Diatom crafts: box or ornaments
Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop
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NGSS4-LS1-1
NGSS5-LS2-1
NGSS2-LS4-1
NGSS3-LS4-2
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Pages
6 pages
Ellen McHenry's Basement Workshop
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Description
Oceanography for Christmas? Decorate your holiday tree with diatoms!
Diatoms are algae that make their own glass shells from silicon they take from the water. They build shells in snowflake-like geometric designs, fitting a top valve onto a bottom valve, like tiny clams.
This download includes a diatom identification page (with 17 types of diatoms) and patterns to make two different crafts. One is a triangle-shaped box that students can color, cut and tape. The other is a set of colored diatom ornaments that just need to be glued together so that both sides are decorative, then add a hanger.
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6 pages
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NGSS4-LS1-1
Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. Examples of structures could include thorns, stems, roots, colored petals, heart, stomach, lung, brain, and skin. Assessment is limited to macroscopic structures within plant and animal systems.
NGSS5-LS2-1
Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. Emphasis is on the idea that matter that is not food (air, water, decomposed materials in soil) is changed by plants into matter that is food. Examples of systems could include organisms, ecosystems, and the Earth. Assessment does not include molecular explanations.
NGSS2-LS4-1
Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats. Emphasis is on the diversity of living things in each of a variety of different habitats. Assessment does not include specific animal and plant names in specific habitats.
NGSS3-LS4-2
Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing. Examples of cause and effect relationships could be plants that have larger thorns than other plants may be less likely to be eaten by predators; and, animals that have better camouflage coloration than other animals may be more likely to survive and therefore more likely to leave offspring.
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