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Spend time exploring the various animals, and have fun. Introduce the proper way to touch the Animals. Explain the “Detective” approach to animals by looking for CLUES. Explore the clues we can use to determine Prey from Predator. Look at the animals to determine which group they belong to. Explore the food chain as a concept. Using Prey and Predator, where do the animals fit in? What role do we play in the Food Chain? What are the essential elements of the Eco System? We will list them and diagram how they all fit together. Explore their habitats to see how they function as an Eco System. Explore how animals have adapted to their environment. What unique Adaptations have animals had to make to survive in their habitat? How have they adapted to avoid their Predators in order to survive? Don’t make yourself crazy! List all the physical attributes of each to find the answer. Don’t make yourself crazy! List all the physical attributes of each to find the answer.An animal that is active at dawn and dusk.An animal that is active or awake during the day time.It means to have a double life. Amphibians generally spend part of their time on land, but they do not have the adaptations to an entirely terrestrial existence. Amphibians are cold-blooded, smooth-skinned vertebrate of the class; Amphibia that characteristically hatches as an aquatic larva with gills. The larva then transforms into an adult having air-breathing lungs.Amphibian order without a tail (Frog or Toad)Amphibian order with a tail (Salamander, or Newt)Amphibian order with no feet (Worm like with eyes that can barely distinguish daylight from nighttime: Caecilian. There are about150 different species)This is the nasal tissue that determines the smelling capability of an animal.They are usually branched and are dropped each year.They are usually not branched and are not dropped. They grow constantly like a finger nail.Able to grasp with, as a tail for the Prehensile tailed Skink, or the tongue of a Giraffe.Produces heat from with in.Cannot produce heat from with in and needs an outside heat source in order to absorb warmth. A cold-blooded Oviparous or Ovoviviparous vertebrate of the class; Reptilia. They have an external covering of scales or horny plates and breathing by means of lungs.An order of Reptiles including Turtles and Tortoises that contains over 300 species.An order of Reptiles including Snakes and Lizards that contains over 7,600 species.An order of Reptiles that contains a total of 22 species. It includes the Crocodiles (fourteen species); Gavials (one species); and Alligators (seven species).This is the study of live and living things.PHYSIOLOGICAL – Body processesMORPHOLOGICAL – Shape and body structureBEHAVIORAL – The way it actsAn animal that produces eggs that hatch after being laid.An animal that produces eggs that hatch before being laid. Click on the above Link for changes and updates to the 
