Today in class we discussed different lifestyles. Organisms can be plankton and spend their lives floating and drifting. Nekton means they can swim. Benthic organisms, or organisms that spend their time on the bottom can be attached, can crawl, walk, and some swim - but if they swim they swim along the bottom and spend most of their time resting on the bottom.
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| Michelle and Harley are racing back |
Students participated in a relay sort of different organisms and rode scooters in the relay - you know the scooters they loved in elementary school. Awesome. Kids that participated loved it, kids that didn't participate maybe have grown up to fast. Students rolled down the hall and dropped cards into boxes based on whether they thought the organisms belonged to the plankton, nekton, or benthos. In the end, Team A finished the fastest, but also beat team B by earning more correct points.
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| I think this is Nate and Kaitlin |
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| Delayfayette and Corrin were laughing as they rolled to the finish |
Next we discussed eating. Producers don't eat - they can make their own food. Producers starts with P and so does Plants and PhytoPlankton.
Herbivores eat plants, Carnivores eat meat, and Planktivores eat plankton. Students worked on a worksheet sorting organisms into their varying lifestyles and eating preferences to finish class.
We technically finished class with a little Blue Planet - watching orcas practically beach themselves in an attempt (a successful attempt to eat baby seal lions on the beach). :)
3 comments:
This activty was so much fun. Especially watching everyone trying to beat the person beside them. It was intersting learning about what certain animals eat.
- Morgan Allen
This activity related to the locomotive capabilities of marine life, and was studied using varied methods of locomotion. I see what you did there oh clever Overseer. Very wise indeed.
- Michael The Subservient peasant boy.
this activity was by far the most fun i have ever had learning about how animals swim or don't swim and where in the ocean they are located. we had three boxes at the end of the hall way that said benthos ,plankton and nekton. then we had cards with animals/organisms on them to put in the box. ex. see turtle goes in the nekton because it can swim, and coral goes in the benthos because its attached to the sea floor, then zooplankton and photoplankton go in plankton because they can't swim they just float near the surface.
-Harley Deanna Elrod-
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