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    Plankton - It's a Way of Life
    Hey students, there's a universe of plankton drifters waiting for you. watch live invertebrate larvae under a microscope

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    Alitta Succinea
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    Annelid Adaptations + Art
    Students will explain annelid adaptations with art and in writing.

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    Our Chordate Family Tree
    Students explore the evolution of the phylum Chordata by constructing a "family tree" -- a diagram of evolutionary traits and animals

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    Life in the Fast Lane: From Hunted to Hunter
    Lab dissection of a squid, a member of Class Cephalopoda (along with the octopus and nautilus). Supported by several Shape of Life segments, students interpret squid adaptations as a radical case of divergent evolution: A line of ancestral snails abandoned the life of sluggish grazing and foraging in favor of a new niche as speedy open water predators.

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    The Mussel– A Not-So-Typical Mollusc
    Lab dissection of a representative of Class Bivalvia. Supported by several Shape of Life segments, students interpret bivalve adaptations as a radical case of divergent evolution: A simple ancestral snail with a mobile lifestyle, single dome-shaped shell, bilateral symmetry, and a head (“cephalization”) transformed into a headless, double-shelled, sedentary filter-feeder whose bilateral form is obscure.

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    SNIPS AND SNAILS AND GASTROPOD TAILS
    A brief hands-on investigation of Class Gastropoda (snails and slugs), followed by a critical thinking exercise centered on segments of the Shape of Life.

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    Presentation Rubric
    Companion to "Cnidarian Adapatations" lesson plan

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    Arthropod Trivia
    Companion to "Terrestrial Arthropod Adaptations" lesson plan

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    Arthropod Glossary - Student Edition
    Glossary for "Terrestrial Arthropod Adaptations" lesson plan

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    Be a Scientist - Student Edition
    This lesson requires students to do a report on distinct scientific fields using Shape of Life videos, Internet resources and a handout about “Cool Science Careers."

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