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Structures of Life: Inv 3: Animal Characteristics

Part 1: Hisser Structures

Part 2: Characteristics and Adaptations

Part 3: Group Behavior for Survival

Alternative Resources (ie: Crayfish)

Side Trip 3: Food Chains

Test Prep and Standards

Part 1: Hisser Structures

Part 2: Characteristics and Adaptations

What Are Animal Adaptations?

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What Are Animal Adaptations? (3:31 min)

Adaptations that help animals survive: including camouflage, mimicry, chemical defenses, as well as instinctual and behavioral adaptations.

LaFountaine of Knowledge

Animal Adaptations for Kids

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Animal Adaptations for Kids (8:21 min)

This video explores the different ways that animals can adapt to their environments:

Five Unique Animal Adaptations

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Five Unique Animal Adaptations (6:27 min)

Five unique animals and their adaptations. Including the thorny devil lizard, electric eel, mimic octopus, pistol shrimp, and glass frog.

Arctic Animal Activity

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Arctic Animal Discovery

Find the animals on the landscape to learn more about their adaptations!

National Parks Service

Powersuit Maker Game

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Powersuit Maker Game

Players choose body parts, combining different animal abilities to create a suit that allows the character to explore different habitats.

Can You Find the Hidden Animal?

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Hidden Animals Game (9:04 min)

This game has 16 real-life photographs, each with a hidden animal. You will have 20 seconds to spot the hidden animal.

Kreative Leadership

How to Avoid Being Eaten

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How to Avoid Being Eaten (10:50 min)

What are the tricks that animals use to avoid being eaten? Many animals use camouflage and mimicry to avoid predators
NaturalistOutreach

Part 3: Group Behavior for Survival

Alternative Resources (ie: Crayfish)

Crawfish Facts: aka CRAYFISH facts

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Crawfish Facts: aka CRAYFISH facts (4:02 min)

Crawfish are also known as crayfish, crawdads, craydids, and more! They look like little lobster, but they're not the same.

Animal Fact Files

Animal Adaptation: Is it Crayfish or Crawdad?

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Is it Crayfish or Crawdad? (6:00 min)

Meet a scientists who studies crayfish and hopes they will show him how clean the waters of North Idaho are.

Getting Curious about Crayfish!

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Getting Curious about Crayfish! (2:54 min)

Discover some Louisiana Crayfish in the Santa Rosa creek. Yep, that's right, Crayfish right in the middle of the city!

Incredible Footage of a Molting Crayfish

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Molting Crayfish (1:15 min)

Amazing footage of a molting Crayfish.

National Lobster Hatchery

The Crayfish that Outlived the Dinosaurs!

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Crayfish that Outlived the Dinosaurs! (5:10 min)

Discover the captivating evolution of the Mt. Lewis Spiny Crayfish. Explore its remarkable adaptations and unique features.

KeepingFishSimple

Blue Crab Molting

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Arthropods - Blue Crab Molting (2:23 min)

Arthropods’ exoskeleton must be molted when they grow. This video shows how a blue crab must pull its legs and body out of the old shell.

The Fascinating World of Exoskeletons

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The Fascinating World of Exoskeletons (3:48 min)

There is an entire world of creatures that don't have a backbone at all!

Next Generation Science

How to pick up a Signal Crayfish

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How to pick up a Signal Crayfish (1:15 min)

Short film to show the best and only way to pick up a Signal Crayfish. Follow this info and you'll save getting pinched fingers.

Male vs Female Crayfish

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Male vs Female Crayfish (4:12 min)

Discover the easy-to-spot variations between male and female crayfish in this informative video.

Jack of All Clades

How to Draw a Crayfish

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How to Draw a Crayfish (6:29 min)

Take a closer look at the three different parts of a seed and learn how they grow into a new plant.

How To Draw A Realistic Crawfish

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How To Draw A Realistic Crawfish (12:13 min)

Today, we're learning how to draw a realistic crawfish!

Art for Kids Hub

'Jabari Jumps' read by Sheryl Lee Ralph

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Jabari Jumps (8:09 min)

Jabari is working up the courage to take a big, important leap! A great read for students that are too scared to pick up a crayfish.

StorylineOnline

Side Trip 3: Food Chains

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The Food Chain (5:54 min)

A typical Everglades food chain, from primary producer (periphyton) all the way up to the infamous top predator, the American Alligator.

Fabulous Food Chains

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Fabulous Food Chains (3:24 min)

This episode shows the way energy moves, or flows, through an ecosystem and how that movement forms Food Chains!

Crash Course Kids

Food Chain for Kids Interactive

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Food Chain for Kids – INTERACTIVE (5:02 min)

This food chain video also goes over tertiary and quaternary consumers as well as decomposers.

Food Chains Song

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🎵Food Chains Song (4:03 min)

This video is packed full of inspiring images focusing on producers and consumers, predators and prey, the decomposers and carnivores and herbivores.

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🎵 Food Chain (2:13 min)

How do energy and nutrients flow through living things in an ecosystem? Let Mr. Gaar take you on a tour through a food chain.

Taylor Sings Science

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🎵Food Chain Song (3:21 min)

Jabari is working up the courage to take a big, important leap! A great read for students that are too scared to pick up a crayfish.

Mr. R.'s Songs for Teaching

The Food Chain Game

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The Food Chain Game

Food chains come to life: when a chain is correctly put together, it turns into an animated working chain!

Sheppard Software

The Food Chain PE Game*

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The Food Chain: PE Game

*Warning: This is a physical active game that requires teacher instruction, and classroom space. It is both cooperative and competitive.

Food chain: Woodland

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Food chain challenge: Woodland

Put your knowledge of food chains to the test by exploring the interactive scene, building your own food chain in a woodland habitat.

Food chain: Tundra

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Food chain challenge: Tundra

Put your knowledge of food chains to the test by exploring the interactive scene, building your own food chain in a tundra habitat.

Food chain: Savannah

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Food chain challenge: Savannah

Put your knowledge of food chains to the test by exploring the interactive scene, building your own food chain in a savannah habitat.

Standards

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