5th+Grade+Science-+Balance+and+Stability+in+Life+Science

Life Science





[|Interactive Water Cycle]

[|Comic Strip Creator]

[|ToonDoo]

[|The Great Graph Match]

[|Daylight Hours Similator]

[|Chart and Graph Maker]

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Bacteria and Fungi:


 * [|STUDY JAMS: NITROGEN CYCLE]**


 * [|Microbe World]**


 * [|More about Fungi and Bacteria]**


 * [|Bacteria: Friends or Enemies]**


 * [|The Food Chain Game]**



The 5 kingdoms of classification [|Kids Biology- 5 kingdoms]


 * Vertebrates and Invertebrates**


 * [|Animal Kingdom- Vertebrates vs Invertebrates]**
 * [|National Geo Kids: Animal Research]**
 * [|Animal Fact Website]**


 * [|EARTHWORMS]**


 * [|Invertebrates: What are they? (13 min video)]**



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[|Do Starfish Have Eyes?]

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[|ADAPTATIONS WEB PROJECT] [|Structural and Behavioral Adaptations] [|Adaptation Game] [|ECOSYSTEMS]



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[|Biomes of the World]

[|Biomes (Study Jams)]

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[|Take a walk in the forest!!]

[|Adaptations for surviving in a deciduous forest.]

[|More Deciduous forest information!]







Crash: A Tale of Two Species

[|More about the Red Knot]



[|Monarch Butterfly] [|American Robin] [|Whooping Crane] [|Oriole] [|Common Loon] [|Barn Swallow] [|Red-Winged Blackbird] = = =**Super Survivors**= [|Frilled Shark] [|Frilled Shark] [|American Cockroach] [|American Cockroach] [|American Coackroach] [|Komodo Dragon] [|Komodo Dragon] [|Coelacanth] [|Coelacanth]





ADAPTATION 

Adaption:

1. a change in a plant or animal that makes it better able to live in a particular place or situation

▪  The insect's evolutionary adaptations  enable it to be almost invisible even when sitting in the middle of a leaf.

2. something that is adapted ; especially **: ** a movie, book, play, etc., that is changed so that it can be presented in another form ▪  His stage adaptation  of the novel was a success. ▪  The film is an <span class="it" style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;">adaptation <span class="vi" style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> of a book of the same title.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">3. the process of changing to fit some purpose or situation **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">: **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> the process of adapting

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=**Life Cycles**= [|Life cycle of a flowering plant diagram.] [|Dissect a flower.] [|Life Cycles (bird, butterfly, frog)] [|Life Cycles]
 * [|Plant Life Cycles]**
 * [|Life Cycle of non-flowering plants]**

[|Insect Life Cycle Video Clip] [|Insect Life Cycle Full Video (15 min)] [|Biology Plant Video (20 min)] [|The science of plants (19 min)]



Metamorphosis=change



Incomplete and complete metamorphosis differ in the number of life cycle stages an organism will go through during its transformation from egg to adult. **Complete metamorphosis** has four distinct life cycle stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The larva can be worm-like, although you can still see the six legs. The larvae eat constantly and grow rapidly. A hard, protective case forms around the larva; this is the pupa stage.**Incomplete metamorphosis** only has three life cycle stages: egg, nymph, and adult. The nymph looks similar to, but is a smaller version of, the adult. The nymph is also wingless.

In this activity, you will be investigating the type of metamorphosis that the following insects experience. Click on each insect and you will be brought to a webpage where you can find your answer. For our purposes, incomplete, gradual and simple metamorphosis will all be considered the same.

Once you have found all of your answers you can click here for [|additional photos.].
 * 1) [|Ants]
 * 2) [|Termites]
 * 3) [|Earwigs]
 * 4) [|Bees]
 * 5) [|Cockroaches]
 * 6) [|Fleas]
 * 7) [|Ladybugs]
 * 8) [|Dragonfly]
 * 9) [|Praying mantis]
 * 10) [|Crickets]
 * 11) [|Mosquito]
 * 12) [|Stink bug]
 * 13) [|Mealworm]
 * 14) [|Walkingstick]

=**Inherited Traits vs. Learned Behaviors**= [|Inherited vs learned traits quiz]
 * [|Koko's Kids Club]**
 * [|Inherited trait review game]**

=Food Webs and Food Chains=

[|Food Chain (Study Jams)] [|Food Webs (Study Jams)]





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[|Build a food web and earn your certificate!]

[|Build a food web (meadow, arctic and pond)]

[|Link to animal research!]

[|What role do decomposers play? Digital Lab]

[|How do environmental changes affect organisms? Digital Lesson]

[|Adaptations Digital Lesson]