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Students begin by predicting what the fishing cat eats, then watch the video to gather evidence about its prey and hunting style. Using illustrated organism cards from a wetland habitat, they build a...
Mammals
Mammals are warm-blooded vertebrates with hair. This group include humans and all other animals.
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Students begin with the video, collecting evidence about what the fishing cat eats and how it hunts. They then become the food chain themselves, passing yarn from the sun to a plant to an animal to...
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This is a list of all applicable South Carolina K-12 science standards that can be applied to the Fishing Cat video and science materials and lessons.
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This handout goes along with the "Fishing Cat: Built for the Water (Grades 3-5)" lesson.
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This handout goes along with the lesson "Fishing Cat: Adaptation and Conservation (9-12)".
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This handout goes with the "Fishing Cat: Adaptation and Conservation (Grades 6-8)" lesson.
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This lesson uses the Fishing Cat: Zoo Minutes video and companion 360 Habitat Tour to help students connect structure-function relationships to natural selection and ecosystem interdependence...
Lesson
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This lesson introduces middle school students to the connection between an organism's physical structures and behaviors and its ability to survive in a specific habitat, using the fishing cat as a...
Video
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Back during the Paleogene period, an ancient family of odontocete whales once lived in the seas of southeastern North America; almost exclusively in the South Carolina area! These whales were called...
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Trust us, if these prehistoric animals were still alive today? You would want to keep your distance! Entelodonts earned their nicknames "Hell Pig" and "Terminator Pig" for being aggressive hunters and...