Adaptation

Go to this site to see examples of camouflaged frogs and their surroundings. Create the ideal surrounding for a favorite animal so that it will be camouflaged.

http://allaboutfrogs.org/weird/protection/hideseek.html

Set up this activity that illustrates the importance of staying still to being camouflaged and share it with the class.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/disappearing_act.html

Go to http://www.normanbirdsanctuary.org/draw_a_bird.shtml to learn how to make a bird drawing. After drawing about six birds, write a dichotomous key to identify the birds.

Go to http://www.normanbirdsanctuary.org/creatabird.shtml and watch your selected bird characteristics appear in a created bird.

Go to http://www.normanbirdsanctuary.org/feet_adaptations.shtml or to http://birds.ecoport.org/Identification/EBfeet.htm to learn about the adaptations of bird feet. Create a Power Point about the feet shapes shown there, identifying birds with those feet shapes.

Do further research on the species mentioned in this part or any other species that has changed over time. Choose a way to report your findings.

Honeycreeper – see http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~spain/hawaiipg02B.html

Go to this site to see photos of a variety of finches. http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~gfeldman/birds.html

Go to http://www.rom.on.ca/activities/ for a variety of interactive activities.

Go to http://www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/Resources.htm for fossil tools and resources.

Choose one of the following pairs of examples of mimicry to research:

Visual

1. monarch and viceroy butterflies

2. yellow jacket and sand wasp

3. syrphid fly and honey bee

4. coral snake and colubrid snake

5. cuckoo and various host birds (an example of egg mimicry)

6. red-backed salamander and red salamander

7. poison-fang blenny and Ecsenius blenny

8. gold-of-pleasure plant and the flax plant

9. mantid (insectivorous) and orchid

10. ophrys (orchids) and female of some species

11. pipe-vine swallowtail butterfly and spice-bush swallowtail

12. caterpillars and catkins

Odor

13. caterpillar and Myrmica ant

14. spider and red ant of Florida

At this site you can solve a mystery involving creating a DNA fingerprint (the lab and all necessary materials are on the site) and comparing this fingerprint to those of the suspects. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sheppard/analyze.html

At this site there are a variety of activities involving genetics.

http://www.ology.amnh.org/genetics/index.html

Go to this site for a simple procedure for the DNA Extraction from Wheat Germ.

http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/activities/wheatgerm/index.cfm

Bird Migration Game

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/MigratoryBirds/Education/Kids_Stuff/Woth_Game/