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.
 * THEME: Sharing the planet **

Title: Watch Us Grow 

Central Idea:  All plants and animals have life cycles that are characterized by change.

Lines of Inquiry:
 * Understand and compare life cycles of living things
 * Know that flowers and fruits are associated with reproduction in plants
 * Recognize effects of environmental factors on growth and life cycles

Websites: [|Monarch Butterfly Journey]

Webquests: [|Plight of the Monarch Butterfly] [|Lifecycles] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|What's a Plant]?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Videos: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Plant Life Cycles] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|The Plant Lifecycle] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Insect Lifecycles: Metamorphosis]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Choose an animal: [|Dolphin], [|Frog], [|Kangaroo], or [|Butterfly] <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[|Changing and Growing Animals] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Create a [|glogster] with your group to teach about the lifecycle of your animal? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Is you animal endangered?
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">PROJECT: **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">ECOSYSTEMS <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">The most commonly accepted biomes that exist on the Earth are Tundra, Desert, Grassland, Tropical Rain Forest, Deciduous Forest, and Coniferous Forest. Though there is some debate among scientists as to exactly how biomes should be classified.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Research Websites:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">Major Biomes of the World

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Wildfinder - Ecoregions & Species around the World

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Electronic Fact Sheets on Over 50 Species

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Animal Planet

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">World Biome Map

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Project Noah - Plants and Animals Around the World

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">BBC Nature - videos, facts, and animal sounds

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Arkive - pictures, videos, and facts about animals

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">WWF - Habitats

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">National Geographic - Creature Feature

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">National Geographic - Biomes

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Adaptations and Survival

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Switcheroo Zoo

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Kids Do Ecology - World Biomes

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">South American Biomes

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Atacama

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Atacama Desert

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">The Amazon

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Amazon Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18px;">The Andes

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16.899999618530273px;">Andes Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">The Pampas

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Pampas Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Galapagos Islands

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Galapagos Ecoregion

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Galapagos Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Brazil Shelf Coral Reef

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Patagonian Steppe

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">African Biomes

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">African Habitats

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Sahara Desert

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Serengeti Savanna

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Congo Rainforest

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Congo Rainforest

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Madagascar Coral Reef

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Madagascar Reef Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Madagascar Toliar Barrier Reef Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Asian Biomes Map

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Asian Biomes List

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Mongolian Steppe

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Mongolian Steppe Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Mongolian Steppe Photos

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Yangtze Deciduous Forest

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">YDF Foping Nature Reserve

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">YDF Wolong National Nature Reserve

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Siberian Taiga

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Siberian Spruce in the Taiga

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Siberian Taiga Wikipedia

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Borneo Rainforest

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Borneo Rainforest Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Borneo - SE Asian Rainforest

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Gobi Desert

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Gobi Desert Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Gobi Desert Information

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Coral Triangle Reef

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Coral Triangle Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Coral Triangle Map and Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Himalayan Alpine Biome

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Himalaya Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Himalaya BBC Videos

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Bering Tundra

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Australian Biomes

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Australia Facts for Kids

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Australian Outback Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Great Sandy-Tanami Desert

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Australian Desert Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Great Barrier Reef

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Great Barrier Reef Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Great Barrier Reef Facts for Kids

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Murray River Billabong

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Billabong Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Tasmanian Rainforest

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Tasmanian Rainforest Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Kimberley Savanna

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Kimberely Savanna Facts

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Australian Grasslands

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Grassland Biome

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Southwest Australian Shrublands

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Southwest Australian Jarrah-Karri Forest

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Macquarie, Heard, and McDonald Island Tundra

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Graphic Organizers

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Match Animals to the Australian Habitat

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Guide to Australian Habitats

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Australian Priority Species

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Australian Museum - Habitats

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">ACTIVITIES

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Adaptation Song

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Animal Vocabulary Games

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">[|Animal Adaptations Game]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">Habitat Adventure Webquest

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 18.200000762939453px;">[|Animal Habitats]