Big Ideas: Animal Beginings and Organization / Sponges and Cnidarians

Essential Questions: What is an animal? How did animals evolve?  What body plans can be found in animals? What defines a sponge? What defines a cnidarian?

Vocabulary: animal, invertebrate, vertebrate, body symmetry, cephalization; sponge, cnidarians

Month

Content

Skills

Asessment

Standards

Instructional Activities, Strategies, and Differentiation

January

Introduction to Zoology:

Formative:

Formal Indiana State Core Standards Are Not Available

Provide Topic Reading Assignments and Vocabulary List

* Introduction to Animals (Definition, Invertebrates / Vertebrates, Survival)

Distinguish between bilateral and radial symmetry

Student Partipiation and Dialog

Deliver Information via Lecture, Discussion and Handouts

* Evolution (Cell Specialization and Levels of Organization, Early Development, Body Symmetry, Cephalization)

Understand the reasoning of cephalization

Study Guide Assignments

However, Some Related State Standards Associated with General Biology Could Apply

Use Technology (ie Simulations/Illustrations/Videos), Various Manipulatives and Word Play

Lab Practicles and/or Projects

Offer Review Opportunities (Study Guides and Study Sessions)

Sponges and Cnidarians:

Chapter Quizzes

Visit:https://www.in.gov/doe/students/indiana-academic-standards/science-and-computer-science/

Supplement Topic Discussion with Labs/Projects/Demonstrations

* Form and Function (Body Plan, Feeding, Respiration, Circulation, Excretion, Response, Reproduction,)

Create a model of a typical sponge

Reading / Vocabulary Exam

* Ecology of Sponges and Cnidarians (Temperature, Water Depth, Light, etc…)

Observe the anatomy and behavior of hydras

* Groups of Cnidarians (Jellyfishes, Hydras, Sea Anemones and Corals)

Summative:

Chapter Exam

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