Seasonal Behavior of Animals

Title: Seasonal Behavior of Animals

Author: Carla Cota

Subject: Bio

Grade: 6

Week: 

Unit/Lesson Plan #: Patterns of Response, Chapter 6 Lesson 3

Unit theme:Explores the responses that organisims can have to stimuli and to long-term changes in their environement

Textbook references:

Learning objectives:

  Migration in animals is a repsonse to seasonal changes.

Endothermic animals maintain nearly constant body temperature even when the surrounding temperature changes.

The body temperature of ecotothermic animals change according to the temperature of their surroudings. 

Key Questions, Concepts, or Themes:

Dormancy

Ectothermic or coldblooded

Endothermic or warmblooded

Migration

Prespire 

Stage 1:

  Getting started:use crickets and freeze a few of them then bring them out and have ths tudents observe thier reactions and how long it takes for them to return to normal temp. 

Stage 2:

Watch a brief movie on Humpack Wall and then have them read page 100 and answer the questions together using the movie for aid. 

Stage 3:

  What does it mean to be cold or warm blooded? Point of animals that are around our urban enviroment.

Homework: No homework in this class?

Assessments: (attach/link copies)

__ Group assessment

__ Observation of process/student work

__ Self-assessment by student

__ Teacher generated assignment

__ Written project

__ Test/Quiz

__ Other: ____________________________________