Animals www.kidcyberteachers.com.au Need help planning classroom activities? Go here to the kidcyber resources for teachers website and find a collection of practical, low cost teaching materials in a variety of curriculum areas to help you 'put it all together'. Our units cost just a few dollars, making it possible for you to buy your own copy. We would like to continue to write for you but we need the few dollars for each copy to make a living and keep our site online. Many thanks Ron & Shirley The following are now available: A Storytelling Guide: Ideas and activities to get you started as a storyteller. Looking at Thailand: A cross-curriculum unit that guides students in years 3 - 6 to investigate aspects of Thai culture and society using inquiry learning. All kinds of bears: An inquiry learning based cross-curricula unit about bears for Years K - 6. Fonix is Phun! And in preparation: Looking at Vietnam; Looking at Indonesia.
Wild Kratts . Habitats Come play again later! Come play again tomorrow! food chain The food chain describes who eats whom in the wild. Every living thing—from one-celled algae to giant blue whales—needs food to survive. Each food chain is a possible pathway that energy and nutrients can follow through the ecosystem. For example, grass produces its own food from sunlight. Of course, many different animals eat grass, and rabbits can eat other plants besides grass. Trophic Levels Organisms in food chains are grouped into categories called trophic levels. Producers, also known as autotrophs, make their own food. Plants are the most familiar type of autotroph, but there are many other kinds. The second trophic level consists of organisms that eat the producers. Consumers can be carnivores (animals that eat other animals) or omnivores (animals that eat both plants and animals). Detritivores and decomposers are the final part of food chains. Decomposers like fungi and bacteria complete the food chain. Food Chains In a pond, the autotroph might be algae.
Animal Lapbooks FREE Materials and information on this website belong to the original composers. It may be used for your own personal and school use. Material may not be used for resale. © 2005-07 HSS Materials and information on this website belong to the original composers. eagles4kids - Home Ocean Food Web Peer into an underwater world. What’s on the menu in the ocean café? In this cool science fair project, discover how tiny ocean life feeds some of the largest animals on the planet. Materials: 8½” x 11” square piece of white cardstock paper Colored pencils Pen Ruler Scissors Transparent tape Books about the plants and animals of the ocean String Masking tape Push pins Corrugated cardboard The oceans are huge, covering almost three quarters of the earth’s surface! Whales are one of the most recognizable marine mammals, and people love to visit the Pacific Northwest to go whale-watching. Seals are common in the Pacific Northwest, and they will often pop up next to you if you’re in a boat. These marine mammals like to munch on fish as well—usually fish like herring or salmon. What do little herring fish eat? The herring prefer to eat little zooplankton called copepods. It’s hard to believe that something as tiny as a copepod needs a good food supply, but copepods have to eat too! Procedure
Zoology Photos: (A special thanks to the California Academy of Sciences for their generous photo contribution); Introductory page American robin, Asian multicolored ladybird beetle, crocodile skink, Jeffery pine, long-tailed salamander, red lionfish, robust lancetooth, smooth flower coral, Salmonella enteriditis: refer to Organism Pages credits below; Joel Cracraft: courtesy of Joel Cracraft, AMNH Cladogram page DNA: courtesy of Denis Finnin, AMNH, The Genomic Revolution Exhibit animals: AMNH, spectrum of life in Hall of Biodiversity; Bilateria: formosan subterranean termite: courtesy of Scott Bauer, Agricultural Research Service; vertebrates, tetrapods, sauropsids, diapsids: AMNH, Hall of Vertebrate Origins; How to Read a Cladogram page: fruit photos excluding watermelon: AMNH; watermelon: courtesy of Ken Hammond, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Organism pages: True Bacteria: Escherichia coli: courtesy of Michael Elowitz Nodularia: Hans Paerl, author.
Inspiring images | OneKind View our archive of stunning photography, courtesy of 2020VISION, the biggest photography-based conservation project ever undertaken in the UK. www.2020v.org Redstarts are immediately identifiable by their bright orange-red tails, which they often quiver. Redstarts ‘bob’ in a very robin-like manner, but spend little time at ground level. Puffins’ short wings are adapted for swimming with a flying technique under water. In the air, they beat their wings rapidly (up to 400 times per minute) in swift flight, often flying low over the ocean’s surface. Swallows are extremely agile in flight and spend most of their time on the wing. Reaching lengths of up to 11 metres, Basking Sharks are the largest fish in British waters. Gannet pairs may remain together over several seasons. Dolphins are extraordinarily intelligent animals who also display culture, something which was long-believed to be unique to humans, although now recognised in various species.
Emperor Penguins keep warm in an ever-shifting huddle Snow chicks venture onto the ice and into the huddle In these two clips from the BBC's Snow Chick: A Penguin's Tale, emperor penguin chicks venture from their parents' pouches into their communities. Kate Winslet dramatizes their transitions with her narration. Science and survival on Continent 7: Antarctica At -100 degrees F, you'll survive for less than 3 minutes and burn 5,000 calories a day, and boiling water can turn to snow instantly. Dinosaur fossils uncovered on an Antarctic expedition A team of 12 scientists recently completed an audacious fossil hunting expedition to James Ross Island in Antarctica, and returned with over one ton of marine, avian, and dinosaur fossils that are between 71 million a... An amazing murmuration of 70,000 starlings In autumn and winter in the United Kingdom, giant murmurations of starlings come out at dusk and perform breathtaking aerobatics before they settle into the surrounding landscape. Hundreds of sheep move across New Zealand’s grasslands