| Big Ideas: Reptiles and Birds / Mammals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Essential Questions: What defines a reptile? What defines a bird? What defines a mammal? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vocabulary: reptile, bird, lizards, snakes, turtles, tuataras, pelicans, parrots, herons, mammal, placental, marsupial, monotremes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Month | Content | Skills | Asessment | Standards | Instructional Activities, Strat |
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| May-June | Reptiles and Birds: | Formative: | Formal Indiana State Core Standards Are Not Available | Provide Topic Reading Assignments and Vocabulary List | |||||||||||||||||||||
| * Introduction (Definition and Evolution) | Dissect a turtle to expose tissues and organs for study | Student Partipiation and Dialog | Deliver Information via Lecture, Discussion and Handouts | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| * Forms and Functions (Temperature, Feeding, Respiration, Circulation, Excretion, Response, Reproduction) | Dissect a pigeon to expose tissues and organs for study | Study Guide Assignments | However, Some Related State Standards Associated with General Biology Could Apply | Use Technology (ie Simulations/Illustrations/Videos), Various Manipulatives and Word Play | |||||||||||||||||||||
| * Groups of Reptiles (Lizards, Snakes, Crocodilians, Turtles/Tortoises, Tuataras) | Lab Practicles and/or Projects | Offer Review Opportunities (Study Guides and Study Sessions) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| * Groups/Types of Birds (Pelicans, Birds of Prey, Parrots, Cavity-Nesting, Perching, Herons, Flightless Birds) | Chapter Quizzes | Visit:https://www.in.gov/doe/students/indiana-academic-standards/science-and-computer-science/ | Supplement Topic Discussion with Labs/Projects/Demonstrations | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reading / Vocabulary Exam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vertebrate Chordates: Mammals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| * Introduction (Definition and Evolution) | Simulate blubber which helps to explain endothermic characteristics of mammals | Summative: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| * Forms and Functions (Temperature, Feeding, Respiration, Circulation, Excretion, Response, Reproduction) | Compare and contrast different hair follicles from various mammals under the microscope | Chapter Exam | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| * Groups of Mammals (Placental Marsupial and Monotremes) | Provide visual evidence of the emulsification properties of soap and provide evidence that milk contains fat | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| View and hypothesis what type of mammal was regurgitated by a raptor in order to study | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Visit (www.rm118.com) for Further Details and Information with Regards to the Curriculum | skeletal and anatomical features of mammals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||