How Animals Change their
Environment
Elizabeth Buckholtz
TPS Science Support
Start your concept map.
How do living
things affect
nonliving things?
Beavers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:American_Beaver.jpg
Beavers
http://students.cis.uab.edu/saccursi/project/dam.html
Beavers
http://www.anacostiaws.org/news/blog/busy-beavers-flood-local-parking-lot
Beavers
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/beaver_damage/conflicts.shtml
http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/176486/enlarge
Beavers
http://shelledy.mesa.k12.co.us/staff/computerlab/ColoradoLifeZones_Riparian_Adaptations.html
Beavers
http://arnebeckwinter.blogspot.com/2011_04_03_archive.html
Beavers
http://www.lakesidebeavers.co.uk/wp/fun/
Beavers
http://stevegreerphotograph.photoshelter.com/image/I0000PMtRJkITYJs
Beavers
http://blogs.yourdiscovery.com/.m/whats-new/2009/10/ancient-giant-beavers-didnt-have-a-taste-for-wood.html
Beavers
Beavers
http://www.martinezbeavers.org/wordpress/page/2/
Beavers
http://www.audubonguides.com/article.html?id=96
Beavers
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/beaver-dam.htm
Resources for teachers
• Lesson plan on the Needs of Living things
which includes information about how
animals affect the nonliving environment.
Lichens
Lichens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Parmeliopsis_ambigua_-_lichen_-_gr%C3%BCnliche_Schneepegel-Flechte.jpg
Lichens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LogLichen.jpg
Lichens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:N2_Lichen.jpg
Lichens
Lichens
Teacher Resources
Contains Printable, leveled books about lichens.
Ants
Amazing Ants
http://www.pestworldforkids.org/ants.html
Ants
http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mY1UA9K/red+entrance+-++bull+ants+nest
Ants
http://www.123rf.com/photo_8178685_close-up-of-ant-carrying-seed.html
Ants
https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSFtt5aen5c57q4aG2OLFjPg5Y4HSEDMcAUarGURvKj3bplBytQ
Ants
http://www.whatsonxiamen.com/tech1253.html
Ants
http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/14126
Ants
http://blogs.discovery.com/animal_news/2011/01/when-teeth-go-bad-leaf-cutter-ants-call-it-quits.html
Ants
http://www.toledozoo.org/animals/cam_ants.html
Teacher Resources
• Lesson plan (K-5) to help students learn how
ants create different types of colonies
depending on their environment.
Teaching Resources
• Thematic units, experiments about ants.
http://www.classbrain.com/artmovies/publish/article_20.shtml
Worms
Worms
http://www.worm-farming.com/worm-facts.html
Worms
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/worms/live/index.html
Worms
Worms
http://www.songbirdgarden.com/store/info/infoview.asp?documentid=214
Worms for composting
http://www.pistilsnursery.com/worm-composting
Teacher Resources
Everything you want to know about worms. The
site calls it a game but it is a power interactive
instructional resource about worms.
http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Vermi/Game/menu.html
Teacher Resources
• 48 pg PDF full of great cross curricular worm
activities.
http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Publications/Schools/56001007.pdf
Teacher Resources
An online story about an worm and a farmer.
http://tolweb.org/treehouses/?treehouse_id=3330
Teacher REsources
http://www.moppetgames.com/math-games/play/math-worm/
Teacher Resources
• Worm activities,
experiment to
determine what
worms will eat,
build a worm
condo, worm
observations.
http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/family/worm-activities.htm
Teacher Resources
• Worm facts, videos of a worm’s heart beating,
a worm hatching, interview with a worm
farmer.
click here
http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/worm/