How Animals Change their Environment

Elizabeth BuckholtzTPS Science Support

Start your concept map.

How do living things affect nonliving things?

Beavers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:American_Beaver.jpg

Beavers

http://students.cis.uab.edu/saccursi/project/dam.html

Beavers

http://www.anacostiaws.org/news/blog/busy-beavers-flood-local-parking-lot

Beavers

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/beaver_damage/conflicts.shtml

http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/176486/enlarge

Beavers

http://shelledy.mesa.k12.co.us/staff/computerlab/ColoradoLifeZones_Riparian_Adaptations.html

Beavers

http://arnebeckwinter.blogspot.com/2011_04_03_archive.html

Beavers

http://www.lakesidebeavers.co.uk/wp/fun/

Beavers

http://stevegreerphotograph.photoshelter.com/image/I0000PMtRJkITYJs

Beavers

http://blogs.yourdiscovery.com/.m/whats-new/2009/10/ancient-giant-beavers-didnt-have-a-taste-for-wood.html

Beavers

Beavers

http://www.martinezbeavers.org/wordpress/page/2/

Beavers

http://www.audubonguides.com/article.html?id=96

Beavers

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/beaver-dam.htm

Resources for teachers

• Lesson plan on the Needs of Living things which includes information about how animals affect the nonliving environment.

Lichens

Lichens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Parmeliopsis_ambigua_-_lichen_-_gr%C3%BCnliche_Schneepegel-Flechte.jpg

Lichens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LogLichen.jpg

Lichens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:N2_Lichen.jpg

Lichens

Lichens

Teacher Resources

Contains Printable, leveled books about lichens.

Ants

Amazing Ants

http://www.pestworldforkids.org/ants.html

Ants

http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mY1UA9K/red+entrance+-++bull+ants+nest

Ants

http://www.123rf.com/photo_8178685_close-up-of-ant-carrying-seed.html

Ants

https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSFtt5aen5c57q4aG2OLFjPg5Y4HSEDMcAUarGURvKj3bplBytQ

Ants

http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/tech1253.html

Ants

http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/14126

Ants

http://blogs.discovery.com/animal_news/2011/01/when-teeth-go-bad-leaf-cutter-ants-call-it-quits.html

Ants

http://www.toledozoo.org/animals/cam_ants.html

Teacher Resources

• Lesson plan (K-5) to help students learn how ants create different types of colonies depending on their environment.

Teaching Resources

• Thematic units, experiments about ants.

http://www.classbrain.com/artmovies/publish/article_20.shtml

Worms

Worms

http://www.worm-farming.com/worm-facts.html

Worms

http://urbanext.illinois.edu/worms/live/index.html

Worms

Worms

http://www.songbirdgarden.com/store/info/infoview.asp?documentid=214

Worms for composting

http://www.pistilsnursery.com/worm-composting

Teacher Resources

Everything you want to know about worms. The site calls it a game but it is a power interactive instructional resource about worms.

http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Vermi/Game/menu.html

Teacher Resources

• 48 pg PDF full of great cross curricular worm activities.

http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Publications/Schools/56001007.pdf

Teacher Resources

http://tolweb.org/treehouses/?treehouse_id=3330

An online story about an worm and a farmer.

Teacher REsources

http://www.moppetgames.com/math-games/play/math-worm/

Teacher Resources

• Worm activities, experiment to determine what worms will eat, build a worm condo, worm observations.

http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/family/worm-activities.htm

Teacher Resources

• Worm facts, videos of a worm’s heart beating, a worm hatching, interview with a worm farmer.

http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/worm/

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