Instructor: Julie Greene
Subject Area: Science
Animals and Adaptations is a coursed designed to further develop student understanding of the animal world. Study will focus on animal survival techniques, environmental interactions and physical and behavioral adaptations. There will be two main student projects during the trimester. The first will be an individual research project on an animal family and the second will focus on an individual animal species.
Topics
Animals and survival
-Differentiate between innate and learned responses of animals
-Understand the basics of animal systems and how they help an individual survive and function
Animal interactions
-Identify examples of mutualism, commensalism and parasitism
-Analyze effects of change from one species in an ecosystem
Animal adaptations
-Explain the coevolution of species and how it affects survival in an ecosystem
Student Projects
Each student will research animal families to determine how responses are learned or inherited and how the animal depends on other species within the ecosystem for survival.
Standards
The student will describe how the environment and interactions between organisms can affect the number of species and the diversity of species in an ecosystem.
The student will classify, compare and contrast the diversity of organisms on Earth and their modes of accommodating the requirements for life.
