Unit 4C, Classifying Living Things Unit Project: Making a Field Guide to Local Plants or Animals You will collect information about local plants or animals and then create an illustrated field guide.   Project Link (Chapter 1, page C13) You will be making a field guide to local plants or animals. With other students, make a list of the plants or animals to include in your guide. You might want to list both the common name(s) and the scientific name(s). Decide what other information about the plants or animals should be presented in your field guide. Internet Links Animal List National Museum of Natural History: Mammal Photographs http://www.nmnh.si.edu/vert/mammals/mamphoto.html SeaWorld/Busch Gardens: Animal Bytes http://www.seaworld.org/AnimalBytes/animal_bytes.html National Audubon Society: WatchList http://web1.audubon.org/science/species/watchlist/ Field Guides Audubon Bookstore Online: The National Audubon Society Essential Nature Library http://www.audubon.org/market/publish/ Project FeederWatch Canada: Audio and Field Guides http://birds.cornell.edu/pfw/ Nature Photography A Guide to Ultimate Wildlife Watching http://www.gorp.com/wwldlife/ultimate.htm Student Resources Field Guide Entry Form Field Guide Research Suggestions Writing A Business Letter Formulario de guía Guía de campo sugerencias para la investigacíon Escribir una carta comercial Project Link (Chapter 1, page C31) Draw or take photographs of plants or animals for your field guide. Think about ways to classify the plants or animals that you have chosen. Then decide how to organize the pictures and the information that you have collected. Internet Links Classifying Animals Public Broadcasting Online Galápagos Islands: Taxonomic Fun http://www.pbs.org/saf/5_cool/galapagos/g42_tax.html University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: Animal Diversity Web http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/index.html The Learning Kingdom: Gaggle http://www.LearningKingdom.com/gaggle Classifying Plants Access Excellence: Classification of Plants http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/Ethnobotany/page3.html University of California, Berkeley Museum of Paleontology: Introduction to the Plantae http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/plants/plantae.html Student Resources Animal Classification Plant Classification Clasificación de los animales Clasificación de las plantas Project Link (Chapter 2, page C47) Think about the body parts of the plants and animals in your guide. How have these parts allowed the plants and animals to survive? How does the behavior of each animal help it to survive? Consider what each animal eats and where it lives. Explore ways to share this information in an interesting way in your field guide. Internet Links Animal Adaptations The Oakland Zoo: Oakland Zoo Animals http://www.oaklandzoo.org/meet_the_animals National Geographic—Cats: Muscles http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/cats/m1.html Public Broadcasting Online—Galapagos Islands: Wildlife on the Islands http://www.pbs.org/saf/5_cool/galapagos/g23_biology.html The Exploratorium: The Amazing, Adaptable Frog http://www.exploratorium.edu/frogs/mainstory/index.html Plant Adaptions Missouri Botanical Garden The Evergreen Project Adventures: Tropical Rain Forest Plants http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/plants/index.htm Missouri Botanical Garden The Evergreen Project Adventures: Tundra Plants http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/tundra/plants/index.htm Missouri Botanical Garden The Evergreen Project Adventures: Taiga Plants http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/taiga/plants/index.htm Missouri Botanical Garden The Evergreen Project Adventures: Plants of the Desert http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/desert/tplants.htm Missouri Botanical Garden The Evergreen Project Adventures: Grassland Plants http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/grasslnd/plants/index.htm Insect Photography Bugbios: Entomological Database of Very Cool Bugs http://www.bugbios.com/entophiles/index.html Las arañas http://www.sedl.org/scimath/pasopartners/spiders/SPanish.html Project Link (Chapter 2, page C53) Decide on a format to present the information that you have gathered. Think about whether you want to compile a booklet, make bulletin-board displays, make audiotapes, or use another format. Internet Links Examples of Field Guides The Royal Ontario Museum Explore Ontario's Biodiversity: Field Guides http://romlx6.rom.on.ca/ontario/fieldguides.html