Jess's Activities and Resources

Activity-Hands-on
1. Tell students that they will be investigating how adaptations for feeding help predators catch their prey.
2. Divide the class as evenly as possible into three groups: knives, forks, and spoons.
3. Give each student a cup and a piece of silverware. [Each group should have a different type of silverware: knife, fork, or spoon.]
4. Have each group pick one member to be a recorder who will take paper and pencil outside and record the group’s results.
5. Tell students that in this activity, they will be representing animals, the lentils will represent food, and each type of silverware will represent a different adaptation for feeding.
6. Take students outside and throw the lentils onto the grass.
7. Tell students that they may pick up one bean at a time using only their “feeding appendage” (the plastic silverware) and place it into their cup. Explain that the object of the game is to pick up as many beans as possible, and put them in the cups, in the time given.
8. Give students two minutes to collect as many beans as possible.
9. At the end of two minutes, have students gather with their group
and count how many beans they collected. Have the recorder for each group record the results.

TECHNOLOGY
1. after students complete the hands-on activity, they will visit a virtual zoo in which they will see visual images of a variety of animals. Students will record the different animal adaptations they find.

VIRTUAL ZOO WEBSITE: http://library.advanced.org/11922/index.htm