How Animals Change their Environment

1. How Animals Change their Environment Elizabeth Buckholtz TPS Science Support

2. Start your concept map. How do living things affect nonliving things?

3. Beavers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:American_Beaver.jpg

4. Beavers http://students.cis.uab.edu/saccursi/project/dam.html

5. Beavers http://www.anacostiaws.org/news/blog/busy-beavers-flood-local-parking-lot

6. Beavers http://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/beaver_damage/conflicts.shtml

7. http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/176486/enlarge

8. Beavers http://shelledy.mesa.k12.co.us/staff/computerlab/ColoradoLifeZones_Riparian_Adaptations.html

9. Beavers http://arnebeckwinter.blogspot.com/2011_04_03_archive.html

10. Beavers http://www.lakesidebeavers.co.uk/wp/fun/

11. Beavers http://stevegreerphotograph.photoshelter.com/image/I0000PMtRJkITYJs

12. Beavers http://blogs.yourdiscovery.com/.m/whats-new/2009/10/ancient-giant-beavers-didnt-have-a-taste-for-wood.html

13. Beavers

14. Beavers http://www.martinezbeavers.org/wordpress/page/2/

15. Beavers http://www.audubonguides.com/article.html?id=96

16. Beavers http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/beaver-dam.htm

17. Resources for teachers • Lesson plan on the Needs of Living things which includes information about how animals affect the nonliving environment.

18. Lichens

19. Lichens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Parmeliopsis_ambigua_-_lichen_-_gr%C3%BCnliche_Schneepegel-Flechte.jpg

20. Lichens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LogLichen.jpg

21. Lichens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:N2_Lichen.jpg

22. Lichens

23. Lichens

24. Teacher Resources Contains Printable, leveled books about lichens.

25. Ants

26. Amazing Ants http://www.pestworldforkids.org/ants.html

27. Ants http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mY1UA9K/red+entrance+-++bull+ants+nest

28. Ants http://www.123rf.com/photo_8178685_close-up-of-ant-carrying-seed.html

29. Ants https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSFtt5aen5c57q4aG2OLFjPg5Y4HSEDMcAUarGURvKj3bplBytQ

30. Ants http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/tech1253.html

31. Ants http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/14126

32. Ants http://blogs.discovery.com/animal_news/2011/01/when-teeth-go-bad-leaf-cutter-ants-call-it-quits.html

33. Ants http://www.toledozoo.org/animals/cam_ants.html

34. Teacher Resources • Lesson plan (K-5) to help students learn how ants create different types of colonies depending on their environment.

35. Teaching Resources • Thematic units, experiments about ants. http://www.classbrain.com/artmovies/publish/article_20.shtml

36. Worms

37. Worms http://www.worm-farming.com/worm-facts.html

38. Worms http://urbanext.illinois.edu/worms/live/index.html

39. Worms

40. Worms http://www.songbirdgarden.com/store/info/infoview.asp?documentid=214

41. Worms for composting http://www.pistilsnursery.com/worm-composting

42. Teacher Resources Everything you want to know about worms. The site calls it a game but it is a power interactive instructional resource about worms. http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Vermi/Game/menu.html

43. Teacher Resources • 48 pg PDF full of great cross curricular worm activities. http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Publications/Schools/56001007.pdf

44. Teacher Resources An online story about an worm and a farmer. http://tolweb.org/treehouses/?treehouse_id=3330

45. Teacher REsources http://www.moppetgames.com/math-games/play/math-worm/

46. Worm activities, experiment to determine what worms will eat, build a worm condo, worm observations. Teacher Resources http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/family/worm-activities.htm

47. Teacher Resources • Worm facts, videos of a worm’s heart beating, a worm hatching, interview with a worm farmer. click here http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/worm/