Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan

There are three separate lessons here based upon questions.A list of questions about the characteristics of marine arthropods to use after viewing the video Marine Arthropods: A Successful Design.A Shape of Life Marine Arthropods: A Successful Design worksheet. Students make sketches and write short answers to questions about the amazing world of marine arthropods. This was created by Rachel Miller from Science from Scratch.A Powerpoint with questions to use while watching the video Marine Arthropods: A Successful Design.

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In this lesson students make connections between fossils and modern day organisms. Using the information about the Cambrian Explosion, they explore theories about how and why organisms diversified. Students hypothesize what evidence might be helpful to connect fossil organisms to modern organisms to show evolutionary connections. Students use three videos from shapeoflife.org.

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Students learn about the microscopic world of tiny plankton drifters. They watch videos that simulate looking at live invertebrate larvae under a microscope.