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Source: Georgia Aquarium
Resource Type: Lesson Plan
Students will learn why scientists classify animals and will classify the animals living in kelp forests, with an emphasis on how California sea lions interact with their environment.
Skill: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to investigate the diversity of living organisms and how they can be compared scientifically.
Georgia Standard: S7L1
Source: Georgia Aquarium
Resource Type: Lesson Plan
Students will explore how classification is used to identify an organism.
Skill: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to investigate the diversity of living organisms and how they can be compared scientifically.
Georgia Standard: S7L1
Can You Extract DNA From a Strawberry?
Source: PBS Learning Media
Resource Type: Activity
All living things store genetic information in DNA, but can you actually extract DNA from a plant? Learn how to squish the DNA out of a strawberry! Try it yourself with our step-by-step instructions and guided scientific questions available in the downloadable support materials, or on the Science-U.org website.
Skill: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to explain how organisms reproduce either sexually or asexually and transfer genetic information to determine the traits of their offspring.
Georgia Standard: S7L3
Georgia Forests Virtual Learning Journey
Source: Georgia Public Broadcasting
Resource Type: Activity
STEAM Challenge #1: Food Chain Lanterns
Skill: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to examine the interdependence of organisms with one another and their environments.
Georgia Standard: S7L4
Source: Georgia Aquarium
Resource Type: Lesson Plan
Students will discuss how limiting factors such as predation, resource availability, and competition impact California sea lion populations.
Skill: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to examine the interdependence of organisms with one another and their environments.
Georgia Standard: S7L4
Source: PBS Learning Media
Resource Type: Activity
Science-U campers find out what's on an owl's menu when they dissect a ball of bones and fur called an "owl pellet" - a regurgitated chunk of undigested food that is part of an owl's digestive process. Can you determine what an owl eats by dissecting an owl pellet? Try it yourself with step-by-step instructions and guided scientific questions available in the downloadable handout, or at the Science U website.
Skill: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to examine the interdependence of organisms with one another and their environments.
Georgia Standard: S7L4
Georgia Forests Virtual Learning Journey
Source: Georgia Public Broadcasting
Resource Type: Lessons
These lessons focus on the forest and how the pieces are dependent on one another.
Skill: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to examine the interdependence of organisms with one another and their environments.
Georgia Standard: S7L4
When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time
Source: PBS Learning Media
Resource Type: Videos
These videos take students on a journey through the fossil record and introduce patterns that let scientists know that these organisms share common ancestors.
Skill: Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information from multiple sources to explain the theory of evolution of living organisms through inherited characteristics.
Georgia Standard: S7L5