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Science and Math Informal Learning Educators (SMILE) Abstract:
In this outdoor activity/game, learners use thermometers to simulate how lizards survive in habitats with extreme temperatures. Learners are challenged to keep their thermometer-lizard "alive" by keeping its temperature within a five-degree safe range. While regulating their pretend lizards' temperatures, learners must move the lizards through a course of sun and shade, trying to reach the finish first. Through the game and followup discussion, learners come to understand different ways that exotherms, or "cold-blooded" animals, regulate their body temperatures and how they differ from endotherms, or "warm-blooded" animals, such as humans. Activity must be done on a warm, sunny day in a site with areas of deep shade, bright sun, and broken or partial shade.
- Subject:
- Education, Life Science, Ecology, Forestry and Agriculture, Mathematics, Chemistry, Geoscience, Physics, Space Science
- Level:
- Upper Primary, Middle School, High School
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab, Game, Lesson Plan, Simulation
- Author:
- Lawrence Hall of Science
- Provider:
- Science and Math Informal Learning Educators (SMILE)
- Provider Set:
- SMILE Pathway: Science and Math Activities in One Search
- Date Added:
- 11/09/2014
- Language:
- English
- Media Format:
- Text/HTML
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