1. Feb. 6, 2012 Warm Up Take out journal
Collect vocabulary sheet off of table by door
Begin work on vocabulary (DUE FRIDAY!!)

2. What do you think was the stimulus in the clip below and what was the response to that stimuli?
Discussion:

3. Stimulus and Response Why animals and plants do what they do OR
A fancy way of saying cause and effect in the animal world.

4. Catalyst
1. Describe a situation in which you were immediately scared and/or reacted quickly to something. Write at least 1 paragraph with 4 sentences describing your experience.

5. After today you will be able to:
1. Identify and classify stimuli as internal or external
2. Define a response.
3. Identify behavior as learned behavior or instinct.

6. What is a stimulus?
Stimulus: any change in an organism’s environment that causes to the organism to react. It is a fancy way of saying “cause”.
Stimulus – singular
Stimuli – plural
Example: An animal is cold so it moves into the sun.

7. What is a response?
Response: how the organism reacts to a stimulus and results in a change in behavior. It is a fancy way of saying “effect”.
Example: Getting a drink when you are thirsty.

8. Examples of stimuli and their responses:
You are hungry so you eat some food
A rabbit gets scared so it runs away
You are cold so you put on a jacket
A dog is hot so lies in the shade
It starts raining so you take out an umbrella

9. Plants also respond to their environment
Plants also respond to their environment. When a plant grows towards the sun we call this phototropism.

10. Turn to your partner and share two other stimuli and their responses.
Think – Pair - Share
Turn to your partner and share two other stimuli and their responses.

11. There are two types of stimuli:
External Stimuli
and
Internal Stimuli

12. External Stimulus
External stimulus: a stimulus that comes from outside an organism.
Examples:
1. You feel cold so you put on a jacket.
2. A snake lunges at a rabbit so it runs away.
3. A dog feels hot so it goes to lay in the shade.

13. Internal Stimulus
Internal stimulus: a stimulus that comes from inside an organism.
Examples:
1. You feel hungry so you eat some food.
2. A cat feels thirsty so it drinks water.
3. A dog feels hot so it goes to lay in the shade.

14. You have a stomach ache and decide to lay down.
Make a T-chart on your dry erase board and label the columns internal and external. Put the letter of each stimulus in the proper column.
You have a stomach ache and decide to lay down.
A bird is thirsty and drinks some water.
A squirrel sees a cat and runs up a tree.
A lion gets hungry and eats a gazelle.
You see a spider and scream.

15. Animals can respond to stimuli in two ways:
1. In a way that they learned. We call this learned behavior. OR
2. In a way that they were just born knowing how to do. We call this instinct.

16. Learned behavior: a response to a stimulus that an animal was taught.
Add this word to your vocabulary book

17. A mother bear teaching her cubs to fish

18. Teaching an animal a trick

19. Training a dog

20. Even you have learned behavior
Even you have learned behavior. For example, you learned to read and to talk.

21. Instinct: an animal’s natural reaction to a stimulus
Instinct: an animal’s natural reaction to a stimulus. It is an automatic reaction that the animal was not taught to do.

22. Animals natural instinct is to run away from danger
Animals natural instinct is to run away from danger. We call this the need for safety.

23. Animals will naturally find or make themselves a home because they have a need for shelter.

24. Animals will naturally look for food and water.

25. Animals that need to will naturally migrate.

26. Animals instinctually know to store their food for the winter.

27. Let’s look at the scared cat clip again…
In your journal write down if you think the cat’s reaction was a learned or an instinctive reaction to the stimulus of the car’s horn. Explain your answer.
Discussion:

28. On a sheet of NBP answer the following questions.
What is a stimulus?
What is a response?
Give one example of a stimulus and its response.
What is an internal stimulus?
What is an external stimulus?
It is raining and you open up an umbrella. Is this an internal or external response? Justify your answer.
What is learned behavior?
What is an instinct?
When a rabbit runs away from a wolf is this learned behavior or instinct? Justify your answer.