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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...
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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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Meet Kayuma, a fishing cat whose story at Riverbanks Zoo and Garden is part of a much larger effort to protect his species. Discover the adaptations that make fishing cats at home around water and how...
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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...
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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...
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As the sun sets, the ACE basin reveals its secrets. Armed with a flashlight, her camera, curiosity, and enough corny jokes to last us years, Hyatt Mamoun meets the lowcountry’s nocturnal critters as...