Sharks

Resources:
-butcher paper
-computers with internet access
-field trip to conservation site
-guest researcher/conservationist
-cast for fossils to be made
-plaster of paris
-4 sets of "excavation tools"
-4 locations where the "fossils" can be buried without being disturbed
-pictures of extinct sharks and modern sharks
-baby dogfish
-scalpel
-pins
-dissection tray
-scissors
-glue
-photocopies of 20 images of organisms
-markers

1. http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/courses/bio204/lab3_frameset.htm
Labeled pictures of a dissected dogfish.
2. http://www.sharks.com
General information about all species of sharks (for project) also includes
information about dogfish sharks.
3. http://www.amnh.org/learn/pd/sharks_rays/rfl_dissection/
Videos of dissections to use before students start dissectng.
4. www.elasmo-research.org/index.html
This site provides pictures of extinct and modern sharks for the students to see
and compare.
5. http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/habitat/habitat.html
This website would serve as a resource for teacher background on the different
ecosystems, biomes, and habitats.
6.
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/hudson/grg360g/EGIS/final_project/spring04_projects/web_waters_oliver/Hydrilla%20in%20Lake%20Austin.htm
This websiste would serve as one of the resources the student would use if they
were assigned the hydrilla problem for their food web project.
7. http://www.bite-back.com/sharks/
This website would serve as one of the resources the student would use if they
were assigned the extinction of shakrs for their food web project.

8. http://www.sharkattacks.com/prehistoric.htm
This website is a background for a teacher on the prehistoric sharks.