earth/sciber/rocks2.htm Building Model Volcanoes http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_models/models.html Life Along the Faultline http://www.exploratorium.edu/faultline/ Rocks and Minerals Word Search and Crossword http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/rocks-ws.htm http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/rocks-cw.htm Lesson 1 - How Do Volcanoes and Earthquakes Change the Earth? Volcano World for Kids http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/kids/kids.html 101 Frequently Asked Questions of a Volcanologist http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/ask_a.html Volcano Math http://Schoolcentral.com/schcenfiles/baker1b.htm Volcanoes On-line http://library.thinkquest.org/17457/ Lesson 2 - What Landforms Are on the Earth's Surface? Earthforce http://sln.fi.edu/earth/earth.html Color Landform Maps of the United States http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html Investigate: Making a Model of a Landform How to make modeling clay for a landform map http://www.pioneerthinking.com/modelingclay.html Making a Landform Map (Look at "Teacher's Tips" for good ideas.) Creating A Topographical Map for Any City or Town http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/ Lesson 3 - How Do Water and Wind Change the Earth's Surface? "Who Controls the Climate?" click on beginner for easy to read info. http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/climate/cli_controls.html http://www.usgs.gov/education/index.html Lesson 4 - How Can Living Things Affect the Earth's Surface? NASA Site with information about the atmosphere, earth, land, heat and energy and more... http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/ Extra Information: All About Glaciers http://nsidc.org/glaciers/ Identify an object as natural or man-made. Recognize the properties used to identify specific earth materials. Identify methods for conserving natural resources. Explore: Properties of Rocks http://www.mhhe.com/earthsci/geology/mcconnell/demo/prop.htm FEMA for Kids The Disaster Area http://www.fema.gov/kids/dizarea.html How are Rocks Formed? http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/fellows/brannon/webquest/Rmform.htm LINK="#0000ff"> Website for Types of rock
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Lesson 1 - What Materials Come From the Earth? Materials from the Asheville/Buncombe County Area: http://www.geology.enr.state.nc.us/proj_earth/MATERIALS.htm Composition of the Earth: http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/plate/composition.html Lesson 2 - What is Soil? "What on Earth is Soil?" Environmental Protection Agency-Gulf of Mexico Program http://www.epa.gov/gmpo/edresources/soil.html Lesson 3 - How Can We Protect Natural Resources? Tennessee's Wildlife Resources Agency http://www.state.tn.us/twra/ Lesson 4 - Experiment: Soils and Water Irrigation: Soils and Water Vary http://www.cvwd.org/lush&eff/lsh&ef4.htm How Soils Hold Water: An Experiment with Paper Towels http://sis.prosser.wsu.edu/pdf/WINLJul99.pdf Choose the appropriate tool for observing a specific distant object. Identify the the components of the solar system (e.g. planets, moon). Identify objects found in the day or nighttime sky. Identify the approximate time of day from a picture of the sun's position in the sky. Identify the four basic phases of the moon. Explore: Size and Distance of Earth and Sun http://www.freemars.org/jeff/planets/Luna/Luna.htm Size and Distance of Planets Experiment with Planet Cut-outs Provided! Lesson 1 - What Are the Sun and Planets Like? http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/jupiter/ Investigate: Observing Shadows Caused by Sunlight "Exploring Earth: What Time Is It?" http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es0405/es0405page04.cfm Lesson 2 - How Does the Sun Affect Earth? Investigate: Modeling the Moon's Motion and Light Energy Administration Info Kid's page: Energy Facts, History, Fun and Games http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/ Lesson 3 - How Does the Moon Move? 86 FAQ About the Moon http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/amoonm.html Lesson 4 - How Do Scientists Learn About the Sun, Moon, and Planets? NASA: Moons Past, Present, and Future with video stream http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/Anniversary_VisMar/index_noaccess.html Chapter 4 - Clouds and
Storms Select appropriate clothing for a given weather
condition.Match the cloud type to a specific kind of weather. Identify the season when given a description of weather, plants, and animals. Match temperature, precipitaion, wind speed and direction, and cloud conditions wiht different weather. Identify the appropriate tools to measure temperature and precipitation. Lesson 1 - What Are Clouds? http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/cloudsform.htm http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/articlearchives/weather/clouds.htm Investigate: Clouds and Weather Lesson 2 - What Happens to Water in Clouds? time-lapse picture http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es1803/es1803page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization s1803page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization Investigate: Making a Model tornado "The Tornado Project Online" http://www.tornadoproject.com/ Lesson 3 - What Causes Storms? National Weather Service: great storm pictures and explanations http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/NWSTornado/ | ||
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Chapter 1 - The Body's
Systems Explore: BalanceUsing Graphic Sources Lesson 1 - What Parts Make Up Your Body? http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0774536.htmll Lesson 2 - How Do Bones and Muscles Work? A site for students to learn and a quiz at the end. http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/amcgann/body/ Investigate: Modeling How Muscles Work Lesson 3 - What Are Some Other Body Systems? "How the Nervous System reacts with other systems of the body" -a Neuroscience for Kids site: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/organ.html Investigate: Observing Your Nervous System in Action Explore the brain and spinal cord: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/introb.html Interactive Wordsearch on the Autonomic Word System: "How the Nervous System reacts with other systems of the body" -a Neuroscience for Kids site: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/organ.html Explore: Food Choices A Topic Quest called: "Healthy Eating From the Four Food Groups" http://chiron.valdosta.edu/djudd/jhrhyner2.html Lesson 1 - What Are Some Ways to Stay Healthy? Energy Food Charts/Calories http://www.healthyeatingclub.com/info/books-phds/books/foodfacts/html/data/data2a.html Investigate: Testing Foods for Fat Lesson 2 - What Are Germs? Lesson 3 - How Do Some Substances Affect the Body? Experiment: Conducting a Sleep Survey Old websites to use: Meal worms (Activity) http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=3022 Worm World (Activity) http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/anatomy/anatact2.html Insecta Inspecta World http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/ | ||
