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| this image was drawn by A. C. a biology student |
The app inaturalist is very useful to identify living things. Tuesday and Wednesday you will explore what it is to be a living thing, and you will create a Naturalist Notebook using blank paper, your frog and an iNaturalist app. A naturalist notebook is something that biologists have used to note their observations. Today you will
1. Do an exercise called "Dead or Alive" Have a class discussion on the fundamental criteria of living things.
2. Download iNaturalist on an electronic device (such as a phone).
3. Find living things in a natural place such as our Gladstone School Grounds, or Gladstone Garden.
4. Photograph living specimens (and upload to iNaturalist). IDENTIFY the specimen and make a clear, coloured drawing of the specimen.
5. If you finish all of these tasks, you may work on previous homework. If you must do your homework in the classroom, please ensure that all windows are open and the exhaust fan in the room is on and you keep your physical distance from each other.
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS: WHMIS: biohazardous, infectious disease
At this time, the risk of covid-19 Brazilian variant P1 is high in Vancouver, especially if you are meeting people who are not in your immediate household. This covid-19 variant of concern is more easily transmissible and can cause illness in young people. Estimates are that in VCH more than 40% of positive covid tests are P1. Therefore we will conduct our lesson outdoors to mitigate this risk. You will keep your mask on when you are within 2m of another person outside and you will wash your hands if you share any maretials today, including pencil crayons.
ASSIGNMENT A: SCAVENGER HUNT WITH FROG: DEAD OR ALIVE? ( 5 marks )
1. Find something dead: How do you know it is dead? (1 mark)
2. Find something alive. What are the characteristics that tell you that this thing is alive? (1 mark)
3. Find something that has never been alive. What characteristics tell you that this is a NONLIVING thing. (1 mark).
4. Discuss together, as a class, what are the fundamental criteria of living things. There is no wrong answer here... Write these criteria in a paragraph. (2 marks).
ASSIGNMENT B: SCAVENGER HUNT WITH FROG.
(5 marks).
FIND THE FOLLOWING SPECIMENS ALL ON SCHOOL GROUNDS:
5 different plants
5 different animals (this can be INSECTS, SPIDERS, PILLBUGS)
2 fungi ( if you cannot find a mushroom, this can be lichen, which can be found on tree bark)
ASSIGNMENT C: NATURALIST NOTEBOOK: (25 marks)
5. Make a clear DRAWING of each specimens and colour the drawings at least one page per specimen. Identify the specimen (using inaturalist) and write the following information:
a. Where did you find it?
b. What were the abiotic conditions where it was found? ( full sun, part sun, shade...wet soil, dry soil, leaf litter, ).
c. Tell me about its life history if it is an animal
d. Tell me something about it if it is a plant.
CARE IS TAKEN IN DRAWING and observing out of 25
22-25 you make exceptional, careful drawings with clean lines. It is beautifully done and neat, it's in colour. This stands out.
20-21 you make exceptional careful drawings. This is beautifully done and neat and in colour.
16-19 your drawings are complete and neat
5-12 you needed more time as your drawings seem a bit rushed and incomplete.
