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With this hands-on, engaging activity, students color, cut out, and assemble a hands-on paper model while learning to identify and explain the anatomical structures and functions of the sponge. Use the eco-friendly model as a dissection-free exploration, a pre-dissection study tool, or a summative assessment for comparative anatomy. Comes with additional supporting digital resources. This is a 1-year subscription license for 1 individual teacher.

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With this hands-on, engaging activity, students color, cut out, and assemble a hands-on paper model while learning to identify and explain the anatomical structures and functions of the sponge. Use the eco-friendly model as a dissection-free exploration, a pre-dissection study tool, or even as a summative assessment for comparative anatomy. The model is created from downloadable, printable templates, provided in both blackline and color. Additional supporting digital resources include a downloadable, editable PowerPoint® presentation with bell work activities, instructions, notes, and an embedded answer key, along with non-editable PDF handouts of guided readings about the sponge and its anatomy, graphic organizers, extension questions, and an answer key—all easily accessed at CarolinaScienceOnline.com, Carolina's easy-to-use learning management tool. Use the resources in a variety of ways: simply print and distribute, display them in class, and/or assign them to your students through CarolinaScienceOnline.com. This is a 1-year subscription license for 1 individual teacher.

Students will:

• Use the PowerPoint® presentation to color in their table and sea sponge organs
• Use the provided reading about sponge anatomy and their prior knowledge to determine the function of 13 sponge structures
• Cut out the sponge and its structures
• Glue together the Scienstructable sponge model using directions in the PowerPoint® file
• Use the table and the Scienstructable sponge model to learn about sea sponge anatomy

What's included in this 2-day lesson:

• 14 editable PowerPoint® slides with bell work, instructions, and embedded answer key to the handouts
• Guided reading PDF (non-editable) containing information about the phylum Porifera with descriptions of location, structure, and function of each organ
• Sponge template (non-editable) in blackline and in color

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• This product is to be used by the original purchaser only.
• Intended for classroom and personal use only.
• Copying for more than 1 teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited.
• This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view.

Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in the PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license.

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