Choose Your Own Chapter!Top of Page

How do we cover Chapters 10, 11, and 12 in three weeks?
Divide and conquer!
  • You choose which topic you'd like to focus on: plants, invertebrates, or vertebrates
  • In a group of 1-4 students, you'll work on an investigative project that will probably take all three weeks.
  • Study the vocab words for your chapter (they are already in Quizlet!)
  • Make an illustrated vocab card for one of the words in your chapter
  • Do workbook pages for the 5 sections of your chapter
  • Do worksheets for the 5 sections of your chapter
  • Take a 10-point quiz on each of the 5 sections of your chapter
  • Take a crossword-style vocabulary test for your chapter
Listen up in class for all you need to know to ace this unit
(and learn some cool stuff)!
 

Key Questions for Chapter 11Top of Page

What is an Animal?
  • How are animal bodies typically organized?
  • What are four major functions of animals?
  • What is symmetry?
  • How are animals classified?
Sponges and Cnidarians
  • What are the main characteristics of sponges?
  • What are the main characteristics of cnidarians?
Worms and Mollusks
  • What are the main characteristics of worms?
  • What are the main characteristics of each phylum of worms?
  • What are the main groups of mollusks?
  • What are the main characteristics of mollusks?
Arthropods
  • What are the general characteristics of arthropods?
  • What are the distinguishing structures of crustaceans, arachnids, centipedes and millipedes, and insects?
Echinoderms
  • What are the main characteristics of echinoderms?
  • What are the major groups of echinoderms?

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