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http://www.field-trips.org/sci/endanger/index.htm Endangered and Extinct Species http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/enexpg.htm Protecting Endangered Species http://www.epa.gov/espp/poster/ | ||
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Living Things #64424 |
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10.2.a Go to Worm World and follow
the instructions to create your own worm world. Keep a journal of
the process and your observations. 10.2.b Go to "Origami of Living Animals" and select an animal from the list. Follow the instructions to create an origami of the animal selected. |
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10.3.a Go to "Animal Skull Collection" and select two skull types from each of the six categories listed. Make a chart to compare the similarities and differences in the skulls selected. Which categories are have the most in common? Which have the least in common? |
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10.4.a Go to "A Day in the Life of an Insect" link above. Chose one of the insects and find out about the life of the insect. Create a story about the a day in the life of that insect. Add a picture or pictures to your story and publish it for others to read. |
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10.5.a Select an animal on the endangered species list. (Some are listed at the "Protecting Endangered Species" link above.) Find out about the animal and the threats to its survival. Create a poster to promote the protection of that animal. Share the poster with your teacher and classmates. |
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10.7.a Go to "In Search of Green Life" and solve the mystery. |
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10.8.a Go to the "Insects and Minibeasts: A Virtual Field Trip" and experience a virtual field trip about a variety of insects. |
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11.1.a Go to "Pulse of the Planet: Natural Radio." Listen to Earth's magnetic field as it is undergoing abnormal movement caused by effects on the sun. | ||
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11.4.a Research the pull of gravity on Earth and on another planet. Make a drawing, diagram, or graph to compare the two. | ||
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11.6.a Pretend that you are traveling
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11.7.a Go to "Planet Tac Toe"
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Rocking Our World #67067 |
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12.2.a Go to the "Paper Volcano" link
above. Follow the instructions to make your own paper
volcano. 12.2.b Go to the "Life Along the Faultline" link above and select the "Activities" link. Complete one of the activities and report back to the class. (Recommended activity - Become a Human Seismometer) |
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12.3.a Go to the "Volcano Math" link above and do Volcano Math to see a volcano erupt. |
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12.4.a Go to the "Rocks and Minerals Word Search and Crossword" link above and complete each activity. |
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12.5.a Go to the "Building Model Volcanoes" site above and select one of the methods to build your own volcano. Share the finished product with your class. |
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12.8.a Gather several different rocks. Make a comparison chart describing the similarities and differences. Research to identify what type of rocks each one is. |
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13.1.a Find the words to the song "John Henry." Teach your classmates how to sing the song or ask the teacher to teach them. |
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13.2.a Would you like to build an elevator for rats? If so, go to the web site "Simple Machines" and follow the instructions. |
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13.4.a Go to the "Simple Machines" web quest. Create a science notebook and include information about each of the machines mentioned in the web quest. Make sure your descriptions are accurate and that you include examples and pictures of each. |
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13.5.a Create a diagram of a new compound machine made from at least two of the simple machines mentioned in the "Simple Machines" web quest. Give your new machine a name and be sure to describe its possible uses. |
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Rain forest Exploration #72776 Water Cycle Unit #65148 |
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14.1.a Go to "Salmon Music" to hear some fishy music about salmon, whales and seals. |
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14.2.a Use any of the links above, other links, or information from the library to find out about one of the biomes. Create a model of that biome. Be sure to include details that are specific to that biome. |
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14.3.a Go to the "Tropical Rain forest Unit" link above. Print out and complete the "Monkey Math" activity. |
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14.4.a Go to the "Life Cycles of Animals" link above. Use the resources provided to complete the chart and diagram (printed from the site). Finally, write a paragraph about the two life cycles that are the most similar. |
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14.5.a Go to the "Tour of Biomes" link above and explore the different biomes. Select one biome and create a poster about it. Be sure to include information about natural features, climate, and plant and animal life. You might also include a world map showing where the biome can be found. |
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14.6.a Imagine you and your friends are plants or animals living in one of the biomes. Write and act out a short skit about life in that biome. Make sure to include information that lets the audience know what makes that biome important to you and to others. |
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14.7.a Pretend that you can go anywhere on earth. Choose the place you would like to go. Create a journal as though you were in that place. Describe the place and why you would went there. Tell as much as you can about the natural environment. |
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14.8.a Take the "Temperate Forest Biome Field Trip" and the "Desert Biome Field Trip." Write a journal entry or create a chart or graph showing the similarities and differences in the two biomes. |