1. Bell-ringer: 5 minutes p.s. DO NOT MOVE DESKS TODAY!
State the name of the biome we are a part of and how we as humans are capable of surviving in it.
p.s. DO NOT MOVE DESKS TODAY!

3. Adaptation Benefit Benefit Benefit Benefit Benefit Benefit To Heat
To Cold
To Protect
Adaptation
To Water
To Sun
Benefit
Benefit
To Move
Benefit

4. Frayer Model: Adaptation
Fold paper hotdog style, crease, then unfold
Fold paper hamburger style, crease, then unfold

5. Station Work Bring at least 2 pieces of paper
Make the following chart:
The animal and its adaptations (at least 3-5)
The benefit of the adaptation
Challenge
Number down to 6

6. Adaptation
A change to the body or behavior that has some benefit to the living thing and therefore has been successfully passed down and “perfected” with time to help the organism live and cope in its unique environment

7. Adapting to Heat
Give off heat: larger extremities, tall, skinny, less fur, smaller
Handle more heat to save energy and water (Adaptive hyperthermia), let heat go at night
Make less heat: cheetahs STOP running, sneak, can cool the brain and let other body parts heat
Avoid the heat: Stay in shade or underground during the day
Lower metabolism

9. To Save Water Avoid heat in the day Can go longer without water
Concentrated urine, Thicker blood, can re-injest urine or feces of offspring (desperate times!)
Get water from food like seeds and succulent plants

10. Adapting to Cold
Bear it: larger size, smaller extremities like ears and legs, more insulation and fat, winter fur, changing body temperature to warm the center of the body
Hibernate: lower body temperature, lower metabolism, lower activity
Leave: food storage and starvation over long time

12. Adapting to Water pressure and long dives without air
No bones in flukes
Collapsible ribs and lungs at low depths
Compressed vertebrae
Extra capillaries in lungs, 3 times the oxygen gets used from inhaling air
2 times the number of red blood cells
Half the heart rate in deep dives
Blood gets redirected from the muscles to the brain
Higher tolerance of CO2 and lactic acid

13. Adaptations to aid Movement through habitat
WATER: webbed feet, streamlined body, flat tail, nose and ears that close, membrane over the eyes to keep water out, smaller ears, rotated flippers to swim versus walk, fins to stabilize
AIR: gliding “patagium” or skin flap, wings, longer and lighter bones
ARMS: hyper-extention, smaller thumbs, longer fingers, longer finger nails/claws
TAIL: opposable digits in hand, prehensile tail for grabbing and balance
GROUND: arms rotated outward to brush dirt from face, closed or no eyes, smaller ears
JUMPING: flexible spines, longer legs, tail for balance
SPEED: smaller clavicle bone by neck so limbs able to reach all the way to the head for the longest strides, longer limbs, flexible spine, toes in hooves or with more toes off the ground
DETECTION IN FOREST: echolocation

15. Adaptations for Protection from predation/competition
Poisons
Scents
Spines
Warning colors
Movement of leaves

16. Abilities to Find Light (Plants)

17. Summary/HOT group discussion:
Which challenge might lead to the greatest variety of adaptations? Why?
Imagine you live in the depth of the ocean where there is hardly any light and intense pressure. Create and describe how you would use your own adaptation to survive as a plant and again as an animal.

18. Population changes, evolution
If everyone were able to have some difference to their DNA to allow them to be just a little different, how do we get from that to these extremely different animals today that are really good at surviving in their own conditions?
What could be the result of things like climate change? Can animals adapt fast enough? Why/ why not?