Sharing+the+Planet

Theme: Sharing the planet An inquiry into rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with other people and with other living things; communities and the relationships within and between them; access to equal opportunities; peace and conflict resolution.

TOPIC: Biomimicry

Central Idea : The functions and behaviors of organisms influence human design

Lines of Inquiry:
 * The structures and development of organisms
 *  How plants and animals respond to stimuli
 * Responsible design utilizing functions and/or behaviors of organisms

Websites:
 * Wildfinder - Ecoregions & Species around the World
 * Electronic Fact Sheets on Over 50 Species
 * Animal Planet
 * Project Noah - Plants and Animals Around the World
 * BBC Nature - videos, facts, and animal sounds
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Arkive - pictures, videos, and facts about animals
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">National Geographic - Creature Feature
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Adaptations and Survival
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Switcheroo Zoo

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Games:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Adaptation Song
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Animal Vocabulary Games
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">[|Animal Adaptations Game]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">[|Animal Adaptations Games]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Videos


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Biotic & Abiotic]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|MyON: From Seed to Pine Tree]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Say What?]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Elephant Seal Noses]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Bird Beak Adaptations]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|MyON: Are You Living? A Song About Living and Nonliving Things]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Living & Nonliving Things]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Abiotic & Biotic Factors]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|DE: Living and Nonliving Things]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|The Needs of a Plant]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|The Needs of an Animal]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|MyON: Is It Living or Nonliving?]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|DE: Interactions of Living Things]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Inherited vs Learned Traits]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|YouTube: What is a gene?]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|YouTube: What is DNA?]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|TedEd: Where do genes come from?]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|BrainPop: Cell Structures]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|BrainPop: DNA]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|BrainPop: RNA]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|TedEd: How Mendel's peas help us understand genetics]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">DE: The Ugly Duckling
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Amazing Animals: Animal Babies (Part 1 of 2)]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Amazing Animals: Animal Babies (Part 2 of 2)]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|An Elephant Grows Up]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|A Kangaroo Grows Up]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Baby Goats Video]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Baby Dogs Video]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Baby Pigs Video]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Baby Horse Video]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Baby Chickens Video]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Let's Read Just Like Me?]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Let’s Read Look Alikes?]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|MyON: From Beginning to End A Song About Life Cycles]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|DE: Animal Life Cycles]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|From Egg to Snake]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|BrainPopJr: Plant Life Cycles]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Animal Communication]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Auditory Animal Communication]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|World Animal Communication]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|DE: Concepts in Nature Animal Communication]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Chemical Animal Communication]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Animal Communication]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Visual Communication in Plants and Animals]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Video: Animal Features and Their Functions]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Click here to read Comparing Body Coverings]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|MyON Animals]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|BrainPopJr: Classifying Animals]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Classifying Animals]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Vertebrates Have Backbones]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|The Invertebrates Song]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|MyOn Book: Comparing Body Coverings]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|What Are Mammals?]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|What is a Bird?]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Rockin' Reptiles]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Amphibians]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Animal Adaptations: Teeth]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Carnivores, Herbivores, and Omnivores]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|What Do You Eat?]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|MyOn: Carnivores]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|MyOn: Herbivores]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|MyOn: Omnivores]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|MyON: The Science Behind Plants]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Parts of a Plant Song]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|BrainPopJr: Parts of a Plant]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|How Do Plants Make Food?]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|What is Transpiration?]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|The Photosynthesis Song]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Seed Dispersal: The Great Escape]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|How Do Seeds Travel?]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Adaptations Song]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Animal Features and Their Functions]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Camp Wilderness: Animal Adaptations]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Regeneration]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Symbiosis]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Blubber]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Camouflage]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Camouflage 2]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Echolocation - Bats]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Echolocation - Dolphins]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Echolocation and Ultrasound]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Molting - Snake]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Molting - Spider]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Molting - Spider Crab]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Molting - Cicada]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Molting - Penguin]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Moulting - Various Animals]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|BrainPopJr: Camouflage]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|BrainPopJr: Hibernation]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Adaptations to the Extreme]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|MyON: Desert Animal Adaptations]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|MyON: Ocean Animal Adaptations]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|MyON: Polar Animal Adaptations]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|MyON: Rain Forest Animal Adaptations]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Adaptations Research]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Animal Research Sites]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|BioKids Catalog]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|BrainPopJr: Plant Adaptations]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|You at the Zoo: Plants]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Adaptations of Leaves]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|DE: Plants]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|DE: Plant Adaptations]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|The Magic School Bus Gets Planted]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|The Sensitive Plant]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Exploding Plants]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Climbing Plant]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Plant Adaptations]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Time Lapse of a Pea Shoot]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Time Lapse of a Sunflower]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|BBC Adaptations]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Plant Adaptations MBG Site]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Plant Adaptation Videos]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Plant Adaptations List]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|"Biomimicry: Design by Nature"]:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Biomimicry Website]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|National Geographic Biomimetics]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Nature Inspires]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Biomimicry Examples]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Kid Inventors]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Whiteboard lesson]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Vocabulary Chart Biomimicry and Engineering .pdf]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Amazing Examples of Biomimicry]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Biomimicry Inspired by Plants and Animals]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Biomimicry Projects]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Tech to Reconnect: Biomimicry Project Examples]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Velcro Inspiration and Design]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Street Lighting with Glow in the Dark Bioluminescent Plants]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Nature's Shoes Design Process]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Bicycle Cart Design Process]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">[|Design Presentation]