Unit 5A, Systems in Living Things Unit Project: Living Systems Museum Display Students will design and build a museum display that compares the systems in a plant, a vertebrate, and an invertebrate. Project Link 1 (Chapter 1, p. A27) Select a plant, an invertebrate, and a vertebrate. Research where the organisms live and what the animals eat. Then find out how museums set up plant and animal displays. Internet Links Vertebrates Franklin Institute: Animals--Vertebrates http://www.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/animals.html The Oakland Zoo http://www.oaklandzoo.org/ Wired@school: Something Froggy http://sln.fi.edu/fellows/fellow9/jun99/index.html Zoológico virtual http://www.arconet.es/users/marta/default.htm Invertebrates Spencer Entomological Museum: Bug of the Month http://www.sitegeist.com/insecta/bom.htm Las arañas http://www.sedl.org/scimath/pasopartners/spiders/SPanish.html Museums The Franklin Institute Science Museum http://sln.fi.edu/ The Franklin Institute Science Museum Animals--Vertebrates http://www.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/animals.html Boston Museum of Science: Exhibit Shows http://www.mos.org/exhibits_shows Project Link 2 (Chapter 2, p. A37) Choose a plant and research the plant system that allows for gas exchange. Research the respiratory systems of the invertebrate and vertebrate you chose. Create a display that compares these three systems. Make posters and build three-dimensional models of each of the systems for a museum display. Internet Links Oxygen-Delivering Systems National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution: Dept. of Vertebrate Zoology http://www.nmnh.si.edu/vert/ Science Learning Network: Oxygen Delivering Systems http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/systems/respiration.html Project Link 3 (Chapter 3, p. A55) Explore the transport system of the plant you are researching. Then find out about the circulatory system of the animals you are researching. Compare the plant's transport system with the animal's circulatory systems. Create posters and three-dimensional models of each of these systems for your museum display. Internet Links Transport Systems National Aquarium in Baltimore: Animals—Species, Who They Are http://www.aqua.org/animals.html Science Learning Network: The Circle of Blood http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/systems/circulation.html Árboles de Costa Rica http://www.cientec.or.cr/ambiente/arboles/arboles.html Student Resources Creating a Museum Display Building a Model of an Air Sac Crear una exhibición de museo Construir un modelo de un saco de aire Project Link 4 (Chapter 4, p. A81) Find out about the life cycles of the plant and animals you are researching. Show how the life cycles are alike and different. Then make posters and three-dimensional models of each of their life cycles. Set up a panel of judges to judge the displays. Give awards based on different categories, such as "Best Designed" and "Most Informative." Invite guests to visit the display and learn from it. Internet Links Life Cycles University of Illinois Extension--The Great Plant Escape: What is the life cycle of a plant? http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/case1/case1.html Canadian Fishing Company: Life of the Sockeye Salmon http://www.canfisco.com/socklife.html National Aquarium, Baltimore: Animal-- Species http://www.aqua.org/animals.html American Museum of Natural History Human Aging: How We Grow http://www.amnh.org/enews/aging/a7.html