Ecology
Ecology covers the interactions between plants and animals and their environment.
Create a new creature based on the adaptations of existing creatures from the same biome.
Sure, students might know the difference between a producer and a consumer… but have they considered how they feel about each other? What, in a producer's opinion, are the pros and cons of a consumer?
Your students will create a new flower, designed to attract a specific pollinator.
Which animal has the most interesting, most valuable, or strangest adaptations?
Want to move beyond memorizing the characteristics of biomes? In this lesson, students work through a Tournament of Biomes, explaining which biome wins in each round (based on criteria you choose). In the end, they crown a 👑 Champion Biome!
Students will determine which creature of the tundra is not like the others.
Who will win in a tournament of eight plants with Interesting adaptations!?
Let's look at living vs non-living things.
Can your class spot the vertebrates vs invertebrates?
Students will determine which type of penguin is not like the others.
Some of these animals are nocturnal and some are diurnal.
What if a capybara and a kangaroo rat switched homes? Would their adaptations be helpful at all?
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Which of these four birds is not like the others?
Students will determine which snake of the rainforest is not like the others.
Which of these rainforests is not like the others?
Which of these deserts is not like the others?
Students will determine which type of ant is not like the others.
Students will determine which flower is not like the others.
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Students will determine which desert bird is not like the others.
Let's look at saltwater vs freshwater organisms.
Let's look at deciduous vs coniferous trees.
A mysterious image. Slowly reveal it. Let your students wonder!
Students will determine which cephalopod is not like the others.