This is an optional video if you are interested in the origin of the DIY Textbook
Since Zoology is the study of animals you are required to spend 3 weeks taking care of a class pet. Each of the 3 weeks is worth 10 points. You have until the end of the semester to complete your 3 weeks.
Animalia is a Eukaryotic kingdom
Some animal characteristics
-Multicellular
-Have muscles and the ability to move (motile)
-Are heterotrophic (Cannot make their own food. Have to eat other organisms)
-Carnivore, Ditritivore, insectivore, Herbivore, Omnivore, etc.
Watch this short video on what is an animal. Create a box in your sketchbook, title it "What is an Animal?" and take notes. Include an image in your sketchbook.
Class Activity: (In Classroom)
Get into groups. We are going to do a little activity about animals
In your group you are going to write down the name of an animal on a post-it note
-Do this for 16 animals
-Once every group is done come place each of your post-its under the group the animal belongs to.
-Now looking at our distribution of animals we are going to estimate how many species exist in each of the groups
-Time for the answers
-By the end of this semester you will be experts on all of these groups of animals
(Online)
In your breakout rooms you are going to create a collaborative poster. On that poster I want you to write down the names of 16 animals. Then we will come back to the main room and look at each poster. Together we will categorize the animals.