1. Critter Labs Finding out about Isopods, plants, and snails.
What is the role of each?
How do each meet their needs?
What features allow these organisms to survive in this environment?

2. Critter Labs Critter info sheets Rearing guides
Critter info sheets
Rearing guides

3. Isopod, a.k.a. rolly-polly, sowbug, pillbug, woodlice
Isopod structures
Isopod behavior
SB4 f: Relate animal adaptations, including behaviors, to the ability to survive stressful environmental conditions.
S7L1b: Classify organisms based on physical characteristics using a dichotomous key

4. Isopod, a.k.a. rolly-polly, sowbug, pillbug, woodlice
YIKES! Some isopod species are huge!
Sexing Isopods
Ocean Isopod Video-clip

5. Model Habitat Features & Investigate Isopod Behavior
Food Preference
Preference for
Wet or Dry
Light or Dark
Hill Challenge, on rough and smooth
GPS Characteristics of Science
--S7CS6 Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly.
Elements: a. Write clear, step-by-step instructions for conducting particular scientific investigations, operating a piece of equipment, or following a procedure. c. Organize scientific information using appropriate simple tables, charts, and graphs, and identify relationships they reveal.

6. Model Habitat Features & Investigate Isopod Behavior
Food Preference
Preference for
Wet or Dry
Light or Dark
Hill Challenge, on rough and smooth
GPS Characteristics of Science
--S7CS6 Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly.
Elements: a. Write clear, step-by-step instructions for conducting particular scientific investigations, operating a piece of equipment, or following a procedure. c. Organize scientific information using appropriate simple tables, charts, and graphs, and identify relationships they reveal.

7. Model Habitat Features & Investigate Isopod Behavior
Food Preference
Preference for
Wet or Dry
Light or Dark
Hill Challenge, on rough and smooth
GPS Characteristics of Science
-- SCSh3 Students will identify and investigate problems scientifically.
Elements:
a. Suggest reasonable hypotheses for identified problems. b. Develop procedures for solving scientific problems. c. Collect, organize and record appropriate data. d. Graphically compare and analyze data points and/or summary statistics. e. Develop reasonable conclusions based on data collected. f. Evaluate whether conclusions are reasonable by reviewing the process and checking against other available information.

8. Earthworm a.k.a. Night Crawler Lumbricus terrestris as a “model”
An example of a scavenger
Organ system function (muscular, digestive, circulatory)
“Model Organisms” in biological research

9. S4L2.a Identify external features of organisms that allow them to survive or reproduce better than organisms that do not have these features.

10. S4L2.a Identify external features of organisms that allow them to survive or reproduce better than organisms that do not have these features.

11. S4L2.a Identify external features of organisms that allow them to survive or reproduce better than organisms that do not have these features.
Waggle Dance

12. S4L2.a Identify external features of organisms that allow them to survive or reproduce better than organisms that do not have these features.
Shapeshifting Octopus
Hide and Seek