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Student Trivia handout for Fantastic Flatworms Lesson Plan

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In this lesson, students will be introduced to the concept of taxonomy, and categorization of organisms based on Carl Linnaeus’s system of classification.

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Trivia handout about sponges

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

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Students will explain annelid adaptations with art and in writing.

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

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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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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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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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Companion to "Cnidarian Adapatations" lesson plan