Goals

• Understand biodiversity of world's biomes
• Learn about plants and animals of a specific biome
• Build a scale model of one animal from the biome

Steps

• Research plants and animals using IRC and the Internet
• Create ten critter cards
• Hand in critter cards by due dates
• Design scale model of assigned animal
• Set up science classroom for open house

Internet Research Tips

• Visit All about Animals for a listing of due dates, what you need to find out, about each animal, and helpful Web sites to use
• Visit the individual biome Web sites for specific resources for this year's assigned biome
• When Google is used, follow this keyword search technique +"common name" +"scientific name"

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