Identify structures used by different plants and animals to meet their basic energy requirements 0307.3.3

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1. Build Your Own Caterpillar - Build a caterpillar with the tools for surviving in its environment. Look at the environment and then choose the parts that will help your caterpillar have the best chance for survival.
2. Corn and Photosynthesis - efficient photosynthetic system and a long period of seasonal growth allow corn to produce high yields (reading level is a bit high, but this is short and succinct)
3. Photosynthesis - the process by which plants use energy from sunlight to produce sugar (high reading level, but a large number of really good illustrations)
4. Photosynthesis animation
5. Photosynthesis - how life keeps going...and going...and going...
6. Photosynthesis: Don't "Leaf" Out Fall's Most Valuable Lesson! - (a lesson planning article from Education World) They have raked up a pile of activities for you to "leaf" through.
7. Virtual Photosynthesis Experiments - (if you have projection, use this as a whole class activity) on-line virtual experiments with Dr. Gene Splicer which show some of the ways scientists study photosynthesis
8. Why Do Leaves Change Color in the Fall? - To answer that question, you first have to understand what leaves are and what they do.

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